House Speaker Mike Johnson briefly wanted to add search warrant requirements to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a controversial spy program.
This is the same law that was used against President Trump in the Russiagate hoax.
But now Speaker Johnson has gone back on his word.
So what changed Johnson’s mind?
Just a meeting with the deep state. that’s all. watch:
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“Completely informed”
Johnson previously acknowledged that he witnessed various abuses by the FBI during testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. But again, it only took one session to get him back to normal.
“I encourage all members to attend confidential briefings and listen and watch everything so they can assess the situation for themselves,” Johnson said on Thursday. “I think some views have changed both ways, but that’s part of the process. You have to be fully understand situation.
On Wednesday, 19 Republicans joined 209 Democrats in blocking reforms to Section 702 of FISA, which allows U.S. intelligence agencies to collect text messages, phone calls, emails and other electronic communications of foreigners in foreign countries.
The problem is that Americans’ data has been captured in the past.
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push back
Many were unsatisfied with Johnson’s explanation and still wanted a search warrant, as required by the Fourth Amendment.
Especially Edward Snowden. “This is a classic case of congressional arrest,” the prominent whistleblower wrote on
Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz said on his podcast: “I told the speaker, my friend, let’s make him the speaker so that the speaker’s role will be more like Mike Johnson. We’re not making Mike Johnson the speaker. To make Mike Johnson more of a speaker.
“We were on the Judiciary Committee with Mike Johnson. He sat next to me on that committee for seven years. Frankly, Mike Johnson made the arguments that we made on this [FISA] Discussion, probably better than we can do,” Gates said. “If from an information standpoint, as a speaker, he’s faced with a situation that’s so persuasive that it would lead him to reverse course, then I think he has an obligation to convince his colleagues on the Judiciary Committee.”
Former Republican congressman and current U.S. Senate candidate Justin Amash has his own ideas.
Sharing Johnson’s remarks about I was given classified briefings from a different angle: They said if I didn’t support FISA, I wouldn’t be the spokesperson anymore.
That sounds like how it works in Washington.
Matt Gaetz has a point. If Republicans supported Mike Johnson for speaker against official Washington, why did the new speaker almost immediately support the establishment?
Despite the media hype about how Trump “controls” congressional Republicans, he does not match the power of the deep state.
