'I Don't Trust The Government And Neither Should You!': Marjorie Taylor Greene Demands End To FISA

5 months ago

On the House floor, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) opposed the reauthorization of FISA.

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00:00Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The question today is, do you trust the government?

00:05We often hear the claim that it's for your safety, and any time the government tells

00:10us it's for your safety, the American people really question what that means.

00:17The same intelligence community that spied on President Trump's campaign has been deeply

00:21invested in reauthorizing FISA, and the same intelligence community that wrote the letter

00:27lying saying that the Hunter Biden's laptop is not real, deeply wants FISA reauthorized.

00:34These are also the same people in the intelligence community that abused FISA and spied on hundreds

00:41of thousands of Americans, and I would argue they will continue to do it.

00:46These are also the same people who oppose the FBI having to get a warrant before they

00:52can search Americans' data, yet we have a clause in this bill today that protects members

00:58of Congress and the FBI before they can search members of Congress' data.

01:06It's always the rules for thee, but not for me.

01:13The problem is that this process to reauthorize FISA has received more effort than Congress

01:21has actually done in curing the border.

01:25And if the government really cared about protecting Americans, then they would shut the border

01:30down and mass deport terrorists out of our country, and criminal illegal aliens.

01:36But they're not doing that.

01:37No, they're telling us we've got to reauthorize FISA so the government can continue to spy

01:42on Americans.

01:44There's been a lot of games played here in the swamp this past week when it comes to

01:48authorizing this bill.

01:50We were even told on Wednesday that FISA was completely stopped, yet here we are voting

01:57on virtually the same rule and virtually the same text.

02:01The only change has been from a five-year sunset to a two-year sunset.

02:08I yield additional 30 seconds to the gentlelady from Georgia.

02:12Gentlelady's recognized for 30 seconds.

02:14Thank you.

02:15I would argue that changing that time frame does nothing.

02:19If Congress wants to change FISA to protect Americans or get rid of it altogether, we

02:25can do that.

02:26We make the laws.

02:27So the question today is, do you trust the Department of Justice to hold the FBI accountable?

02:32Because I don't.

02:34And the warrants aren't added to the bill text unless we pass the amendment after this

02:39vote and change the bill text.

02:43But a vote to change the bill text and add warrants will not get me to pass the final

02:49bill to pass FISA because I don't trust the government and neither should you.

'I Don't Trust The Government And Neither Should You!': Marjorie Taylor Greene Demands End To FISA

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