00:00:00.000Hey everybody, a very important episode about FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as it goes in front of the House of Representatives.
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00:02:09.000Orwell demonstrated this probably the best of any author.
00:02:14.000And then, of course, the book 1984, there's so many different elements of the death of truth, the erosion of speech, the deterioration of private and intimate relationships to the end of 1984, where it sends chills down your spine, where eventually you worship Big Brother.
00:02:31.000But Big Brother is probably the most quoted and is the most understood concept of Orwell's magnum opus of 1984.
00:02:40.000And he demonstrates that there's this incredibly powerful quote, and I'm going to paraphrase it.
00:02:49.000I'm sure Blake can get it up rather quickly, which is, the best way to keep something from Big Brother is to not think it in the first place.
00:03:01.000You see, in the movie, in the book 1984, the movie is actually terrible, but in the book 1984, you see that there's your own ability to consciousness to have your own personal life to flourish.
00:03:15.000It deteriorates if the government can look over your shoulder and see everything you are doing, especially during a period of time where political dissidents are thrown into jail or attempted to be thrown into jail.
00:03:33.000I have here MSNBC on, just to kind of see what they're talking about.
00:03:36.000They are salivating about Trump's first trial on Monday.
00:03:41.000Excuse the graphic language, but Trump being in a criminal trial on Monday is the closest thing to legalize pornography that these people will have on cable television for them.
00:04:21.000Are they rushing to get FISA reauthorized without warrants because some desk worker at the FBI is able to query search Donald Trump's text messages and listen to his phone calls?
00:04:56.000The Department of Justice has lost all credibility the last couple of years, not just on the Carter page, Bruce and Nelly or Peter Struckstok Smirk, Lisa Page, not just all of those details that we saw regarding the Russiagate investigation, but this story also that interestingly is very hard to find now, for the reason the social media companies have buried this story.
00:05:45.000And it shows that the FBI, whether it be for our MAGA patriots and even with BLM protesters, they spy on people's devices, spy on people's communications.
00:07:57.000I want you to understand how much power these people have.
00:08:00.000They have been given back-end access to all telecommunication services and many of these supposed secret applications or private applications that you use.
00:08:23.000Tucker Carlson was spied on by our Intel agencies because Tucker Carlson was thinking of sitting down and interviewing Vladimir Putin, something he ended up doing.
00:08:36.000Why would you just not want to go get a warrant?
00:08:38.000Well, they write here, and the FBI writes in this op-ed, and Christopher Ray reiterates it.
00:08:44.000He says this: He said, all these terrorist attacks that were thwarted, and they're very light on details, but they're finally starting to pepper some of these.
00:08:52.000But interestingly enough, I don't quite understand how an accelerated FISA 702 reauthorization without a warrant includes this.
00:09:03.000But so they say, okay, there's some things here, including thwarted kidnapping plots and so on and so forth.
00:09:08.000They say, quote, this would have been impossible if the FBI had been required to stop and obtain prior court approval before acting.
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00:11:58.000And it is this argument from authority.
00:12:01.000They continually say, well, if you had a classified briefing like we did, you would understand.
00:12:09.000If you were able to get into a skiff, if you were able to get into a private room, then, you know, if you were able to get into a sensitive compartmented information facility, otherwise known as a skiff, your eyes will open.
00:12:21.000This form of persuasion, which is not persuasion at all, it's actually rooted in a logical fallacy arguing from authority.
00:13:47.000Essentially, saying, if members were just to go down to a skiff, they would all vote for this.
00:13:53.000If you knew what I knew and absent the details, because maybe he is right, but I don't trust the DC political class when they talk like this.
00:14:05.000In fact, I inherently distrust the D.C. political class.
00:14:08.000And when Speaker Johnson is in harmony with Merrick Garland and Christopher Wright and Joe Biden, I get even more skeptical about this.
00:14:18.000So this is the clip yesterday where Speaker Johnson says, well, you know, my eyes have been opened to the importance of 702.
00:14:33.000And we are willing as American patriots to trade sometimes safety for freedom.
00:14:38.000That is the trade that we have, by the way, for automobiles.
00:14:41.000You have the freedom to drive cars and people have car accidents.
00:14:45.000It is the trade that we have for private firearm ownership.
00:14:49.000But tell us specifically, with precision, why giving the FBI unchecked, warrantless surveillance, authority, and power is necessary for a free and prosperous society.
00:15:06.000When I was a member of this area, I saw all the abuses of the FBI, the terrible abuses over and over and over, the hundreds of thousands of abuses.
00:15:13.000And then when I became speaker, I went to the SCIF and got the confidential briefing from sort of the other perspective on that to understand the necessity of Section 702 of FISA and how important it is for national security and gave me a different perspective.
00:15:25.000So I encourage all the members to go to the classified briefing and hear all that and see it so they can evaluate the situation for themselves.
00:15:31.000And I think some opinions have changed both ways, but that's part of the process.
00:15:39.000So that you went down to the SCIF and you used to be against it, but then your eyes were open and you want members to go down there and that their opinion might change either way.
00:16:16.000And they have these PowerPoints, and it feels so legit.
00:16:19.000And then they play to the emotions that we were able to thwart a potential mass casualty event because we were able to intercept this text message.
00:16:27.000And then someone's asked the question: wait a second.
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00:19:27.000Our main contention is to get a warrant.
00:19:30.000Now, additionally, I will say, I want to know why FISA exists in the first place.
00:19:36.000Now, what do I mean why FISA exists in the first place?
00:19:39.000Well, it's a 1978 law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
00:19:44.000It's United States federal law that establishes procedures for the surveillance and collection of foreign intelligence on domestic soil.
00:19:51.000But here's where it starts to get sticky: we have so many foreigners here on our soil, illegal aliens, people on temporary green cards, people that are visitors, that the connective dots between a U.S. citizen and a foreigner is not hard to find.
00:20:09.000For example, if I am texting my friend in London, which I do, all of a sudden, my information, my text messages, could get looped into a FISA query.
00:20:21.000Now, the FBI, they do not want to have to answer to a warrant.
00:20:25.000Let's go all the way back to our roots.
00:20:28.000Let's forget all the chatter by the intel agencies.
00:20:31.000Let's forget the spin from Speaker Johnson.
00:20:33.000Let's go back to our roots because the Constitution was not written for the times.
00:20:38.000It was written to stand the test of time.
00:20:41.000And specifically, the Bill of Rights that was ratified in 1791, that was inspired by the Virginia Declaration of Rights, written and composed and authored by George Mason.
00:20:52.000And that then became the Bill of Rights.
00:20:54.000The Bill of Rights all address certain issues.
00:20:58.000The Bill of Rights actually is the solution to so many of the complaints that were found in the Declaration of Independence.
00:21:07.000The Declaration of Independence says the king is putting soldiers in our homes and the king is lying to us and abusing us.
00:21:13.000And so a lot of the details found in the Bill of Rights were answers to the problems of why we separated from the British Empire in the first place.
00:21:25.000We know why we have freedom of speech.
00:21:27.000You need to be able to petition your government.
00:21:31.000You, as a sovereign being, have rights given to you by God, not by government.
00:21:36.000We know why we have a second amendment to protect all the other amendments to protect yourself against, God forbid, a tyrannical government.
00:21:41.000The Third Amendment, you can't allow soldiers into your home.
00:21:44.000It's a big deal back in founding revolutionary era times.
00:21:48.000The Fourth Amendment is actually a sister amendment to the First Amendment.
00:22:26.000But what if you were doing something righteous?
00:22:29.000For example, during lockdowns, let's say lockdowns come again, and you run a church, and you're planning to defy government orders, and you also happen to do some mission work, and you text one of your friends who's a Coptic Christian in Egypt, and the FBI then has an excuse to be able to get to all of your devices, all of your text messages.
00:22:48.000So, if we go back to our roots, the Fourth Amendment was written there by the founding fathers specifically so that the Leviathan, the government, cannot interfere with your own private thoughts, your private activities, your consciousness.
00:23:04.000In fact, without privacy, you are constantly under the sword of Damocles of the state.
00:23:13.000And we have learned in the last couple of years, has the government earned our trust in the last four years?
00:23:33.000And none of the people responsible have landed in federal prison.
00:23:37.000Anthony Fauci, Peter Struckstrokesmirk, James Comey, and these same characters and these same actors might not be the same actual individuals, some of them, it's true, but the same type of person.
00:23:50.000They are now re-emerging and want your representative to say, hey, vote for more power for the federal government.
00:23:58.000The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 was intended as a wiretap act and was the result of congressional investigation into federal surveillance.
00:24:10.000Through FISA, Congress sought to prove judicial and congressional oversight of foreign intelligence.
00:24:15.000Now, Section 702, that is a post-9-11 wrinkle.
00:24:20.000And 702 is the more dangerous part of this.
00:24:25.000702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, according to DNI, the Department of National Intelligence, is there to keep Americans safe.
00:24:35.000The overtures, the overview of Section 02, this is their own website.
00:24:39.000Let me read to you what your government says.
00:24:42.000According to DNI.gov, the Department of National Intelligence says that they need 702.
00:24:49.000By mid-2000s, many terrorists and other foreign adversaries were using email accounts serviced by U.S. companies.
00:24:54.000Because of this change in communication technology, the government had to seek individual court orders based on fright finding probable cause to obtain the communications of non-U.S. persons located abroad.
00:25:07.000This proved costly because of the resources required and because the government couldn't always meet the probable cause standard, which was designed to protect U.S. persons and persons in the U.S. Hold on a second.
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00:31:47.000Just, you know, an amendment to the FISA bill that would have required warrants, which would have been a serious win, had 212 to 212 votes.
00:31:56.000The speaker rarely votes in these sorts of things.
00:31:58.000He came down and broke the tie to say the FBI doesn't need a warrant.
00:32:03.000So Speaker Johnson just came down and said, hey, FBI, I got you.
00:32:56.000And in fact, you guys, the audience, you're so great.
00:32:58.000Weston emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:33:00.000He emailed us the actual report, which has also been memory hold, the 2021 FISA certification opinion, which is a 127-page document that I think we should print out.
00:33:32.000This court document released just a few hours ago found that the FBI misused a popular digital surveillance tool on everyday Americans more than 278,000 times in 2020 going into 2021.
00:33:48.000We're specifically talking about section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, also known as FISA.
00:33:56.000It gives the FBI and other agencies the ability to digitally surveil without a court order or a warrant.
00:34:03.000We now know the FBI used the tool on people connected to the civil unrest following the death of George Floyd on the streets of the United States, those involved in the January 6th capital attack, even political donors.
00:34:15.000According to the court, a redacted name or names, quote, conducted a batch query for over 19,000 donors to a congressional campaign.
00:34:24.000Okay, so, I mean, that right there, that's smoking gun.
00:34:26.000Let's get that up on our social media.
00:34:28.000Audience, we need to really get some traction on this.