{"id":175372,"date":"2024-04-12T14:13:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T21:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=175372"},"modified":"2024-04-12T14:13:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T21:13:35","slug":"mcclintock-advocates-for-warrant-requirement-in-fisa-renewal-bil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=175372","title":{"rendered":"McClintock Advocates for Warrant Requirement in FISA Renewal Bil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Congressman McClintock delivered the following remarks on the House floor:  I don\u2019t discount the mounting dangers we face from enemies abroad. But we also cannot discount the dangers we face at home from the very powers this bill would continue. The FBI abused these powers 278,000 times in a single year and turned them against American citizens.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xnu3UlgKw4Q\" title=\"McClintock Advocates for Warrant Requirement in FISA Renewal Bill\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are many excellent reforms in this bill that I applaud. But they largely depend on these agencies policing themselves, and experience warns us that\u2019s just not enough. Without a warrant requirement, I fear these powers will once again be turned against our fundamental liberties and &#8212; these days &#8212; that scares me as much as a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Franklin\u2019s warning echoes from his age to ours: \u201cthose who can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.\u201d Let that not be history\u2019s judgement of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Congressman McClintock delivered the following remarks on the House floor: I don\u2019t discount the mounting dangers we face from enemies abroad. But we also cannot discount the dangers we face at home from the very powers this bill would continue. The FBI abused these powers 278,000 times in a single year and turned them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/FISA.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175374,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175372\/revisions\/175374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}