Patriot,

Last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on reauthorizing the program America’s spy agencies use to gather intelligence on law-abiding Americans, an unequivocal violation of the U.S. Constitution, went exactly as we predicted.

Top officials from the CIA, FBI, NSA, DOJ, and DNI testified about how badly they need Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to be renewed, because “it’s so important for catching bad guys.”

They claimed Section 702 is necessary to stop the flow of drugs into our country. They were mostly unapologetic about their millions of illegal searches on Americans and said agents would be penalized . . . yet there was but a single person fired for illegal searches because the Deep State protects their own.

And if Section 702 is so important, the Alphabet Spy Agencies shouldn’t have abused it to illegally spy on law-abiding Americans without getting a warrant.

At this point, the excuses and explanations ring so hollow that Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) noted this repetitiveness:

“In hearing after hearing about FISA and the FBI’s shocking disregard for Americans’ constitutional rights and civil liberties, we have been given basically the same answer by FBI directors, attorneys general, and other officials during three presidential administrations involving both major political parties.

“And the answer every time is more or less a variation of the following: ‘Just trust us. Don’t worry. We’ve got good people, law-abiding people running this. And we’ve got lots and lots of procedural safeguards in place to prevent this type of abuse that you’re facing here. These are not the droids you’re looking for.’ ”

Lee went on to point out abuse after abuse by the FBI in recent years and scoffed at the notion the latest FBI policy update was going to change anything.

Patriot, you know things are bad when even U.S. Senators are saying on record what a joke these bogus reforms are.

The hearing may have been just more of the same, but that just goes to show the time for show hearings is over.

It’s time to DEMAND Congress hold the FBI accountable and end Section 702.

The FBI conducts hundreds of thousands of illegal warrantless searches on Americans every month.

Clearly, unmistakably, illegal searches aren’t an aberration of policy. They are the policy.

They’ve concocted bogus investigations against politicians, against pro-life and anti-war activists, and even persecuted parents concerned about what’s going on in our schools.

And as whistleblowers have testified, all of this came at the expense of the legitimate work fighting sex traffickers and terrorists.

This is an outrage, and Congress needs to hear our outrage.

Because the politicians in Washington might think criticizing the FBI in hearings is enough. Behind closed doors, many of them have no problem with the FBI’s rogue actions – even though they also targeted a Congressman!

This has to stop . . . and we the people must DEMAND it stop.

Take a moment right now to send all members of the Senate an e-postcard DEMANDING they hold the FBI and other agencies accountable for their misconduct.

NO COMPROMISE, NO BOGUS “REFORM” – END SECTION 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act!

The “intelligence leadership” has told us time and time again they will fix things. And time and time again, they break not just the rules but the law.

The fact is, the Deep State is hell-bent on collecting every American’s emails, phone records, text messages, Internet searches, instant messages, online purchases, and social media posts.

And they’re not letting anything get in their way. As admitted in the news, the NSA “deliberately ignored restrictions on their authority to spy on Americans multiple times in the past decade.”

Take a moment right now to tell members of the Senate to SHUT DOWN the abuses of Section 702, which the Deep State has proven time and again it cannot be entrusted to use in “good faith.”

And if you can, please also make a contribution of $100, $50, $25, $10, or whatever you can afford to help us inform and mobilize more patriots for this fight.

For Liberty,

John McCardell
Executive Director
Campaign for Liberty

P.S. Section 702 of FISA – which opened the door for the massive collection of innocent Americans’ emails, texts, phone calls, and online chats to continue – is set to expire at the end of this year.

If you and I turn up enough heat on Congress to stop reauthorization, I’m convinced we can bring the statists’ domestic spying programs to a crashing halt.

That’s why I’m counting on you to please send your STOP THE SURVEILLANCE STATE e-postcard and make a contribution of $10, $25, $50, $100, or more TODAY!

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