Senate Republicans vented their frustration after former President Trump helped derail a compromise House bill to extend Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authority, sending lawmakers scrambling to find a Plan B to keep the nation’s intelligence agencies from losing their ability to spy on adversaries and terrorists.
Republican senators are warning that the nation’s spy program is about to go “dark” and that much of the intelligence that goes into President Biden’s daily briefing could be lost, putting the nation at risk for surprise attacks.
“I’m very disappointed in President Trump’s assessment of FISA. It is an essential tool. It may need to be amended but it is absolutely essential as everyone in the intelligence community will tell you,” said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), a senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
“KILL FISA, IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHERS. THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!!” Trump fumed on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Was this after the first impeachment or the second? I forget. If it was after the second, so help me,
No, that was the first time.
To her credit she voted to convict the second time. But she has always taken safe dissent votes, so it’s hard to give her that much credit. Especially since she didn’t take a stand the previous time he got caught trying to cheat in the election.
Ah, yeah, I remember now, thanks for jogging my memory. She’s a coward and she’ll continue to shill for him until she gets permission to do otherwise when it’s politically expedient for her not to do so.