2y ago

FISA Section 702 Reauthorization: House GOP leadership pulls dueling FISA bills amid backlash!

Instead, a four-month extension is attached to the NDAA -- unless it gets removed. Dozens of civil rights and racial justice groups oppose extending FISA in the NDAA.

If you agree, call your Senators TODAY and with a simple ask: "DO NOT put 702 in the NDAA."

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They're starting to realize it condemns them more than it own teh libs
- Empathy, as always, is the real problem with the GOP. They are perfectly fine when it's immigrants, liberals, gays, brown people, etc that suffer these laws. When angry white people get affected, then they are suddenly sad about it and suddenly were the whole time.
  
  Not even then. Usually has to be their family and, more granularly, it almost always has to directly inconvenience them or interfere with their goals.
  They really are that fucking selfish and insulated/oblivious to the suffering and pain of others
They're just going to do it anyway. They always do.
- @drwho Not necessarily. In the short term, the huge split in the Republican party means that the NDAA's already not a slam-dunk, so throwing gasoline on the fire with FISA activism could potentially have an impact. It also adds to pressure on Speaker Johnson, who's under a lot of fire from Republicans for how badly he's handled this mess.
  And even if they do the short-term reauth (which I agree is more likely than not), it's still very much an open question as to what happens next -- it could be anything from GSRA or PLEWSA (with significant reforms) to a straightforward longer-term reauth with minimal reforms as a "compromise" to the odious FFRA (which broadens the scope). So pressure now is also a preparation for the next battle.