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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDevin Nunes Messed With NSA's Most Cherished Surveillance Power
Usually, Republicans on the intelligence committee are more than happy to OK the Deep States spying powers. But these are not usual times.
BETSY WOODRUFF
SPENCER ACKERMAN
01.09.18 5:00 AM ET
Its the NSAs most cherished mass-surveillance law, albeit one civil libertarians consider dubiously constitutional. And the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee helped jeopardize its renewal, The Daily Beast has learnedby resurrecting a pseudo-scandal of his own invention.
In recent months, congressional negotiators have been working on a bill codifying an umbrella of mass-surveillance activities known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The authorization for those activities is due to expire in a matter of days.
But Chairman Devin Nunes threw a monkey wrench into the process, by initially pushing to include in the bill an unrelated a provision on so-called unmasking, the process that intelligence agencies use to reveal the names of U.S. persons who may be involved in crimes like spying.
(Last year, as the Trump-Russia probe began to heat up, Nunes led a sideshow investigation into allegations that Obama administration officials improperly unmasked the names of Trump campaign staffers.)
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Devin Nunes Messed With NSA's Most Cherished Surveillance Power (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jan 2018
OP
Hes in my district. CA22. We do have a candidate to run against him, but the big farms here
onecaliberal
Jan 2018
#4
MiniMe
(21,714 posts)1. Any hope that this tool will be out in 2018?
I can always hope, but doubt he will lose.
barbtries
(28,789 posts)2. what do you think they've got on nunes?
or is he a bona fide member of the trump cult. i like to speculate about these things.
salin
(48,955 posts)3. More the former (true trumpioid), but possibly also the latter
there was a story last Spring about Russian connections/business tied to his winery business - or so I think I recall something like that.
onecaliberal
(32,836 posts)4. Hes in my district. CA22. We do have a candidate to run against him, but the big farms here
love them some Russian loving criminal Nunes. It is a very red district.