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More: Seven months ago, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court objected to search filters that let intelligence analysts pull Americans' messages from intercepted data without the approvals, written justifications, or records the law requires. The court approved another year of surveillance anyway. The ruling has never been made public, and Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Adam Schiff of California say the administration's own deadline for releasing it passed in September.

The program, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), lapsed in June after Congress failed to renew it, though collection continues under the court's March approval. The administration's own public documentation says rulings like this one are reviewed for public release "within 180 days of issuance." That window closed September 13, even as intelligence officials press lawmakers to reauthorize the program by the end of the year.

Wyden, the longest-serving member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Schiff, the former chair of its House counterpart, say the administration owes Congress an explanation for the delay, and the names of the officials responsible, by November 6.

"If this administration won't follow this simple statutory directive," the senators told Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton and Attorney General Todd Blanche in a demand letter obtained exclusively by WIRED, "it is unclear why Congress or the American people should trust this administration to follow any of the other legal limits to Section 702."

Does anyone with half a brain think Putin would want Trump over Biden?
#4 | Posted by fishpaw

Marco Rubio thinks that.
He's got a half a brain (liberal estimate).
www.intelligence.senate.gov

Paul Manafort's presence on the Trump Campaign and proximity to then-Candidate Trump created opportunities for Russian intelligence services to exert influence over, and acquire confidential information on, the Trump Campaign.

George Papadopoulos was not a witting cooptee of the Russian intelligence services, but nonetheless presented a prime intelligence target and potential vector for malign Russian influence.

Russia took advantage of members of the Transition Team's relative inexperience in government, opposition to Obama Administration policies, and Trump's desire to deepen ties with Russia to pursue unofficial channels through which Russia could conduct diplomacy.

"Judge Jesse Furman ordered that Comey, who is the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, be retroactively reinstated to her job as an assistant United States attorney in the Southern District of New York.

The judge also ordered that she receive back pay from July 16 through December 20, 2025, when he inferred that Comey accepted another job, in the ruling in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

Furman, in his ruling for Maurene Comey in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, rejected the DOJ's arguments that then-Attorney General Pam Bondi could remove a federal prosecutor "at will" and without cause, and that current AG Todd Blanche could ratify that act after the fact.

Furman also rejected the DOJ's argument that even if the Civil Service Reform Act requires removal of a prosecutor for cause, an attorney general's firing of her constituted an implicit determination that she was removed "for such cause as will promote the efficiency of the service."

"The Court need not dwell long on Defendants' second statutory argument justifying
Comey's removal," Furman said, referring to that claim. "That is because the argument borders on frivolous."

The judge said the DOJ all but admitted that its argument that the attorney general had power to fire Comey under Article II of the Constitution sought "to overturn nearly two centuries of Supreme Court precedent."

"This Court, however, is bound to follow the Supreme Court's precedents unless and until the Supreme Court overturns them," Furman wrote."

non citizens should not be voting in our elections, if that is allowed the whole world can vote in our elections

#6 | Posted by Maverick

They're not.

"Based on extensive research, official state audits, and empirical data, noncitizens do not vote in U.S. elections on any significant scale, and there is no evidence that noncitizen voting has altered federal or state election outcomes.

Brennan Center Audit (2016): Researchers surveyed election officials across 42 jurisdictions (representing 23.5 million votes cast in the 2016 general election). They identified only 30 total suspected cases of noncitizen voting referred for investigation"accounting for approximately 0.0001% of votes cast in those areas. 40 of the 42 jurisdictions reported zero known cases.

Heritage Foundation Fraud Database: The conservative Heritage Foundation maintains a public database of election fraud cases going back decades. Across hundreds of millions of votes cast between 2003 and 2022, their database lists fewer than 30 total convictions or enforcement actions nationwide involving noncitizens casting ballots.

Cato Institute Findings: Studies by the libertarian Cato Institute concluded that illegal noncitizen voting is statistically minimal and far too rare to sway election outcomes.

State Audits: Recent audits of voter rolls by state Secretaries of State (including states such as Georgia, Texas, Ohio, and North Carolina) consistently show that noncitizens who register or attempt to vote represent a tiny fraction of one percent of registered voters, with actual ballots cast being even rarer.
Summary

In summary, while administrative missteps or isolated illegal votes occasionally occur, empirical studies, state audits, and conservative and nonpartisan research groups all arrive at the same conclusion: noncitizen voting in U.S. elections is statistically negligible and lacks the scale to affect federal or state election results."

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