i spoke with a source before coming on here. somebody that is retired from the intelligence community. they reminded me of something very important. this isn t just the fbi. this is across our entire intelligence agencies. we seen it with the nsa. in 2017 john solomon and i broke the very first story on the illegal spying from sticky place under the obama administration. in fact, the obama admin surgeon had to admit to the foreign intelligence surveillance court that it expanded its powers and was collecting upstream data on americans which is the backbone of the internet that s emails, all text messages, phone calls and sweeping them in wholeheartedly. the fbi is doing this as well jason. what they re doing, they re doing it through the physis 702. the conservative database which has externally extensions.
. yeah, look, when i was in congress as chairman of the oversight committee, we held hearings on this very topic. the fbi, despite the law, was collecting facial recognitioncog for more than half oref of americans , unbeknownst to those americans . s ofit s these violation the fourth amendment. and in this particular case, the report that was reviewedt a today was justth aboute report the january 6th people. was also about people related to george floyd. so, again, on both sides of the aisle, fisa is up for reform. greg, it very short order. i want to kind of go down very the line. how do we fishordex the departmf justice and specifically the fbi? well, you made several excellent suggestions. first of all, strengthen the inspector general s, especially the one at the department of justice that doesn t even allow the ig to go after, you know, crooked lawyers who do bad things,
on these investigations. that s what we are being told. if all that is accurate, it should frighten all americans. yeah, give the inspector general issued 2 reports. more than a thousand pages of material including criminal and disciplinary referrals to the department of justice but, no, they don t pursue those. that is one scary about it. they re so cavalier. they re given these awesome police powers to do what nobody else in the country can do. then they abuse it.sarah, all of a sudden we do get these whistleblowers who are telling us, not all their problems directly with donald trump, this report that is out today is really pretty scary. i read a great article about the wall street journal. tell us about that. to abuse their police power more than 278,000 times and even the washington post is reporting that should scare all americans. no matter your political persuasion. you re absolutely right.
and i want e everybody to remember this. they re unmasking americans ,ou collecting huge amounts ofof data. and what is more powerful than money? it s information. and we re supposed to be entrusting our lives, our constitutional rights, our fourth amendment, you know ,to the united states government that they re going to uphold these bureaucracies. h that and nowol they re not doing it. now thg thatthin gor government can do now to really show that they meanve business, because obviously the fbi and the department of justice don t care is forstice congress to ensure thatdo itd some of these agencies and hurt them and hurt them so that they understand what s going on here. because, believe me, this collection ot f data is not going relea to really stop a terrorist attackse. we have a target and we know what the target is . we can collect that data that s still available with a warrant, but they need a warrant to dos l it because it l swarr unconstitutional. if they don t have itant.
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