Will Congress Create ‘Surrogate Spies?’
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Update, Tuesday, December 12, 2023:
House Republican leadership pulled two bills reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act from the floor, as Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., faced backlash for allowing two bills to be introduced on the surveillance law.
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., a member of the House Rules Committee, confirmed to the Washington Examiner late Monday evening that neither of the bills reforming Section 702 would come to the floor for a vote this week. From Just the News.
This bill, heading to the House floor soon, would have drastic, far-reaching implications on our privacy. Now is the time for urgent prayer!
From Vigilant News Network. “Buried in the House intelligence committee’s Section 702 ‘reform’ bill, which is scheduled for a floor vote as soon as tomorrow (12/12/23), is the biggest expansion of surveillance inside the United States since the Patriot Act,” warned Elizabeth Goitein in a viral and disturbing X thread. …
Have you taken your place on the wall?
The House Intelligence Committee’s FISA “Reform” Bill, known as the FRRA, is set to significantly expand the scope of entities required to assist in FISA 702 surveillance. This expansion is due to a change in the definition of “electronic communication service providers” (ECSPs), potentially implicating a wider range of businesses and individuals in surveillance activities. Critically, the bill could allow the government warrantless access to nearly any communication system in America.
Gotein stated that under the proposed bill, entities with access to communication-transmitting equipment, like Wi-Fi routers in “hotels, libraries, coffee shops,” could be “forced to serve as surrogate spies.” She stated that this is not a theoretical concern but a significant issue, as even FISA Court amici have publicly cautioned against this provision.
The following is the full text from Goitein’s X thread. This is an important read:
RED ALERT: Buried in the House Intelligence Committee’s Section 702 “reform” bill, which is scheduled for a floor vote as soon as tomorrow, is the biggest expansion of surveillance inside the United States since the Patriot Act.
Through a seemingly innocuous change to the definition of “electronic service communications provider,” the bill vastly expands the universe of U.S. businesses that can be conscripted to aid the government in conducting surveillance. …
Under Section 504 of the House Intelligence Committee’s bill, any entity that has access to *equipment* on which communications may be transmitted or stored, such as an ordinary router, is fair game. What does that mean in practice? It’s simple…
Hotels, libraries, coffee shops, and other places that offer Wi-Fi … to their customers could be forced to serve as surrogate spies. They could be required to configure their systems to ensure that they can provide the government access to entire streams of communications. …
This isn’t a minor or theoretical concern. … We’d be foolish to ignore it. …
Are you concerned about this bill? About expansion of U.S. law enforcement powers? Please share in the comments or start a discussion on the Community page.
(Excerpt from Vigilant News Network. Photo Credit: bluebay2014/Getty Images)
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Does this apply to my personal Wi-Fi at home, or just to public places like libraries and coffee shops?
If this is TRUE than SOTH, Mike Johnson, should be ASHAMED of himself. I doubt that is another law that has been contorted, distorted and abused to the degree that section 702 has been.
You may well call me an Islamophobe, but I know in my heart where the threat to our way of life is coming from.
Search your own heart first, then – Prove me wrong !
Almighty God protect your people from the savages and unGodly who would do us all harm, and indeed live solely to destroy. Amen.
As the entire World presently witnesses the ongoing and everwidening of PERSECUTION by this illegitimate “Administration” and its corrupt manipulators in the Democrat political Party, why would anyone still breathing NOT suspect this “Bill” of seeking to quietly and without so much as a whisper of openness and honesty widen the scope and threat of massive expansion of the “Big Brother Network” creepily monitoring our every previously “Private” move ? !! For what purpose ? To whose advantage ?
The “Law” has not regained its reputation for “Protecting” every citizen FROM anything during the past decade or more – in fact the situation remains quite the opposite – with more and more legislation seemingly designed purely to “Protect the Administration from any actions by the Electorate !”
Remind me how “Government UNDER THE CONSTITUTION” is supposed to work !!!
Just WHO works for and by the authority of WHOM Huh ???
Who is supposedly PAYING for all this BS ? There is no such thing as “Government Money” it ALL belongs to “WE THE PEOPLE” every last cent – Remember ?
This is a whole cloth expansion in the government’s surveillance of all of us. There might be some of us who might say, “I have nothing to hide!” This could be said because of a high level of righteousness. That would have been fine 50 years ago, but there are entities in our government who would come against us JUST for being righteous! Therefore, it was very good to have this brought before us just now AND for a bit of delay of vote so that righteous people can PRAY. So PRAY!
Ron, your comment reminded me:
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller
Yes sir, I too believe ” it was very good to have this brought before us … So PRAY!”
To the House & All Who influential the Section 702 “reform” bill:
Please do not allow this bill to pass allowing the privacy of law abiding Americans to be invaded. There is no way to view this bill except that it allows Hotels, libraries, coffee shops, and other places that offer Wi-Fi … to their customers could be forced to serve as surrogate spies. They could be required to configure their systems that will allow carious persons, including government officials access to entire streams of communications.
Please fight for Americans to retain their privacy.
Thank you. I’m prsying for you.
Gloria Erb
Update:
surveillance- close watch kept over someone or something….supervision
Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for agreeing with our prayers. My prayer is for Godly leaders who seek Your “Super Vison” before establishing laws for our nation. I pray EACH and every plan in the Congress and Senate will glorify You and those that do not, totally fail. Jesus said, “If you ask Me anything in My Name, I will do it.” I thank You for this deferment and in the Name of Jesus Christ, I am asking for Your perfect clarity in every decision made. Amen
Praying for Those We Voted in, that They are going to be bold enough to Vote for US the constituents. We gave These Officials, Our voice to take a stand for US. We have allowed too much already to be taken from US. And We will keep praying for Each of You, to be Strong. Our forefathers Had to be bold, They had to be Strong. it is Now time for Our Elected officials to Do likewise. We must Not be wishy-washy Anymore! Our Freedoms Are At stake! We Must Not allow This bill to be passed!
needed in This arena
We cannot let this pass. There is little enough privacy as it is and we have to watch everything we say, even if it is derogatory. Please do not support this power!!!
God, You be the Watchman (Psalm 127:1b) to oversee our local communities and our country. Strike down these bills that take away our liberties. May Your Spirit convict those who think this a good thing and open their eyes to the reality that all will lose their freedoms that You have ordained. Silence the principalities, the powers, the rules of darkness and silence the spiritual host of wickedness that lie, steal and destroy. God have mercy on us, hold back the forces, the leaders, the organizations that come against Life and Liberty that come from You. Hold back the governments in this country and beyond that want to play god. Raise up men and women, especially men, to legislate truth and freedom and uphold the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence no matter what, that they would not be given over to any form of bribes, give them wisdom, especially the Speaker of the House, wisdom that can only be of You, give them a love for You. Your will be one.
Amen 🙏 in the mighty name of Christ Jesus,Yeshua Hamashiach!!
Yes, we must stop this type of intrusion into our privacy. It will only enable a Orwellian State. Thank you for posting these updates.
A Ferguson
A cry for freedom and deliverances. God we need back our freedom and Liberty that marks this nation shall be kept sacred. Father as I read this Bill “ RED ALERT: Buried in the House Intelligence Committee’s Section 702 “reform” bill, which is scheduled for a floor vote as soon as tomorrow, is the biggest expansion of surveillance inside the United States since the Patriot Act.” This Bill was introduced by the House Intelligence Committee buried !! This seemingly innocuous change to the definition of “electronic service communications provider,” the bill vastly expands the universe of U.S. businesses that can be conscripted to aid the government in conducting surveillance. …The government, this government in charge wants this!! God this cannot happen “ Critically, the bill could allow the government warrantless access to nearly any communication system in America. Heavenly Father the government has gone astray “ The U.S. has joined the EU in stepping into the artificial intelligence regulatory fray. Last week, President Biden issued a wide-ranging, 100+ page, Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. This is partly a part of their government control package over America. God we pray and prophesy deliverance from every stranglehold that would restrict the ability for people to conduct their lives independently, with freedom, soundly, decently, legally, according to God’s Word. We bind the spirit of the dictators and tyrants, in Jesus Name. God we bring before You the advancement of socialist, communists, fascists,. With this Bill that can and will be manipulated to Control all human lives and hold them in bondage, which we have seen in parts of this government group in office., We decree No forces laws that is against the Constitution shall pass that restricts Americans and Christians from following the Lord and America 🇺🇸 dream. God we lift up prayers to heaven that is asking You to Stop the breaking of every law, mandate and controlling measure that places unreasonable restrictions upon the fulfillment of life meant to be enjoyed by every human being. We say that every yoke of extreme and excessive governmental control shall be destroyed and I pray they realize this is America and America is not a Communist Nation. Heavenly Father as we pray against this potential Bill that WILL violate our privacy and freedom , We decree No binding law shall be placed upon the body of Christ and American Patriots, the churches, the Bible, legal businesses, health institutions, restaurants, schools- ect. We ask that the spirit of flesh, immortality, corruption be bound by the blood of Jesus and that we follow what Jesus gave us the words in The Bible to follow as well as The Constitution, the sacred amendments that our forefathers established. God we ask You to give us Wisdom, Boldness to speak up, I pray for a healthy dose of Boldness to fall upon the men and women that is representing us in Government. God I say Liberty is found in Your Salvation Plan and this Plan shall Reign Supreme. I ask God to step in and Help us secure back America. I know HE has been doing everything for us because we have asked in many prayers and they are unfolding. God’s Words reveal clearly that the Lord wants people set free. Jesus wants people delivered from this bondage, HE wats us free to serve Him free from Sin or revelry; Jesus wants a decent life that builds a future and fulfills a great legacy of families, love, prosperity, and learning from His Words in the Bible which unites us together with Him. We must raise up prayers with boldness, using His Words to keep freedom. Without God the people of Abraham, Moses, Jacob would have failed, but they chose God and God gave His Son Jesus to fulfill a New Covenant for Us. We must demand deliverances from all that Currently blinds our Liberty in Jesus’Name! I want to share a scripture for us to ponder upon. Luke 4:18 “ 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised“ Psalm 119:45” And I will walk at liberty and at ease, for I have sought and inquired for [and desperately required] Your precepts.“ AMPC version- God I truly thank you and honor You for all Your help, You are our Rock, our Shiel.
Amen!
In the name of Jesus Christ Yeshua Hamashiach, Amen Amen!
Lord, please let this bill that widens the government powers be defeated
The government spy’s way too much on the public as it is. Please do not let the Federal 3 Letter agencies be able to track and use this to go after someone that doesn’t agree with their policies. Do not pass the FISA bill at all. Please protect our Constitutional Rights.
FATHER, our government is corrupt and evil. They cannot be trusted to bring just and fair;
Elections
Protection of borders
Blind justice for all
Supporters of evil nations, IRAN
We cry JUSTICE JUSTICE
IN YESHUA’S HOLY NAME AMEN AMEN
FATHER PROTECT US FROM MISINFORMATION DISINFORMATION
MEDIA-NITES BIGTECH DOJ FBI NSA DOD HLS NEA NIH CDC FDA DEA ETC…
Sounds like Hitler is in Congress.
“Hitler” resides in The White House.
“Himmler” and his Nazi SS daily plot their corruption in the Capitol.
The General Elections cannot come round too soon – America teeters on the brink of Total Destruction and our children have been brainwashed to believe Heaven is Hell.
Dear Lord protect us all from Evil and preserve all that remains of the “Good” in America – Amen.
I urge congress to Not pass any renewal or new FISA bill. The government has abused this process in the past and can not be trusted. This originally was passed to supposedly protect us from foreign interest but has been abused to spy on American citizens. This bill is against our bill of rights. Stop contributing to an overreaching power of the government. Do not renew any FISA bill.
Please provide us with an email to send to our representatives to encourage them to not let this bill go through.
We are to pull down every doctrine of darkness coming against us and our nation and our constitutional rights.America is blessed by God and no weapon formed against us will prosper today or any day in Jesus mighty name.Tho the enemy devises a trap a mischievous device he will not succeed he will fall in his own pit.We do pray for Congress ,,as they vote ,that your will be done today for our freedom from a tyrannical government in Jesus mighty name.We are one nation under one God and it is Jehovah God and no other and we don’t know how to pray sometimes but our eyes are on you Jesus.
This article is a bit confusing. I understand the concern, but it begins by saying it’s been pulled by Johnson. Then the rest of the article says it may be up for a vote today, causing confusion. Which is it? And if it’s up for a vote soon, why isn’t there a take action link?
I’m not intending to be critical, but I do think clarification is necessary.
Thank you very much for all your hard work!
💯 against the surveillance of our privacy.
This Bill and especially sections 702 and 504 need to be stopped. We have been complacent in allowing our elected officials whom we pay to go rogue. They are following the globalists plan to enslave and entrap every citizen worldwide. Speaker Johnson, as a professed Christian, you need to stop this.
More reason to impeach Biden, Mayorkas, Kerry, KJP, and the entire cabinet NOW, no excuses.
NO, NO AND NO!!!! WE CANCEL THIS COVERT ATTEMPT TO FORCE BUSINESSES TO PARTNER IN UNWARRANTED SURVEILLANCE!
I don’t think this is a good bill. The way I understand it is that government will be have more control over our lives. They already have too much as far as I’m concerned.
thank you
I do not trust our current, so called “government”, at all. Yes I am concerned. They stood the election in 2020, and now they are stealing our rights, our kids and our country. Be our Light Jesus and shine in each of us.
I am concerned about what will be the consequences, if this bill becomes enacted into law. I feel so very sad that our freedoms are constantly under attack in this nation. Evidently, it is symptomatic of the days that we are living in- the End Times. Lord Jesus, I pray that You will give our Representatives guidance and wisdom today as they consider and vote upon this bill. Give them ears to hear the still, small voice of Holy Spirit guiding and directing their actions.. Thank you, Jesus.
We are definitely becoming a police state
So is that your declaration?
A very simple view of the illegitimate and unconstitutional ever-widening and bitterly nonsensical persecution of President Donald Trump ans all his more than half the country by our so-called “Government” says all that needs to be said about the trustworthiness of the present malAdministration and its weaponised Alphabet Agencies.
Until such time as ALL these unworthy creatures are consigned to prison for their multiple crimes against the Nation, there IS NO LAW in America – just bitternes and cowardliness.
May God take them NOW, for Judgement. Amen.
Hello IFA, God gives us our Rights, not the Constitution. The Constitution protects them from the Government.
I think IFA is revealing that our Gilod-given rights are at risk of being taken from us. That is the thrust of the article. There are evil ones trying to undermine our Constitution’s ability to guard those rights.
I think IFA is revealing that our God-given rights are at risk of being taken from us. That is the thrust of the article. There are evil ones trying to undermine our Constitution’s ability to guard those rights.
Evil ones: Biden, Kerry, Mayorkas, and the entire cabinet.
Evil ones: Token judges like Engoron, Chutkan, and more; token admittees to law school, learned nothing about abuse of legal process, conduct unbecoming a lawyer, etc.
Evil ones: Prosecutors like Jack Smith, Fani Willis, and others…token admittees to law school and learned nothing like the judges.
Evil ones: The Supreme Court majority, flunked geography (state borders and taxation), etc.
Evil ones: The courts in California and the 9th circuit “buttlickers”..add the governors of California, NY, Michigan, etc.
Private conscience is only for the Lord God to peer into, notan trying to be as God.
Almighty Father, please protect your Sovereignty from the evil ways of man and man’s attempt to be as you oh Lord God. No one can compare to you oh Father, please expose the truth about this Act and move our Representatives to vote for your Sovereignty and against this evil. We ask in the name of your Beloved Son, Jesus, Father. Amen
This has to STOP!
This is just one more step into one world government and out of freedom. To decide for our lived. To expect I experience equality.
Americans want our privacy. I pray this bill will not pass today.
This spying on the American public has to stop. DO NOT PASS THIS BILL!
If this bill is approved, it is another step toward the loss of our privacy and one step closer to totalitarianism. This has to stop. While there is deception in computer communications, or the enemies attempt to shut down our electrical or water system, this has to stop. Next it will be drones flying through the air watching every citizen through cameras.
Power corrupts. End government corruption!
Father, the thief is at the door, the destroyer is trying to destroy our families even the more, the murderer is here. We see the strongman, we are watching and praying. Father, “intelligence” is getting out of hand. Bring down this tower of babble. Give the congress insight, wisdom, knowledge and strength to stand up for the people of this country. Our help comes from You and You have never lost a battle, ever. In Jesus’ name I do pray. Amen.
Jesus God we pray that you will guide our government to make choices that will protect their citizens from invasion of privacy and from taking our freedoms. We pray that your hand will be upon us Lord in all of this protect us and guide us in the name of Jesus Amen
Father, we pray that our representatives in the house would see clearly and vote with conscience to deliver us from this proposed tyranny and violation of our privacy. Jesus you came to destroy the work of the enemy in our lives. We ask and believe in the mighty name of Jesus that this bill will come to nothing in your mighty and Holy and powerful name. Amen.
Lord, I pray every time the evil ones attempt to implement their evil plans, they are Blocked by You. If they turn to the right , they are Blocked. If they turn to the left, they are Blocked. I decree all their plans fall to the ground. I decree they become frustrated and stop and give up. I decree the prayers of the saints weary them and they Give Up. Let your will in heaven be done on earth. Amen.
The increase of surveillance and the throttling of free speech, especially religious expression, is a harbinger of efforts to end all religion and make people dependent on a one-world state. This is dangerous, and inimical to all of us. We need to move together and cooperate both in resistance to the bills and policies Congress is trying to pass, as well is in mutual preparations for hardship.
Yes – good advice for us all.
As God directed me to pray for supernatural protection and supernatural discernment for all His children, I pray again for supernatural protection and supernatural discernment for all His children. This bill is obviously dangerous and anti-American. God has told us that “America shall be saved”. He said He would do it and it would be obvious that it was His Hand in it. He would receive the glory. In the meantime, I pray for Godly governance for America and for the nations of the world. So, Lord, we call down Your plan for our country and for the nations. Only You! You are our rescue plan and our strong tower. We pray that Your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. We also pray that the knowledge of Your Glory would cover the earth, as water covers the sea. (Habakkuk 2:14) Everything is clear in the Glory and evil lies don’t stand a chance. Lord God, You have said that You will shut the lying media down and You will open a communications channel that will be the only available option to watch and You will force the public to hear the Truth 24/7. We ask that You do that very thing now. We love You, Lord and we ask that You would be glorified in all that You do and that America shall be saved.Thank You, Lord. Amen
Heavenly Father May the voters who vote on this bill see the danger in passing it and may the vote to stop the bill be larger than the vote to pass the bill. Help congress to see and understand the intrusion this bill would cause and the constructional rights that would be taken from us should this bill continue to circulate. We pray in the mighty Name of Jesus Christ amen