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Official title: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Executive Session)
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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextMr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, Trump's actions last night make it crystal clear that he is the one standing in the way of FISA.
fact that he withdrew Jay Clayton should erase anyone's doubts. Trump wants FISA to stay expired. Trump is twisting himself up in knots and jumping through hoops to make it impossible to reauthorize FISA right now, and he is embarrassing his Republican colleagues in the process.
believe him. Trump just got caught redhanded undermining America's national security.
Withdrawing Clayton even shocked Trump's closest Republican allies. Trump also reasserted his demand to tie FISA to his radical SAVE Act, which would strip millions of Americans of their voting rights and resurrect the ghost of the Jim Crow south.
he can save SAVE by attaching it to FISA. It ain't happening; it ain't passing.
legislation Trump has ever come up with and has absolutely nothing— nothing—to do with FISA whatsoever.
slams the door shut on them. Every time the Republicans find a path to negotiate FISA, Trump slams the door shut on them, and you can hear the howls.
personal interests. This is Trump's hostage note. Here is what he said:
I will not approve FISA . . .
He said:
We are cancelling the Senate hearing . . .
He said:
[B]ill Pulte will remain as the acting Director of National
Intelligence.
Trump should know national security is not a pawn. It is not a pawn, and yet it is clear that he is holding our national security hostage, and it is absolutely disgraceful.
America vulnerable, saying it is simply to add a “slight bit of intrigue” when Americans' safety is at stake in a dangerous world with dangerous countries? And he says he is adding a “slight bit of intrigue?” Are you kidding me? Intrigue when it comes to America's national security, intrigue when it comes to the safety of our people?
Trump ought to add a slight bit of common sense as he does this. But, again, just to repeat what he said, he said:
I will not approve FISA . . .
We are cancelling the Senate hearing . . .
[B]ill Pulte will remain as the Acting Director of National
Intelligence.
his insistence on having a political hack like Bill Pulte serve atop our Intelligence Committee, other than he plans to order Pulte to abuse his powers as Director of National Intelligence.
The question for oversight now is: What exactly will Trump ask Pulte to do? Expose intelligence sources? Alter analysis? Target political opponents? Mess with elections?
asks, legal or not, ethical or not, in American people's interests or not. Make no mistake, all of the consequences that come from undercutting our national security will fall on Trump and any Republicans who go along with his dangerous, partisan games.