House Speaker Mike Johnson wants to tell former President Donald Trump why GOP leadership wants to reauthorize the government's chief spying tool.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. House Speaker Mike Johnson wants to tell former President Donald Trump why GOP leadership wants to reauthorize the government’s chief spying tool.
“I look forward to talking with him about it. Here’s the thing about FISA, He’s not wrong. Of course, they abused FISA, the whole Carter Page investigation, that whole fiasco was built on a false premise — the fake Russian dossier and all the other things,” Mr. Johnson said Wednesday. “But these reforms would actually kill the abuses that allow President Trump’s campaign to be spied on.”
The legislation lets the government collect tranches of digital information — emails, texts and phone calls — from foreigners living abroad. Americans’ communications can get ensnared, and that’s the focus of legislation to overhaul how intel and law enforcement officials can search the FISA database.
Mr. Johnson noted that the new FISA legislation includes criminal and civil penalties for using opposition research to leak FISA applications or illegal spying.
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