Friday, March 15, 2024

If H.R. 7521 was only about TikTok, it would only apply to TikTok

Given that Biden routinely smears political opponents as being under the control of Putin, the danger should be obvious.” - By Robert Romano
“The TikTok bill gives Biden the power to ban websites & apps run by ‘a person subject to the direction or control of a foreign person or entity.’ 
Given that Biden routinely smears political opponents as being under the control of Putin, the danger should be obvious.”...
To get there, according to the legislation, the application must be “determined by the President to present a significant threat to the national security of the United States”...
The biggest recent example was Russiagate. 
In fact, to obtain surveillance of the Trump campaign, as happened in Oct. 2016, the FBI and the Justice Department had to give the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court a “statement of the facts and circumstances relied upon by the applicant to justify his belief that… the target of the electronic surveillance is a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power…”
The Oct. 2016 application to the FISA Court stated, “The target of this application is Carter W. Page, a U.S. person, and an agent of a foreign power… The status of the target was determined in or about October 2016 from information provided by the U.S. State Department…”...

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