This whole thing was a shit show. Very happy Restore the Fourth signed the open letter calling for House Intelligence chair to step down. <a href="https://www.freedomworks.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Turner-letter.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.freedomworks.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Turn...</a><p>And the reason the spooks and their apologists on the HPSCI are so freaked out? because they don't want to have to go to a judge to get Americans data. They would rather secretly buy that data from data brokers.
There's always a new boogeyman they can trot out to protect the status quo, and this entire gauntlet felt contrived. "Oh no, new Russian threat! Looks like we need new powers again!"