Dan Goldman Supported Warrantless Spying on Americans. Now His Primary Opponent Is Hitting Him for It.
THE HOUSE WAS debating a powerful National Security Agency spying program when Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., rose to side against privacy hawks.
The spring 2024 debate was over forcing the feds to get a warrant to search foreign communications for intelligence on Americans. Doing so would cost crucial time, Goldman said, citing his own tenure as a federal prosecutor.
“Based on that experience, I can say with confidence that requiring a warrant would render this program unusable and entirely worthless,” he said last year. “Even if it were possible, the time required to obtain a search warrant from a judge would frequently fail to meet the urgency posed by a terrorist or other national security threat.”
Goldman’s argument won the day.
With his election victory last November, Donald Trump would inherit the warrantless surveillance powers.
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/28/fisa-warrant-surveillance-dan-goldman-primary/Open linkView original on sh.itjust.works
You could have stopped right there.
DNC is all for it(surveillance), they just dont want to be the seen voting for it.
Morons.
That is a really good article. I remember most of the main points, but I didn't remember (or never knew) a lot of the political posturing that went into the votes. Thanks for posting.
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