Republicans are plunging into a divisive debate that has pitted two warring factions against each other for months. There's plenty of backbiting and mistrust to go around.
Republicans are plunging into a divisive debate that has pitted two warring factions against each other for months. There’s plenty of backbiting and mistrust to go around.
Johnson, while staring down an attempt to oust him, is dealing with two competing Republican factions that have battled privately for months over how much to rein in Section 702 — in particular, its ability to sift through the foreign data for information related to Americans. Johnson will hold a series of meetings across the conference this week on the spy power. And while he’s tried to avoid publicly taking a side, describing this week’s bill as a compromise between the two factions, he runs the risk of alienating more conservatives if he’s perceived as tipping too close to the Intelligence Committee’s side in the battle. And new alienation on the right is the last thing the Louisiana Republican needs as he prepares for a forced vote of no confidence from Rep.
At that time, Judiciary panel Republicans and their allies faced accusations that they tanked Johnson’s strategy because they could lose. Meanwhile, some Judiciary members complained that Johnson wasn’t using their surveillance plan as the House’s starting point, even though he is a former member of the committee.
During those presentations, Turner outlined a scenario: A Hamas-affiliated group told its supporters to protest outside Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s New York home at a specific time. Then, some of the protesters who showed up were arrested.from conservative writer Matt Foldi, who previously ran for Congress as a Republican. Foldi used a screenshot from Samidoun — a pro-Palestinian group that’s registered in Canada as a nonprofit and has praised Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
Turner, asked about the example he used, said it was designed to reaffirm that the surveillance law “only collects against foreigners outside of the United States” and that because the protesters are Americans , “although they responded to the Hamas solicitation ... they are still not subject to surveillance under 702.”
GOP leaders are expected to tee up a vote on a bipartisan proposal that would add a warrant mandate once the bill is taken up on the floor. And Intelligence Committee members and their allies are increasingly confident they can block the change.
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