Note : yesterday I commented in a Post thats said Johnson cast the tiebreaking vote AGAINST the attachment of a bill forcing the FEDs to get a warrant before investigating citizens …The vote was a Tie and a tie in the house is NOT broken ..it is considered a failed resolution BUT the reason it was a Tie is Johnson voted against in the up and down vote…so that makes him a traitor …or does it ?

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Jeff has a theory

The FISA vote went down yesterday just as expected, but it offered two surprises. USA Today ran the story under the headline, “Fourth time’s the charm: House passes controversial spying bill after bitter infighting.” FISA is the deeply-flawed, deep-state surveillance law that allowed the FBI to secretly spy on President Trump and his allies during the 2015 campaign.

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I like Speaker Johnson. I want to like him. I even have a theory to explain what happened yesterday in a (slightly) more favorable way, but the hard fact is Speaker Johnson cast a tie-breaking vote yesterday defeating an amendment that would have added a warrant requirement to the FISA renewal bill.

That was the first surprise.

The warrant requirement was always a poison amendment. Had the warrant amendment passed, its effect would have been to kill FISA renewal for the fourth consecutive time. It is not realistic that FISA renewal could have passed with the warranting amendment.

It’s also important to consider that President Trump, who railed against FISA renewal, did not criticize Speaker Johnson after the vote. And later, when Trump delivered some remarks about Biden’s Middle East incompetence yesterday, Johnson was standing right by Trump’s side. So.

For what it’s worth, my theory is that without FISA, it would be much easier for Biden to declare a state of emergency, especially if he can get war with Iran heating up. And Biden could blame Republicans who blocked FISA when he did it. So FISA had to be renewed. That’s my theory. I realize it’s not completely satisfactory.

Anyway, the second surprise was that standout Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna employed a rare parliamentary maneuver to cancel the FISA amendment vote, so the vote will have to be taken for the fifth time anyway:

We only need one changed vote to bring back the warrant requirement. This would be a great time to call your congressman to say you want them to vote in favor of the FISA warrant requirement.

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