Oregon lawmakers demand answers after a report alleges that the Trump administration spied on protes

[Judi Lynn]

Source: MSN.com/Business Insider

Oregon lawmakers demand answers after a report alleges that the Trump administration spied on protesters' electronic communication
[e-mail] (Charles Davis) 1 hr ago

The Trump administration may have violated the US Constitution by illegally spying on protesters in Portland, four Oregon lawmakers charged in a letter to Chad Wolf, acting head of the Department of Homeland Security.

Earlier this week, The Nation reported that federal agents deployed by President Donald Trump may have intercepted protesters' phone communications and extracted data from their electronic devices.

"Congress has enacted strict legal protections which require government agencies to obtain the approval of an independent judge before searching Americans' devices and surveilling their communications," states the September 25 letter, signed by US Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, as well as US Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Suzanne Bonamici.

Link to tweet

"These recent reports, which allege that DHS has deployed high-tech surveillance technologies against protesters in Portland, raise serious concerns, which Congress has a responsibility to investigate," the lawmakers wrote.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/oregon-lawmakers-demand-answers-after-a-report-alleges-that-the-trump-administration-spied-on-protesters-electronic-communication/ar-BB19r4YZ

[Doodley]

1. What does anyone expect from a fascist in the White House?

[Cha]

2. Get the Fascists, Oregon!

[Illumination]

3. OK Congress. You need to do your job & investigate this. Hmmm...I smell lawsuits...

[2naSalit]

4. So would that resource,

The high tech equipment and personnel be under the control of NatSec or some arm of the military? And how is that not fascist? Not that I hadn't expected it but I wonder which agency under HHS was conducting such operations.

[machoneman]

5. President Biden needs to disband totally DHS. Fire them all. They no longer serve the American....

people thanks to Trumpy. They must go entirely Day 1 starting at the very top in firing every storm trooper lieutenant.

[Firestorm49]

6. Please excuse my mis-understanding, but I was under the impression that

under the Patriot Act, initiated under GW, we are all subject to “observation.” For the government to say that they don’t or can’t do unauthorized observation without proper protocol reminds me of the expression; “Don’t believe anything until it has been officially denied.”

We are perilously close to the brink. I’m not screaming “fire” (or maybe I am) but we’ve been hearing from knowledgeable and well informed sources not just this week, or month, but for the past three years about the dangers that Donald Trump poses to democracy. And yet, we have been complacent from the start.

My hope is that after the chaos that’s about to erupt after the votes are cast, assuming that Biden wins, that we will eventually come to our senses and build America back up to the stature that was once admired around the world. Joe won’t win if it’s a close election. Republicans will stack the deck in ways we haven’t even thought of. See Milwaukee Journal article, “Group says Wisconsin cities can’t legally accept election grants”. Sorry, but I always have difficulty reposting from the Journal.

This is far from over. If you’re a religious person, break out the rosary NOW.

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

7. someone i know here in chi started a 'wall of moms' fb group.

oh man, the ratfuckery. she shut it down after about 2 weeks.
got 4k members in a week.
decent ppl who couldnt believe me when i tried to tell them they were in the crosshairs. couldnt believe that the ppl calling them out for being all white (they werent) were anything but concerned citizens. tried to tell them to cut them off at the knees. but they couldnt wrap their heads around it.

nothing surprises me any more.