We will explain the brief history of the spying law, why it is so uniquely pernicious – but more interestingly – the radically changing politics that is making this demand for renewal of the spying bill once something easily accomplished in Washington now, at least, somewhat in doubt.
We will definitely be following that debate as it unfolds but we want to give you the kind of primer and background on it tonight so that you're ready to not just watch, but hopefully participate in that. In other words, if Joe Biden is to win and get the spying powers he's demanding, he'll need Republican establishment votes, presumably in large numbers, in order to do it. Security State if Biden's demands for more powers are to be met. But what makes all this interesting and noteworthy – and potentially newsworthy – is that the same left-right populist coalition that just united to vote in favor of Matt Gaetz’s resolution to withdraw troops from Syria is starting to align again against renewal of the spying powers, meaning that, as so often happens, the establishment wings of the two parties will have to unite in defense of the U.S. The entire Democratic establishment is predictably in line, as always, behind the Biden administration's demands. The Biden administration is demanding that the spying law be not just renewed, but renewed with no reforms or safeguards of any kind. government to spy without warrants is once again up for renewal. A once highly controversial and radical law, enacted in 2008, that empowers the U.S.
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