Retired Army Gen. Michael Flynn fired off a five-tweet barrage on Monday attacking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system, warning Americans that their right to privacy is under attack.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is a judicial panel that oversees American intelligence agencies in matters involving American citizens in the United States. This enigmatic figure came to light during the investigation into debunked claims made against former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
The FBI was able to conduct surveillance on the Trump campaign through repeated court applications containing falsified information, which grew into the “Russia collusion” investigation that plagued Trump’s presidency and cost Flynn the position of national security advisor he held briefly in the first days of the Trump administration.
“In the coming months, we will learn, among other serious problems (and there are many), that the FISC has become a parallel Supreme Court but operates in near total secrecy,” Flynn wrote.
Short Thread:
1. In the coming months, among other serious problems (& there are many), we are going to learn the FISC has become a parallel Supreme Court but operates in almost total secrecy. In 1975, Church stated, “hiding evil is the trademark of a totalitarian government.”— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) January 9, 2023
Flynn referred to former Democratic Sen. Frank Church of Idaho, who, as chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities, sparked reforms of America’s intelligence agencies in the 1970s. According to the Levin Center, the committee uncovered revelations of government spying on Americans.
“In 1975, Church stated, ‘hiding evil is the trademark of a totalitarian government. There is no more pernicious threat to a free society than a secret police…operating beyond the law…if these abuses had not been uncovered and had the agencies gone unchecked, we might well have seen a secret police develop in the United States. Once that begins the Constitution itself is in very real danger,’” Flynn wrote.
3. The Constitution itself is in very real danger.”
Church was right then and his words are exponentially more on point in 2023. Advances in technology, growth of a federal bureaucracy & deep seated corruption across the federal government has only expanded the government’s…
— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) January 9, 2023
Flynn wrote that Church and his work reverberate in the contemporary United States.
“Church was right then and his words are exponentially more on point in 2023. Advances in technology, growth of a federal bureaucracy & deep-seated corruption across the federal government have only expanded the government’s ability to destroy American’s 4th Amendment rights,” he wrote.
Flynn wrote that the time has come to protect Americans from intrusive government.
5. 🙏🏼 that our elected representatives have the moral fiber, integrity, & guts to call out & then do the right thing. Doing the right thing is really hard. America has sacrificed so much for so many, our fallen & our founders deserve the city on the hill to shine once again!
— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) January 9, 2023
“Now is the time to form another ‘Church-like’ committee to enact serious reforms & either disband the agencies or demand full compliance & accountability from an increasingly rogue security state ‘shadow government’
“[‘Pray’ emoji] that our elected representatives have the moral fiber, integrity, & guts to call out & then do the right thing,” he wrote.
“Doing the right thing is really hard. America has sacrificed so much for so many, our fallen & our founders deserve the city on the hill to shine once again!” Flynn wrote.
There is no reason for secret courts in America and there never should have been any in the first place. Sadly, that is what happens when corruption weasels its way into our system of government.
The American people are not to be spied on by their government in the name of “safety” at all.
Those in the government are the ones that are to be under intense scrutiny by the American people.
The government has lost the trust of the American people and it is time for a reboot and we flush these treasonous traitors out once and for all.
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