Kash Patel
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They're not going to do it tomorrow or next week.
They'll wait like five years, whenever they want, the opportune time.
But it's happening now.
And as bad as that is, I still think we need FISA to manhunt those people down.
We just need people using it lawfully.
And it needs major, major reform.
Tons.
You raise a whole new—we're not just using FISA on terrorists.
It's a huge foreign intelligence surveillance act.
It is a massive intelligence collection tool, right?
How do we get the CCP?
What about the SVR?
You know, what about whatever intel service in wherever that's against America?
If it goes away, what are we going to do?
Why Al-Qaeda?
Because they're having a party in Afghanistan because of the disastrous withdrawal.
I ran the withdrawal in Afghanistan when I became chief of staff with the SecDef.
We didn't have a timeline.
We didn't say we got to be out by this date.
We had the diplomatic leaders doing the diplomatic thing.