Sen. Mike Lee
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338 appearances
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 20 Jun
Sen. Mike Lee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, look,
Pfizer 702 serves a useful purpose.
I've never disputed that.
It does good things for the American people when it's used properly.
The problem is that it's too easy to abuse.
All we're asking for, we're saying, go ahead and reauthorize it.
But if you want our support for it, you've got to require the government to get a warrant.
from the FISA court before they start doing what we call US citizen or US person queries, where you're searching for a particular person's private communications that were incidentally collected on this FISA 702 database in connection with a foreign intelligence investigation.
That's a type of backdoor warrantless search that Americans are increasingly skeptical of.
And that's what they need to do.
Now, what baffles me is that they're unwilling to even negotiate that.
It's a very reasonable request.
It wouldn't be nearly as difficult even as an ordinary court warrant because it's a different context.
And it can be substantially narrower than that.
But this does need to happen.
And if they would do that, there's a huge group of us that would help them pass it tomorrow.
What's stunning to me is how defiantly unwilling they are to listen to the American people who increasingly are skeptical of Pfizer 702 without a warrant.
I really don't know any details about what this deal has in it.
But what I do know, Glenn, is that when Barack Obama made a really bad deal about 10 years ago with Iran in the form of the JCPOA,
That moved from a standpoint of American weakness.
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