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Congress now has compelling evidence that a letter from 51 security experts during the 2020 election falsely portraying the Hunter Biden laptop as a Russian influence operation was in fact Joe Biden campaign propaganda. Now armed with the truth, GOP lawmakers are looking to impose consequences for the organizers and the signatories. ...

Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.), a key voice on the House Appropriations and Judiciary Committees, said another important consequence lawmakers will impose later this year is warrantless spying reform that will restrict the FBI from searching Americans' phone records looking for evidence to open up Foreiugn Intelligence Surveillance Court cases, as happened with the Russia collusion probe in 2016. The Section 702 warrantless spying provision of the FISA law expires at the end of the year. ...

"There are members of the Judiciary Committee who want to see it expire completely — and don't think that the FBI can be trusted to keep its hands out of the 702 process — and leave it to the CIA and the focus on what it was originally focused on, which was foreign soil and foreign-based terrorism searches and fights," Cline told the John Solomon Reports podcast. "They just can't help themselves. And that may be true. ... Others want to try and reform the 702 process, to say that the domestic entities like the FBI can't take advantage of it, that it's only for CIA, and not to let it expire, but to put guardrails around it. Others want to reauthorize it as it is, and that's a shrinking number, given the abuses that have occurred. But we're having a good conversation. And I would expect you're going to see legislation here soon. There are a lot of us on Judiciary who put the Fourth Amendment protections for Americans first. And we want to make sure that legislation, if it does reauthorize 702, it does protect those rights first."