Louie Gohmert: “There are four other topics I wanted to touch on. One, I was greatly surprised to find out about a motion and order by…”

“There are four other topics I wanted to touch on. One, I was greatly surprised to find out about a motion and order by the Obama administration in 2012 before the FISA court, because being on the Judiciary Committee--I wasn't there when the PATRIOT Act was passed; I have been there for reauthorization--I have grave concerns about some of the civil rights there. My colleagues across the aisle on the Judiciary Committee, many of them had extremely grave concerns when they were in the minority about civil rights and civil liberties, and those seem to have taken a backseat while the President was President Obama. I am hopeful that, now that there is not a Democrat in the White House, we can get some bipartisan concern again about civil liberties, after the Obama administration really did run roughshod over so many. One of the things we were assured in reauthorizing the FISA court, the procedures and all, is that no American, and this was in the PATRIOT Act as well, but no American would be caught up in any foreign surveillance or surveillance by our U.S. entities, whether CIA, NSA, whatever, unless the American citizen was engaged in a conversation with a known terrorist, foreign terrorist, or an agent of a known terrorist organization. Then through this colonoscopy, figuratively speaking, that the Trump campaign and administration were getting, we come to find out things were far more loose in protecting civil liberties and privacy rights.…”