Louie Gohmert: “I so much appreciate my friend. I don't like to use ``colleague'' with Dana Rohrabacher because he is so much more than…”

“I so much appreciate my friend. I don't like to use ``colleague'' with Dana Rohrabacher because he is so much more than that. He is a dear friend and a brother, and I will treasure most of the times that we have spent together in traveling, trying to do right for the United States and the world. One other thing, Mr. Speaker, I want to touch on before we finish up, and that is the issue that is coming, we are told, this week, regarding Section 702 reauthorization. We are told that the folks in the deep state have made very clear they want what they call a clean reauthorization. Nothing clean about it when you look at how 702 is spent. So just spend a couple of minutes here, based on an article entitled ``How the FBI and DOJ Intelligence Units Were Weaponized Around Congressional Oversight'' from January 8, 2018. It goes through this scenario. Sometime in early 2016, Admiral Rogers--talking about Admiral Mike Rogers, not the Mike Rogers that was here in Congress--became aware of an ongoing and intentional violation of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Section 702 surveillance, specifically item 17, which includes the unauthorized upstream data collection of U.S.…”