(0915) Still not quite well, will run a very special TV episode after this and have a snooze if I can.
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6. IYE from yesterday
More broken promises.
“Sold Out at 2a.m.”
https://theleahfiles.substack.com/p/sold-out-at-2am-part-1
“ At 2:09 in the morning on Friday, April 17, 2026, with most of the country asleep, the United States House of Representatives voted to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The program allows intelligence agencies to compel internet service providers to hand over the communications of foreigners located abroad, without a warrant. In practice, it has been used to sweep up the emails, texts, and phone calls of millions of Americans who happen to communicate with anyone overseas.
The vote was not supposed to happen that way. House Speaker Mike Johnson had originally scheduled the vote for Wednesday afternoon. It was supposed to be a straightforward five-year reauthorization. But the plan fell apart. A bipartisan coalition of privacy hawks demanded a warrant requirement for searching Americans’ data. Other factions wanted the bill loaded with unrelated immigration provisions. Johnson pulled the vote Wednesday. He tried again Thursday. Multiple proposals failed. A five-year extension died. An 18-month compromise died. About 20 Republicans joined most Democrats in killing it.
So they waited. They waited until the cameras were off, until the reporters had gone home, until the C-SPAN audience was in bed. And at 2:09 AM, they passed a 10-day emergency extension by voice vote. No recorded roll call, no individual accountability. The Senate rubber-stamped it unanimously the next morning.…”
