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Trump tasked Jay Clayton with investigating Democrats’ ties to Epstein. Now he’s nominating Clayton to be the nation’s top spy and Dems @markwarner.bsky.social & Rep. Jim Himes are practically gushing over him.
No one should celebrate the fact that Trump just named his Epstein hatchet man to ODNI
AI Money Watch is a new project from Demand Progress that uses FEC filings to track every dollar from Leading the Future. See our methodology here:
Execs from companies like OpenAI pumped millions into Leading the Future, a Super PAC that is trying to buy politicians who will kill AI safeguards and bury anyone who fights back.
Go to aimoneywatch.org to see who's being bankrolled by them and who they're trying to stop.
Yet again, Speaker Johnson tried to jam through a FISA bill with no privacy reforms. And yet again, he failed—this time without even getting a simple majority of the House on his side.
If he wants a FISA deal, all he has to do is allow amendment votes on warrant requirements.
And see Demand Progress's press release here
The progressive nonprofit Demand Progress has set up a new monitoring effort, called AI Money Watch, to follow one particular AI PAC called Leading the Future. prospect.org?p=139608
Congress is staring down the barrel of a manufactured crisis. prospect.org?p=139660
Senator Cornyn just blocked a 9-month extension of Section 702 with a warrant requirement for backdoor searches. He then blocked a 5-week extension with no warrant requirement, just basic transparency measures. 1/2
Section 702 sunsets today. What’s next? Surveillance can continue until March 2027 under a grandfather clause. In the meantime, Congress must take this opportunity to build real protections for Americans’ privacy into any Section 702 2.0. 1/17
