House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Friday roundly applauded President-elect Donald Trump’s picks so far for his Cabinet, saying they sent a strong message to the American people that his next tenure will be about “expanding freedom.”
In a wide-ranging interview with Just the News, Jordan expressed particularly excitement for Trump’s pick of former Democratic congresswoman and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard to be the next Director of National Intelligence, saying he was hopeful she could be key to achieving long-awaited reforms of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) spying.
Jordan nearly succeeded in the last year in getting a requirement that U.S. intelligence and the FBI get a court-ordered warrant to spy on Americans’ phone calls overseas.
The measure failed in a tie vote, and Jordan said he plans to reintroduce the warrant requirement when the new Congress convenes in January.
“Having Tulsi at ODNI. I mean, she’s a champion of the First Amendment,” Jordan told the Just the News, No Noise television show. […]
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