While live-tweeting Fox & Friends on Thursday morning, President Trump expressed alarm that the House of Representatives may approve a bill reauthorizing the the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) — legislation that was used to surveil Trump campaign officials as part of the FBI’s investigation into possible collusion with Russia.

But there’s just one problem — the Trump administration actually staunchly supports the FISA bill. In fact, on Wednesday evening, the White House Office of the Press Secretary released a statement that “urges the House to… preserve the useful role FISA’s Section 702 plays in protecting American lives.” As Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine notes, the Trump administration has also “sent its highest-ranking security officials to lobby Congress for reauthorization.”


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Must be a heavy TDS flow day.