{"id":3401,"date":"2026-06-08T21:44:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:44:29","slug":"warners-continued-collaboration-with-trump-threatens-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3401","title":{"rendered":"Warner\u2019s Continued Collaboration with Trump Threatens Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After Bill Pulte\u2019s appointment<\/a>, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) has conspicuously failed to join the chorus of Democrats<\/a> and Republicans<\/a> calling for reforms to FISA that would protect privacy and democracy itself. Pulte\u2019s history<\/a> of weaponizing the government against President Donald Trump\u2019s political enemies was jarring enough to move previous opponents of FISA privacy protections, like Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto<\/a> (D-NV), to explicitly call for \u201creforms to ensure Americans\u2019 privacy and rights are protected.\u201d On the other hand, Warner, who is negotiating<\/a> with Republicans and the Trump administration to renew FISA, has only commented on how bad Pulte is<\/a> and notably stopped short of saying anything about FISA reform. This is particularly telling considering Warner\u2019s history<\/a> of promising future reforms to get FISA renewed and failing to deliver.<\/p>\n

The following is a statement from Demand Progress Executive Director Sean Vitka<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\u201cSen. Warner\u2019s opposition to Bill Pulte masks the fact that he is still the Democrats\u2019 chief advocate for handing over unchecked spying powers to the Trump administration. Pulte obviously must go, but he\u2019s also proof that this administration is eager and willing to use the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as a weapon. If Trump pulls Pulte, he can easily appoint another eager goon to fill the slot. By focusing on Pulte and not broader reforms, Sen. Warner is not standing up for Americans or the Constitution, he is disguising his work to engineer warrantless mass surveillance against us. We know this because he\u2019s been doing it publicly for months. An unprecedented, bipartisan movement is demanding privacy reforms but Sen. Warner\u2019s machinations threaten to derail this progress and hand Trump the surveillance powers he needs to threaten Americans and democracy itself for the rest of his administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

A robust set of resources on the need for privacy reforms for FISA are available here<\/a> and here<\/a>, and additional background, context, polling, reform demands, resources and other information is available here<\/a>. A video on Pulte from Jessica Craven can be found here<\/a> and a sample of the ways FISA has been used to wrongfully target protesters, journalists, politicians and others is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Bill Pulte\u2019s appointment, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) has conspicuously failed to join the chorus of Democrats and Republicans calling for reforms to FISA that would protect privacy and democracy itself. Pulte\u2019s history of weaponizing the government against President Donald Trump\u2019s political enemies was jarring enough to move previous opponents of FISA privacy protections, like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}