‘We should all be scared to death’: Mike Lee would vote to repeal FISA

Published January 5, 2020 12:21am ET



A Republican senator said he would vote to repeal the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act following a scathing report that found serious problems in how the FBI sought to wiretap a former Trump campaign adviser.

Utah Sen. Mike Lee, a longtime critic of the FISA program, told One America News Network on Saturday that the audit released last month by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz was a wake-up call to “stop allowing the American people to be subjected to this type of abuse and manipulation.”

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