Did REPUBLICANS just vote to 'THROW AWAY the 4th Amendment'?!

The House of Representatives recently voted for an extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Section 702, which allows the warrantless surveillance of American citizens in certain cases.

However, this wasn’t just a Democrat effort.

147 Republicans voted for the extension, along with a majority of the Democrats.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) is in shock, saying the vote “just threw away the Fourth Amendment to our Constitution.”

73 Republicans and 45 Democrats voted against the extension.

Glenn Beck calls it “insanity,” asking Massie what those who voted for it were thinking.

“Well, Glenn, they put you in a SCIF here, one of these secret rooms without your phone, and they try to convince you the world’s going to end if you don’t allow them to reauthorize this, but that’s a false choice,” Massie explains.

While what has happened is far from good, there’s still a sliver of hope.

“People ask me ‘Is there any hope?’” Massie says, saying there’s a “5% chance we can fix it” and a “30% chance that it all goes to hell.”

But he plans on sticking it out through that “hell.”

“I can be here to try to put it back together,” he tells a somber Glenn.

Massie doesn’t want to defend them, but he doesn’t completely blame the 147 Republicans who “voted the wrong way,” either.

“They were given a false choice. They were saying, ‘If you don’t fund this program then we won’t be able to spy on terrorists, and oh, by the way, we’ve attached it to the military funding bill and the soldiers won’t get paid,’” Massie explains.

Glenn disagrees with Massie, in that those who voted poorly should be blamed.

“You’re being much too kind. I’m sorry, if you’re in Congress and you fall into that trap, which has been used over and over and over again by both sides, you’re a moron and not smart enough to be in Washington, D.C.,” Glenn says.

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