Rep. Chris Stewart: Biden team's terrifying plan to spy on Americans – here's why we must stop this abuse

With the White House now suggesting they will turn the resources of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) inward to conduct domestic surveillance, they seek the power to covertly target and retaliate against political opponents, potentially silencing dissent. 

Given the way Obama operatives created a Russian collusion conspiracy out of whole cloth to serve their political agenda, Americans should be more than just leery of the administration’s justifications for this expanded surveillance. They should be terrified.  We must protect our constitutional rights.  I stand with my Republican colleagues on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) to oppose this abuse. Politicizing our surveillance apparatus isn’t the beginning of a slippery slope, it’s the edge of a cliff, and we should never walk off.