Civil Liberties on the Joe Rogan Experience

“they froze people's bank accounts that donated money to the convoy”

Joe Rogan claims that during the Canadian trucker convoy protests the government froze the bank accounts of people who donated money to the convoy.

“Section 702 of FISA gives our government the authority to surveil foreign actors, essentially, to try to identify terrorist threats. But part of that is they h…”

Section 702 of FISA lets the government surveil foreign actors and capture the communications of Americans who talk with those foreign targets.

“That court, and this is public information, that court approves 99.999999% of all requests that the government makes to go in and surveil American citizens. It…”

The FISA court approves about 99.999999 percent of government requests to surveil, making it essentially a rubber stamp.

“The US government spies on its own population more than the north korean government spies on its. That's just a fact.”

Carlson asserts as fact that the US government surveils its own citizens more than North Korea surveils its population.