'Completely mental': Stephen Miller skewered online over 'whining' rant on spy powers

Stephen Miller tried crying foul about a proposed check on the United States power to spy on Americans, only to be brutally mocked and fact-checked online.

Congressional lawmakers have been suggesting a requirement for federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies to seek approval to spy on Americans from judges from a court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Miller didn't like the idea, writing on X that, "A libertarian demand to make SecWar get approval from liberal DC judges (the ones who targeted Trump) is madness," and called spying on foreign soil "the core of all US security."

He added, "No conservative aim is ever served through subservience to leftist DC judges."

"Completely Mental that 'the core of all US security' is 'surveillance on foreign soil,'" shot back writer Curtis Yarvin. "No wonder all the asylum seekers come here. Other places do have a few small asylums but here it's the whole country."

Josh Gerstein, the senior legal affairs reporter for Politico, pointed out that "FISA judges come across the country," defeating Miller's claims that the Defense Secretary would have to deal with "DC judges."

"Two of the 11 are based in DC," Gerstein wrote, adding a link to the list of judges.

Former congressman Justin Amash wrote that, under FISA, "the government collects massive amounts of data on Americans while 'targeting' foreigners overseas," in a post.

"They then unconstitutionally search that data without a warrant for info on Americans," Amash continued. "The 'libertarian demand' he's whining about is called the Fourth Amendment."