Doug Collins: Don't extend FISA without 'protections' from 'political vendetta'

Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) said Congress should not extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) without "real protections," given what happened to former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page during the 2016 presidential election.

"We need to have some information where we can actually put in protection that the information given to the court is, one, verified, number two, that it is actually accurate," Collins told Just the News at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

"And if there's some kind of a back and forth that could be there that doesn't slow up the process, but makes sure that our Fourth Amendment rights, especially of American citizens involved in things like this, are protected," he added.

Collins was asked how the Page situation could be avoided in the future.

"The easiest thing is for the FBI and others to actually not have corrupt people actually putting things before the FISA court, and I think the FISA court recognized that," Collins said. "I think that's what we've got to look at is finding ways to put the checks and balances in there so that there's not a political vendetta that we saw but again, you have massive corruption. When it goes from the FBI director on down, that's a problem."