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Dick Cheney: Rand Paul is wrong on government surveillance
Washington Post ^ | June 16 2013 | Sean Sullivan

Posted on 07/19/2013 11:10:19 PM PDT by WilliamIII

Former vice president Dick Cheney said Sunday that Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was wrong to suggest that the government’s recently revealed sweeping surveillance techniques are an invasion of Americans’ privacy. “Two-thirds of the Congress wasn’t here on 9/11, or for that period immediately after when we got into this program,” Cheney said on “Fox News Sunday.” He later added: “When you consider the possibility of somebody smuggling something like a nuclear device into the United States, it becomes very, very important to gather intelligence on your enemies and stop that attack before it ever gets launched.”

Cheney defended a National Security Agency program to collect phone records from millions of Americans, about which Paul has expressed deep concerns. The Kentucky senator announced last week that he has taken steps toward bringing legal action against the government over its surveillance efforts.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 1984; 4a; cheney; dickcheney; kentucky; randpaul; randsconcerntrolls; waronterror
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To: doc1019

Between Rand Paul and Dick Cheney, I think I will go with Rand Paul.

We have lost and maimed enough heroes for WHAT? We have been meddling in countries that have no U.S. national security interest. Protect Israel, to hell with the rest of them. Bombs not boots, when necessary.


61 posted on 07/20/2013 4:59:45 AM PDT by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Sherman Logan; sickoflibs
Lets see, we got secret judges making secret decisions and secret enforcement and only one side gets to present their case to them and 99% they win against no opposition. And under Obama.

To be fair, these decisions are for the approximate equivalent of search warrants. I don't recall the target of a proposed search warrant ever being given the opportunity to show why it should not be granted.
Search warrants have to be disclosed. They are limited in scope and duration. And if the police get a warrant to search my house they eventually have to leave it; they don't get to stand around watching just in case I later do something they don't like.

We have a procedure for issuing search warrants in this country, authorized under and subject to the Constitution. The fact that our existing process wasn't good enough for the government, and it needed a secret process that we didn't know about and couldn't access even if we did, tells us these aren't "the approximate equivalent of search warrants" at all.

I didn't have a lot of time for Rand Paul before, but you know a man by his enemies. Having the Cheney family among them means Paul is going up in my estimation.
62 posted on 07/20/2013 5:10:39 AM PDT by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: doc1019

I think I will stick with the 4th Amendment.


63 posted on 07/20/2013 5:12:12 AM PDT by unixfox
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To: Leaning Right

We already are. Our country is dying before our eyes.

Not sure if we will ever recover.


64 posted on 07/20/2013 5:14:00 AM PDT by NoKoolAidforMe (I'm clinging to my God and my guns. You can keep the change.)
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To: doc1019

Screw cheney, he supports globalism, gay marriage, and amnesty.


65 posted on 07/20/2013 5:14:33 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: WilliamIII

Of course it is important to know what a Nation’s “Enemies” are up to.

The key word here is “Enemies”.

Spy on America’s “Enemies” all you want.

The NSA, IRS, EPA, DOJ, TSA, HSA, CIA, and other Harassment and Surveillance has been targeting AMERICAN CITIZENS, and for exercising their 1st and 2nd Amendment Rights.


66 posted on 07/20/2013 5:14:40 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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To: highball

My point was simply that the issuance of warrants has never been subject to contention by the object of the warrant.

Not that these warrants are a good or constitutional idea.

The Fourth Amendment prohibits “general warrants” as issued under the Crown. These warrants bear an uncomfortable resemblance.


67 posted on 07/20/2013 5:15:25 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

“The Fourth Amendment prohibits “general warrants” as issued under the Crown. These warrants bear an uncomfortable resemblance.”

But its for your safety and the chilldruuun.


68 posted on 07/20/2013 5:18:34 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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69 posted on 07/20/2013 5:19:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: driftdiver

The problem for the government here is the difference between intelligence gathering and criminal investigation.

Intelligence gathering by definition requires looking at an enormous mass of material to determine which of it requires more careful observation. Look at the criticism of the government after 9/11 for not having prevented the attacks. The only way they could conceivably have done so is by separating the signal of the attackers plot out of a nearly infinite amount of background noise.

I suspect a major reason why the NSA is looking at “everything,” is political correctness. Somewhat similar to searching everybody by the TSA.

Can’t focus on the more likely dangers, that would be profiling. So they are forced to gather data on everybody if they want to have data on the real threats.

Not saying they’re right in doing so, just that this is the dynamic at work.


70 posted on 07/20/2013 5:26:06 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Leaning Right

Yeah, he’s king of the chickenhawks. Lieberman is Queen. Honorable mention goes to Frank Gaffney. He makes McCain look like a pacifist and he also got five deferments. And don’t forget Bolton.


71 posted on 07/20/2013 5:30:38 AM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (I remember when a President having an "enemies list" was a scandal. Now, they have a kill list.)
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To: WilliamIII

In protecting his daughter, Dick is overlooking the purpose of the spying. Perhaps had the Republicans been as willing as their counterparts to use their intelligence gathering to fix the news and the elections we wouldn’t have had the current government mess.

He who controls the information and the information providers has some latitude in how the world runs.


72 posted on 07/20/2013 5:34:26 AM PDT by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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To: doc1019
Between Rand Paul and Dick Cheney, I think I will go with Cheney.

You gotta be kidding me! Every one of the abuses & overreach by 0dumb0 were put in place by pandering dumb ass GW Bush and Dick Cheney. Ben Franklin described it accurately when he said those who sacrifice freedom for security, end up with neither. That's exactly where we are today. The NSA has not protected us from ANY terrorist threats or attacks. In fact they couldn't even protect us from the Boston Marathon bombers with all sorts of warnings posted about them.

You would rather go with NWO, CFR, pro-homo, pro-lesbian, pro-gay marriage, pro gubmint intrusion, pro-Islam "religion of peace", anti-TEA Party, anti-Christian, anti-conservative, Dick Cheney.

I would rather go with conservative Libertarian Rand Paul in a heart beat!

73 posted on 07/20/2013 5:40:28 AM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: WilliamIII
I really hate to have to do this but here goes.." Dick Cheney to the people of the US,

" We have to bug your granny's phone, your daughter's phone, your phone and your wife's phone...just in case you might be a terrorist.

Then, and only then, we will let you blow up Boston at your digression.

74 posted on 07/20/2013 5:46:34 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: Earthdweller

discretion.. but I digress.


75 posted on 07/20/2013 5:48:01 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: sickoflibs
Cheney needs to find another hobby, he has done enough damage.

When GWBush made that sharp leftist turn after his reelection, Cheney went with him.

In for a penny, in for a pound.


76 posted on 07/20/2013 5:56:27 AM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: WilliamIII
Dick, you and Dubya had your chance to stamp out Islamism for good on 12 Sept 2001. You had the whole country with you. Only the tiniest left wing fringe would have objected.

And you muffed it. Completely. Whether it was incompetence, Saudi and Kuwaiti influence buying, or simply lack of willpower, you screwed the pooch, throwing thousands of American lives and trillions of dollars down the rathole.

So just shut up and go away.

77 posted on 07/20/2013 6:01:41 AM PDT by Notary Sojac (I call it messin' with the kid.)
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To: doc1019

I think I will go with the Constitution.

One of the problems with Cheney’s view is that it is somewhat hypocritical. The government is not doing much spying on the bad guys. All this is being used to control us. The preparations are against us. The people profiled are us. The people targeted for harassment are us.

And so on, ad nauseum.

Outside the country, the same government is supporting & funding terrorists. Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood. “Negotiations” with the Taliban. How long before Obozo starts funding the Taliban? Not as far fetched as one would think.


78 posted on 07/20/2013 6:05:02 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: Sherman Logan

Thats possible but I don’t think so. They are doing this because they can. They now have the technology and the (unconstitutional) authority to do this. They sit back and build a case that they might be able to find an enemy this way and of course it fits into Bam bams agenda.

Its how govts and people in positions of power have always functioned when they don’t have any controls.

BTW FU NSA


79 posted on 07/20/2013 6:11:34 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: WilliamIII

Yep, still sticking with Rand.


80 posted on 07/20/2013 6:12:36 AM PDT by arderkrag (An Unreconstructed Georgian, STANDING WITH RAND.)
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