Doubtless he will have a TEA party opponent, and the GOPe will do all they can to keep him from losing to a TEA party candidate, no matter what, even if it means bleeding the GOP coffers utterly dry.
Posted on 02/13/2014 5:23:29 AM PST by cotton1706
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., panned a lawsuit against National Security Agency data collection filed by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., saying that the bulk phone data collection program does not involve the Fourth Amendment.
"I think collecting data is not a Fourth Amendment activity if it's related to gathering intelligence to prevent a terrorist attack," Graham told the Washington Examiner. "It's not being used to prosecute anybody. This is an intelligence-gathering process and we'll leave it up to the courts to see if it somehow has violated the Fourth Amendment."
Paul told reporters that the program conflicts directly with the Fourth Amendment. "I just want you to go to a judge, have a person's name, and individualize their warrant," he said, explaining that he doesn't oppose spying or the National Security Agency's ability to review some phone records. "That's what the Fourth Amendment says. I'm not against going to an individual who we suspect, with a warrant, and getting their phone records, and then if they called 100 people, I'm not against looking at those people."
The lawsuit drew mixed reactions in the Senate. Virginia Democrat Tim Kaine said that the NSA program needs some curtailing, but suggested that the real problem lies with the nature of the authorization for the use of military force that provides the legal backdrop for what used to be called the war on terror.
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*facepalm*
Doubtless he will have a TEA party opponent, and the GOPe will do all they can to keep him from losing to a TEA party candidate, no matter what, even if it means bleeding the GOP coffers utterly dry.
We already know that this is a lie thanks to some Snowden documents. They are passing along information to any number of other domestic agencies who are then lying about what their sources are.
This is absolutely a 4th amendment issue.
Lying bastard.
It's going to come as a surprise to some people that they've been placed on various 'naughty' lists based on their associations. I'm sure some are probably going to be dinged on their 'how slavish is this citizen unit' score for their association with me, for instance.
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