Kudos to Rand Paul for forcing changes to the Un-Patriot Act, which spies on American citizens. Hopefully, the NSA snooping stops tonight and the bill doesn’t pass.
If there is a near term invasion of the USA, we can blame it on some quickly discovered anti-muslim video the result of which was to stir the pot..... You cannot tell what citizens and friendly international invaders will do when verbal objections are vaulted towards our enemies.
He hasn’t forced changes to anything. Provisions of the act expired. Now the question is what will the senate do next?
For the record, Jim Sensenbrenner (who was the original author of the Patriot Act) has slammed the O admin for their extensive over reach. The 2nd circuit has also declared the bulk metadata collection unconstituional (not that the DiC pays any attention tocourt rulings he doesn’t like).
Sensenbrenner was on Levin’s show the other day talking about his efforts to reform the act so that it can get back to the original intentions (which by the way were about listening to foreign terror suspects or known terrorists who were making calls into the US)