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EXCLUSIVE: Rubio Defends NSA Spying on Netanyahu In Private, Condemns It In Public
Breitbart ^ | December 30, 2015 | Patrick Howley

Posted on 12/30/2015 7:15:14 PM PST by JSDude1

BOONE, IOWA – Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)

79%

privately defended the National Security Agency’s (NSA) spying on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even as he publicly condemned the practice. Rubio and his ally Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC)

86%

discussed the matter privately in a room away from reporters early Wednesday morning at the Royal Amsterdam Hotel in Pella, Iowa. The two men talked before they set out on a three-stop Iowa campaign tour to showcase Gowdy’s endorsement of Rubio.

This reporter heard the conversation while picking up a laptop computer and other materials left in a back room, away from where reporters were eating breakfast. Rubio, Gowdy, a couple of campaign staffers, and a Secret Service agent were the only ones present in the back room.

The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the NSA monitored Netanyahu’s conversations, including conversations with U.S. legislators

“We spy on everyone,” Rubio told Gowdy, defending the practice of spying on a U.S. ally. “That’s the nature of intelligence.”

“It’s more complicated than the [WSJ] story makes it seem,” Rubio added.

Gowdy responded that people are upset because the U.S. decided to stop spying on leaders of Germany and some other nations, but still spies on Israel.

But Rubio sang a different tune around the same time Wednesday morning on the Fox News program “Fox and Friends.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Israel; Politics/Elections; Russia; US: Florida; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; flipflop; florida; iran; israel; janus; lebanon; marcorubio; newyork; nsa; president; putingaveemthebomb; rubio; russia; trump; twoface; waronterror
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Who's the CONSISTENT CONSERVATIVE, Rubio?!

Looks like you've been caught. How the mighty have fallen..

1 posted on 12/30/2015 7:15:14 PM PST by JSDude1
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To: JSDude1

Turncoat!


2 posted on 12/30/2015 7:16:29 PM PST by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: JSDude1

Screw him.


3 posted on 12/30/2015 7:19:07 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Who is Rubio


4 posted on 12/30/2015 7:20:24 PM PST by scooby321
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To: JSDude1

Who’s the CONSISTENT CONSERVATIVE, Rubio?!
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Hey!! Give the little guy a break....after all, he is CONSISTENTLY DUPLICITOUS. That should count for something.


5 posted on 12/30/2015 7:20:49 PM PST by House Atreides (Cruz or lose! Do TG & Boogieman have to be asses every day?)
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To: JSDude1

Nobody has a problem spying on Israel. The despotic part is that the NSA has been spying on Congress. That is 100% classic police state totalitarian crap.


6 posted on 12/30/2015 7:22:47 PM PST by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: JSDude1

Yet another lie by M. Rubio.


7 posted on 12/30/2015 7:23:01 PM PST by apocalypto
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To: JSDude1

Marco 2bio


8 posted on 12/30/2015 7:23:11 PM PST by tinyowl (A equals A, And C Edmund Wright thinks I am an idiot and a Trump Sycophant)
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To: wjcsux
Rubio has reportedly locked up the support of neoconservative donor Paul Singer, and is competing for the support of neoconservative donor Sheldon Adelson.

Well, if Sheldon Adelson believes this report no financial support from this multibillionaire Zionist will be forthcoming.


9 posted on 12/30/2015 7:25:37 PM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford

What’s Adelson’s email (in full disclosure of the facts)..He is a billionaire so he is smart enough to make up his own mind, but should have all the facts!


10 posted on 12/30/2015 7:28:45 PM PST by JSDude1
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To: nathanbedford

Sheldon’s wife loves Ted Cruz.


11 posted on 12/30/2015 7:29:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: scooby321

Jennifer’s Mini Me..


12 posted on 12/30/2015 7:30:10 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: JSDude1

And ill go one further. Our endless spying has caused more wars than its ever prevented. The best defense against a new Pearl Harbor isn’t for us to act like Europeans and become the Stasi of the world.

It is for us to be forthright and honest, and to be so damned strong and certain in a brutal response that nobody dares throw that sucker punch. Then we can skip the secret treaty behind double cross deal eurocrap.

Think of it as the toughest guy you ever knew, who lives in a neighborhood, is an above board honest neighbor. He is safe because of his honesty, and his strength. He doesn’t need to peek into the neighbors window and steal their mail to stay safe.


13 posted on 12/30/2015 7:30:11 PM PST by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: JSDude1; RoosterRedux; Jane Long; nopardons; hoosiermama; RitaOK

Yet ANOTHER STELLAR ROTTEN example of politics D.C. style ...

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it's this devious insider crap that only serves to shore up my decision to vote for Mr. Trump!


14 posted on 12/30/2015 7:31:02 PM PST by onyx
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Yep...We the People have had it with DC insiders.

Trump....the ONLY candidate NOT owned.


15 posted on 12/30/2015 7:32:24 PM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: JSDude1

Rubio really is a clusterfu!#.


16 posted on 12/30/2015 7:33:15 PM PST by gwgn02
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To: JSDude1

Screwbio


17 posted on 12/30/2015 7:34:07 PM PST by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free....)
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To: onyx

check your mail


18 posted on 12/30/2015 7:34:55 PM PST by Clyde5445
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To: Clyde5445

OH, all right.
Thanks!


19 posted on 12/30/2015 7:35:36 PM PST by onyx
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To: DesertRhino

And spying on congress by the executive branch is impeachable. But nothing will happen because Obama has Ryan’s family jewels pickled and hanging around his neck as an amulet.


20 posted on 12/30/2015 7:35:41 PM PST by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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