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Paul said he voted against the bill because it would have extended the Patriot Act provision that allows the NSA to search Americans’ phone records. He has consistently opposed the Patriot Act, passed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Leahy’s bill extended the provision’s expiration to June 2017 — as a compromise, in order to change the law to stop the NSA from holding onto phone records. Under Leahy’s bill, that duty would have been handed off to phone companies. The companies’ records could only have been searched with a surveillance court’s order.
While Paul said he “felt bad” that the bill failed, because it “probably needed my vote,” he also claimed the country was “one step closer to restoring civil liberties,” because the Patriot Act provision’s expiration date will not be extended.
Paul’s bedfellows on the vote to kill NSA reform made doomsaying predictions on the Senate floor, saying the legislation would allow Islamic State terrorists to perpetrate another 9/11.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/18/rand-paul-nsa-reform-bill_n_6182204.html
What a smarmy, self-serving prick Little Randy is.
He sidesteps a tough vote with some lame assed excuse knowing full and goddamn well that the expiration of the entire Patriot Act is not now, nor will it ever be, on offer in any Congress of which he is a member.
Ted Cruz is a step above that slimy little shit.
Paul said he voted against the bill because it would have extended the Patriot Act provision that allows the NSA to search Americans’ phone records. He has consistently opposed the Patriot Act, passed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Leahy’s bill extended the provision’s expiration to June 2017 — as a compromise, in order to change the law to stop the NSA from holding onto phone records. Under Leahy’s bill, that duty would have been handed off to phone companies. The companies’ records could only have been searched with a surveillance court’s order.
While Paul said he “felt bad” that the bill failed, because it “probably needed my vote,” he also claimed the country was “one step closer to restoring civil liberties,” because the Patriot Act provision’s expiration date will not be extended.
Paul’s bedfellows on the vote to kill NSA reform made doomsaying predictions on the Senate floor, saying the legislation would allow Islamic State terrorists to perpetrate another 9/11.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/18/rand-paul-nsa-reform-bill_n_6182204.html
What a smarmy, self-serving prick Little Randy is.
He sidesteps a tough vote with some lame assed excuse knowing full and goddamn well that the expiration of the entire Patriot Act is not now, nor will it ever be, on offer in any Congress of which he is a member.
Ted Cruz is a step above that slimy little shit.
