Wednesday after tweeting “I’ve just taken to the Senate floor to begin a filibuster of the Patriot Act renewal,” 2016 presidential hopeful Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) challenged the Patriot Act saying, “I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a 2016 Republican presidential candidate, has taken control of the U.S. Senate floor to filibuster the PATRIOT Act over concerns that reauthorizing the national security bill would allow the National Security Agency (NSA) to continue the unlawful bulk collection of Americans’ personal records. Breitbart News will bring live updates as this process continues here.
On Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) took to the Senate floor to protest NSA surveillance practices. Follow Breitbart.tv on Twitter @BreitbartVideo
The ACLU and the Tea Party Patriots are uniting, at least on this one topic, by teaming up on a new video ad criticizing The Patriot Act.
Sen. Rand Paul says he will filibuster controversial aspects of the Patriot Act when they come up for reauthorization in the weeks ahead.
The Surveillance State faces stiff criticism in the United States. Limiting domestic surveillance, or at least subjecting it to more extensive oversight, is likely to be a prominent feature of several 2016 presidential campaigns. But in France, Parliament just took domestic surveillance up a notch, granting internal intelligence services “their most intrusive domestic spying abilities ever, with almost no judicial oversight,” as The New York Times puts it.
