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“But we do not need to give up who we are to defeat them. In fact, we must not. There has to be another way. We must find it together. So tomorrow, I will force the expiration of the NSA illegal spy program.”

The man has a plan and a mission...

I applaud Paul’s efforts! I only wish the others in the GOP field had the courage to do the same. I don’t barter my rights away and have no respect for those that do.

I stand with the EFF and the Church Committee on this. The intelligence community was caught abusing their power and violating rights for political and unethical reasons in the 70’s.

“In the mid-70s, in response to revelation that the government was engaging in systematic domestic surveillance on domestic targets—including anti-war activists, academics, and government critics like Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon and Daniel Ellsberg—the distinguished Senator from Idaho, Frank Church, convened a Senate investigative committee that ultimately put a stop to large scale domestic spying for decades.”

The Church Committee reigned in these unconstitutional acts until the opportunity was seized after 9/11 to reintroduce them in the name of national security.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/response-nsa-we-need-new-church-commission-and-we-need-it-now

We need not only to let the Patriot Act expire, but we need to bring back the Church Committee for the good of the nation!