Posted on 06/01/2015 3:01:58 AM PDT by Biggirl
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency lost its authority at midnight to collect Americans’ phone records in bulk, after GOP Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) stood in the way of extending the fiercely contested program in an extraordinary Sunday Senate session.
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Thank You Mr. Paul.
Now defeat the USA “Freedom” Act in the Senate. Good Luck with that.
The “USA Freedom” Act has as much to do with Freedom as the U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act had to do with Patriots.
Grandstanding on nothing. (Only a moron believes the NSA simply said “OK that’s it” and closed up shop)
Not getting excited about the NSA losing ‘Authority’ as the IRS, DOJ, EPA, et al, not to mention Golf-1 and the missus seem to skip along quite merrily deconstructing the Constitution absent any authority.
Exactly. First, Obama has his pen and phone. And they can probably get any info they want from the IRS which hasn’t been shut down.
The Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-collection, and Online Monitoring Act?
Who comes up with this crap? These are our leaders? Really? I mean...REALLY?!?
I wonder if the bill that introduced Prohibition had the short title U.S.A. F.R.E.E. B.E.E.R. Act.
I disagree. Folks are always complaining about the uninformed and disinterested voter. Rand Paul, by filibustering and being "out there" about first the drones and now NSA data collection has brought the issue of our freedom mainstream. He's got people talking, and in an overwhelming majority, about wanting to regain our privacy. He moved enough people so that the US Senate had to put off its sleazeball sell-out of US citizens. Now a lot more people are vocal about that and selling out on US jobs. US policies being in a great part responsible for the horrific situation in the Mideast is now part of the disgust people are expressing. Can't wait until he starts in on how the Federal Reserve has destroyed the US economy, and continues to do so.
He's also outed a lot of supposed constitutional conservatives who campaigned with promises to defend the Constitution and our principles, then get to DC and find ways to manufacture a win for Obama (and their wallets) every time.
Can the anger propel Rand Paul to the nomination? Who knows? But it's good that someone is shaking things up!
Big F’ing deal. Now they’ll just go back to collecting any data they want illegally. If anyone thinks the federal government has been bound by the law in living memory, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
Yeah, I’ll bet the nsa ran right over to the Breaker Box and flipped that one to the “off” position.
Now back to that Swampland I have for sale in Arizona and the Anarctic...
Does anyone really believe that an act of Congress will even slow down this administration.
BTW, nice tag line.
I wouldn’t worry too much. They’ll find another way to do the same thing, just give them time. One thing about “GOVERNMENTS”, they either have to get bigger or that government will die. It’s the job of governments to eventually oppress their people. Oh, they’ll hide behind the CONSTITUTION, while they eviscerate the CONSTITUTION.
One thing we do know is that our government continues to seed America with muslims.
Bingo! By the way, if you have Netflix, I recommend watching "Money for Nothing". It's a documentary how the Fed has engineered one financial bubble after another and its "solutions" have always resulted in another bubble. The blowup of the housing bubble in 2008, caused by the Fed, has been answered by the Fed's ZIRP policy which has now created Housing Bubble 2.0.
The telephone records in question are not personal property and are not private. Further the nature of the messages/calls are not revealed.
Like the man said, Paul was as usual grandstanding on nothing
That's where we disagree. Grandstanding or not (who knows?), Rand Paul is shaking up US citizens so much that it has become mainstream to be concerned about our rights. It's very new that the US Senate actually was affected by what US citizens are concerned about.
It's also outing supposed Constitutional Conservatives as they're forced to comment about how the feel about issues the nation confronts.
where does the constitution say you have a right to documents owned and possessed by others?
I agree. You know it gets old around here. People whine and complain, but when someone does ANYTHING, they just whine and complain more saying, “but it’s not enough.” Kudos to Paul. I’m a Cruz supporter, but this was a necessary and laudable step.
I agree with Rand Paul about issues of freedom and privacy. We've lost so much since my childhood, and we certainly aren't safer or freer for it.
I don’t believe that Rand was ‘grandstanding’. He went after something was wasn’t being used the way it was written.
If this ACT was helping, why didn’t it catch the Fort Hood shooter? Why didn’t it catch the ‘boston bombers’?
What Rand did was bring out into the public eye the misuse...do I think its going to stop...no...but we know more now than we did...
Should Rand do more, yes...immigration, TTP, IRS, Clinton files, and maybe he will, but at least he’s doing something....
I don’t see the rest of the candidates doing anything but going around the country talking about ‘this is what I will do’ and ‘that is what I would have done’ just like everyone that campaigns, but when they get the ‘office’ they do the ‘kool aid’ drinking...
Rand has stood up and done something, and you can bet that bambaboy has a ‘terrorist’ act up his sleeve waiting to happen so he can: (1) tell the American people “See I told you so” and (2) get ready to cause a huge problem to enact Marshall Law so doesn’t have to leave office....
“it’s good that someone is shaking things up! “
Excellent. Every single one of the GOP candidates has criticized him and attacked him on phone and internet surveillance, offering little except name-calling and empty talk.
What to do about the Federal Reserve (that is, exactly how to end it gracefully) and whether to draw-down expensive and useless US overseas troop involvements are the main debates the GOP should have. Without Paul, they will not even discuss it.
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