Both men take this position contrary to the testimony of U.S. intelligence agencies before Congress that the USA Freedom Act gives them necessary new tools to identify and track the bad guys more effectively than currently possible without any need for bulk collection of telephone metadata held by the NSA.
Trump: Restore The Patriot Act [VIDEO]
Cruz voted to restore our Right to Privacy guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution for every law abiding citizen without compromising security.
That was theater, nothing more. And both of them know it.
It requires ALL data to be captured an help by the telecoms and internet companies.
Then the NSA has to request it as needed. Childs play.
The act made more data available to them and imposes nothing but a slight alteration in the procedure. And it privatized the storage. But the US government has still become the most intrusive government in human history. The Stasi, the Nazis, and the USSR never dreamed of getting so much information about every single citizen. They were limited by the technology of the day.
This is nothing for America to be proud of.