Posted on 06/08/2013 12:55:28 PM PDT by Lou Budvis
Sen. Marco Rubio said the government surveillance programs that leapt back into the news this week are subject to "intense congressional oversight," and represent a difficult balance of privacy issues and national security interests.
He also suggested they are here to stay.
"Much of what that program involves is classified," Rubio said in an interview Thursday with Florida reporters, referring to the report about NSA phone monitoring. "I'll tell you that program is part of intense congressional oversight. It's a program members are aware of and they get to review from time to time and see how it's being applied."
A member of the Intelligence Committee, Rubio hedged when asked if the phone monitoring program was being misused.
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He is NOT a NBC ... and it shows.
Co.greasy can not be trusted. Period.
Rubio you are a f’n traitor! Are you so hispanic that you haven’t read American history or the Constitution???
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First: reviewing the program “from time to time” is not intensive oversight.
Second: What makes these dimwit congressmen think that they are being told the truth about anything.
Rubio is a RINO and is lost to the left.
When he’s up for re-election, Senator Rubio may discover that he’s not here to stay, as far as his political aspirations are concerned. Marco, you’re a disappointment.
I suggest dubious is not here to stay. Rubio is headed into Linda territory at a rapid rate.
Thanks for the breaking news Rube, do they have anything on the gangs in Congress?
Rubio needs to be primaried.
Don’t worry. The program that Congress just found out about through the press a few days ago is subject to intensive Congressional oversight.
If the news of the last few days is what we get after "intense Congressional oversight", maybe you folks could just leave well enough alone. We The People are getting angry enough to handle this ourselves.
As are almost all minority Republican politicians eventually. The pull of free government handouts to their “community,” along with government bullying and discrimination against the whites they hate, is too strong a pull for most minorities. Rare indeed is the Alen West or Clarence Thomas.
Another Tea Party candidate that turned on the people that put them in office. Rubio and Flake can go pound sand!
"Marco Rubio" is Spanish for Charlie Crist.
If Rubio doesn't think he can win re-election as a RINO, he will become an Independent or run as a Democrat.
If he still loses, he'll take a lobbying job for a few years before running for office or taking a presidential cabinet post as a token based on ethnicity or "bipartisanship."
Rubio always struck me as one of those man-child.
If this is the kind of “opposition” the GOP-e is giving to Obama’s attempted coup d’etat, there soon won’t be any elections for Rubio to worry about. Then again, maybe that’s his plan.
Alan West that voted for NDAA? I don’ trust him.
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