Posted on 05/31/2015 5:29:06 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Rand Paul’s presidential campaign wants to portray his fight to block any Patriot Act extension as a faceoff against President Barack Obama. But the Kentucky senator is waging an increasingly lonely battle.
Some of his usual tea party allies are abandoning him. House Republican leaders are not pleased with his antics. And then there’s Paul’s feud with the senior senator from Kentucky and the most prominent Republican to endorse his presidential campaign, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Put it this way — there aren’t many times that Obama, Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, Speaker John A. Boehner, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid all agree on something.
But this weekend, at least, they are singing off the same song sheet: Rand Paul is wrong.
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Not true, "secret" warrants which are delayed to be given has been the law for drug cases and organized crime for some time.
If you are unwilling to name the enemy you are completely unserious about security. As such, there is absolutely no good reason to give the government an inch on privacy.
Bump!
Have you noticed that every major media commentator on this subject has an off hand comment intended to make all of us little sheep suspicious and fearful. If they can’t spy on us we are so susceptible.
The media works for “them” (the elites) not us. They want we the people subservient, disarmed, beholden, brainwashed, infiltrated by the third world, and giving the elites and their cronies that run us, debt, our taxes and bailouts.
Every day they try to renew this is another day they don’t have momentum to pass other bad laws.
The government shutdown in 2013 was worth delaying momentum for amnesty.
It is ironic that Raul Labrador, Rand Paul and a few others support doing this. It stops their amnesty agenda all this toxicity in the Congress.
I agree. Less government intrusion and more freedom in our lives is always better in my view.
Untrue. The Patriot Act has been amended by the Senate and Congress as a whole NUMEROUS times since its original passage in 2001, starting with the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. Various changes over the years include major alterations of the roving wiretap provisions of the Patriot Act, modifications of Section 213 of the Patriot Act, merging previous provisions into a new section of Title 18 of the U.S. Code, increased congressional oversight for emergency disclosures by communication providers undertaken under section 212 of the Patriot Act, Section 215 was amended further regardless so as to give greater judicial oversight and review, Section 215 also had a "gag" provision, which was changed to allow the defendant to contact their Attorney, etc., etc.
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