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Wait and see? Ted Cruz is coming precariously close to shutting the book on any trust I had left in the government.


39 posted on 06/17/2013 4:03:22 PM PDT by Cato in PA (Smile, you're on NSA camera!)
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To: Cato in PA; Vendome; OneWingedShark; 0.E.O; SeminoleCounty; GeronL; laplata; stanne; ...
Ted Cruz is the most solid conservative in any branch of government and any office IMO. It's best to use his own official words in order to rightly judge what he believes on NSA surveillance:

Press Release of Senator Cruz - Sen. Cruz Statement on NSA Phone Surveillance

But on one hand the Obama Administration says this enemy is in retreat, yet on the other, they are implementing what appears to be an unprecedented and intrusive surveillance system on private American citizens in the name of guarding against that enemy. Just today, the president encouraged us to trust him on this – to trust that there are safeguards to ensure our privacy is protected, trust that there is a system of checks and balances to prevent an abuse of power. But in light of this Administration's track record, how can they expect to be trusted?

We have discovered over the past few months an ongoing pattern of wanton disregard not only for Americans' privacy, but for the truth – DOJ's refusal to be forthcoming about drone policy, IRS's targeting groups for their political beliefs and then misleading the American people about it, DOJ's targeting of journalists for doing their jobs, and now what seems an unprecedented intrusion into Americans' personal phone records and potentially into their broader online activities.

Americans trusted President Obama when he came to office promising the most transparent administration in history. But that trust has been broken and the only way to earn it back is to tell the truth. That's what Americans deserve. I will be working with my colleagues in the Senate who share my concerns to ensure that we have all the facts about these surveillance programs, and that our government is appropriately balancing concerns of national security with Americans' personal liberties.

Sheeeh! What is it with supposedly like-minded people who take one little comment and make a false doctrine out of it?
115 posted on 06/18/2013 10:53:52 AM PDT by uncommonsense (Liberals see what they believe; Conservatives believe what they see.)
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