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Obama’s NSA Snoops Have Just Been Dealt A HUGE Setback That Could Shake Up The 2016 Race
Republican senator and presidential hopeful Rand Paul has done what he promised to do — lead the charge in the upper chamber to block, at least temporarily, the ability of the National Security Agency (NSA) to collect in bulk the phone records of millions of Americans. It was a bold and defiant move that some believe could cost Paul the GOP nomination for president in 2016.
The authorization under the Patriot Act for the NSA to gather phone metadata without citing a specific reason expired after midnight Sunday. However, as Fox News reports, the NSA snooping program hasn’t been killed, rather it’s just taken a body blow that halted it for a period of time. “…that program, as well as several other post-9/11 counterterrorism measures, were likely to be revived in some form in the coming days after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. reluctantly embraced a House-passed bill that would extend the anti-terror provisions, while also remaking the bulk collection program.”
A highly upset McConnell let his follow senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, know in no uncertain terms how unhappy he was with Paul’s forcing the consideration of an alternative bill known as the USA Freedom Act that was drawn up in the House.
“We shouldn’t be disarming unilaterally as our enemies grow more sophisticated and aggressive, and we certainly should not be doing so based on a campaign of demagoguery and disinformation launched in the wake of the unlawful actions of Edward Snowden,” McConnell said, referring to the former NSA contractor who revealed the agency’s bulk data collection program in June 2013.
As for Sen. Paul, he took for the floor of the chamber with a rather surprising take on the feelings of McConnell and other lawmakers who opposed his move to derail the NSA surveillance program. You can see what Rand Paul said were his opponents “secret” feelings by clicking on the video above.
This post originally appeared on Western Journalism – Equipping You With The Truth
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/obamas-nsa-snoops-have-just-been-dealt-a-huge-setback-that-could-shake-up-the-2016-race/
10)% clearly the writer of this story is clueless and does not research. They shifted all the same plus more laws to the Security Act you dummy… So the Patriot Act can be dead, but it was placed into another “Act” to fool you dummies… Just a shell game and a basic 101 Gov way of getting around all the laws for 50+ years and you stil don’t get it… Did a 12 year old think this up?
That was weird!
When Sen. McConnell, was up at the mike, this guy with a creepy looking cane (Egyptian?) and a paralyzed left arm and a mangled hand in a blue sling, shuffles over to Sen. Cochran, who is seated directly behind Sen. McConnell ‘n’ gives him an odd (3) stage hand-shake, leaving Sen. Cochran red-faced, as he shuffled away.
Whatever!
Upon finishing this post, I went to review the recorded video of said such, only to find that it has been scrubbed from my DVR……See how they are?
What Ever ~ Wrath Eve
Feed Google bunk data or stop using them and the NSA will soon become blind.
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