{"id":5130,"date":"2013-06-11T11:06:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T11:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5130"},"modified":"2013-06-11T11:06:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T11:06:59","slug":"rand-paul-to-challenge-unconstitutional-snooping-by-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5130","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul to challenge unconstitutional snooping by US"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Kentucky Senator Rand Paul<\/strong> took to Fox News Sunday<\/em> to declare his legal opposition to the NSA\u2019s surveillance programs. \u201cI\u2019m going to be seeing if I can challenge this at the Supreme Court level,\u201d Paul said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to be asking all the internet providers and all of the phone companies: ask your customers to join me in a class action lawsuit,\u201d Paul told host Chris Wallace. \u201cIf we get ten million Americans saying we don\u2019t want our phone records looked at, then maybe someone will wake up and something will change in Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Like many lawmakers, Paul drew a distinction between targeted surveillance and the blanket surveillance revealed this week.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey are looking at a billion phone calls a day,\u201d Paul said. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t sound to me like a modest invasion of primary, it sounds like an extraordinary invasion of privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have no problem if you have probable cause, you target people who are terrorists, and you go after them,\u201d Paul continued. \u201cBut we\u2019re talking about trolling through billions of phone records\u2026That is<\/em> unconstitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Paul also said he would introduce the Fourth Amendment Restoriation Act, though he offered few details about the still-hypothetical legislation.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you talk to young people who use computers every day, they\u2019re absolutely with me,\u201d Paul said. \u201cWhat I spend on my Visa each month, that\u2019s my business, where I spend it, and whether I read conservative magazines, whether I subscribe to Fox News, or whether I subscribe to Yahoo or Google\u2014what I do with my private life is my private life. If you suspect me of a crime, have probable cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo much of our life now is digitalized, that we have to protect it from a snooping government,\u201d Paul said. \u201cWe\u2019ve now got a government that appears to target people based on their political beliefs. I don\u2019t want my phone records being given to an administration I can\u2019t trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Paul remembered that the public outrage against SOPA and PIPA legislation last year were somewhat successful in pushing back the laws, and predicted that if people reacted with similar severity to the current surveillance measures, they would be successful in repealing them. – MediaITE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul took to Fox News Sunday to declare his legal opposition to the NSA\u2019s surveillance programs. \u201cI\u2019m going to be seeing if I can challenge this at the Supreme Court level,\u201d Paul said. \u201cI\u2019m going to be asking all the internet providers and all of the phone companies: ask your customers to … Continue reading “Rand Paul to challenge unconstitutional snooping by US”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3030,2912,2604,2796,3031],"class_list":["post-5130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nsa","tag-prism","tag-rand-paul","tag-snooping","tag-us-phone-records"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/randpaulchallenge.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5133,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130\/revisions\/5133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}