Sun sets on some NSA surveillance powers as Rand Paul foils extension .. one bit ..
Reid said the expiration of the Patriot Act provision can’t be blamed on Paul, who has long been an outspoken critic of overreach by the NSA. “We’re in this mess today because of the majority leader,” Reid said Sunday. “My friend from Kentucky simply didn’t have a plan. That’s why we’re here.”
Elizabeth Goitein, a national security expert at New York University Law School’s Brennan Center for Justice, said McConnell “badly overplayed his hand.”
I was surprised to see The Guardian see in it a victory of sorts for Rand Paul.
* Despite the fact Rand Paul is not getting the reforms he desired, this is still a big win for the Kentucky Republican. While Paul would likely describe the NSA reforms in the USA Freedom Act as deeply inadequate, the Kentucky senator has forced Mitch McConnell and many Republicans to support a bill that they found anathema just a week ago. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2015/may/31/nsa-patriot-act-surveillance-reform-usa-freedom-live
Maybe it was. Or, or would those Republicans have come around without Paul's grandstanding?
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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