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Monday, June 01, 2015 12:08:06 AM
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.”
“He gambled that he could wait until the last minute and ram through a short-term reauthorization of the Patriot Act,
and he lost,” she said. “By the time he tried to backpedal and move the USA Freedom Act forward, it was too late.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/some-nsa-surveillance-powers-set-to-expire-sunday-unless-senate-acts/2015/05/31/42f215a2-066c-11e5-a428-c984eb077d4e_story.html
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Mitch McConnell Humiliated And Rand Paul Loses As Senate Votes To Advance USA Freedom Act
By: Jason Easley more from Jason Easley
Sunday, May, 31st, 2015, 8:27 pm
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wanted to extend the Patriot Act while Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wanted to kill
both the Patriot Act and USA Freedom Act. Both Republicans lost as the Senate voted 77-17 to advance the USA Freedom Act.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/05/31/mitch-mcconnell-humiliated-rand-paul-loses-senate-votes-advance-usa-freedom-act.html
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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?
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.”
“He gambled that he could wait until the last minute and ram through a short-term reauthorization of the Patriot Act,
and he lost,” she said. “By the time he tried to backpedal and move the USA Freedom Act forward, it was too late.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/some-nsa-surveillance-powers-set-to-expire-sunday-unless-senate-acts/2015/05/31/42f215a2-066c-11e5-a428-c984eb077d4e_story.html
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Mitch McConnell Humiliated And Rand Paul Loses As Senate Votes To Advance USA Freedom Act
By: Jason Easley more from Jason Easley
Sunday, May, 31st, 2015, 8:27 pm
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wanted to extend the Patriot Act while Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wanted to kill
both the Patriot Act and USA Freedom Act. Both Republicans lost as the Senate voted 77-17 to advance the USA Freedom Act.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/05/31/mitch-mcconnell-humiliated-rand-paul-loses-senate-votes-advance-usa-freedom-act.html
~~~
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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