Rand Paul digs in on NSA surveillance
Posted on AllSides May 20th, 2015
From The Left
Sen. Rand Paul is at it again.
More than two years after a 13 hour filibuster, the Kentucky senator and 2016 GOP presidential contender is back on the Senate floor. This time, he's protesting the National Security Agency's dragnet surveillance programs targeting Americans.
"There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged," Paul said at the opening...