An interesting lawsuit
Now this will be interesting to watch -- from
Politico:
Rand Paul files class-action suit vs. NSA
Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday officially filed his class-action lawsuit against the Obama administration over National Security Agency data collection, joining with two prominent tea party leaders to make the announcement.
Paul, a libertarian-leaning Kentucky Republican and potential presidential contender, inveighed against NSA surveillance and promised a �historic� lawsuit. He and his allies hope to take the case, which focuses on the NSA�s gathering of telephone metadata, to the Supreme Court.
�There�s a huge and growing swell of protest in this country of people who are outraged that their records are being taken without suspicion, without a judge�s warrant and without individualization,� Paul said at a news conference outside the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia�s former attorney general and last fall�s unsuccessful GOP nominee for governor, is serving as lead counsel for the case. Paul was also joined by Matt Kibbe, the president and CEO of the tea party-tied group FreedomWorks. The men stressed they wanted to make sure the NSA was not going beyond the boundaries of the Constitution.
�I�m not against the NSA, I�m not against spying, I�m not against looking at phone records,� Paul said. �I just want you to go to a judge, have an individual�s name and [get] a warrant. That�s what the Fourth Amendment says.�
Good idea -- the overreach is way to much. Time to re-establish the limits that our Founders created.
Posted by DaveH at February 12, 2014 12:46 PM