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Rand Paul Files Suit Against Obama Over NSA's Collection of Metadata

Posted by Soulskill on from the bipartisan-effort-to-blame-the-other-party dept.

RoccamOccam writes Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is filing a class action lawsuit against President Obama and other members of his administration over the National Security Agency's collection of phone metadata, a practice he believes violates the Fourth Amendment. In a YouTube video released Tuesday, Paul compared the government surveillance to the warrantless searches practiced by the British military prior to American independence."

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  1. Re:Cult leader's son behaving like a cult leader by Defenestrar · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know, I think YouTube makes sense. After all, we just learned that it's the number one website in the world. A smart followup would be to edit Wikipedia entries (#2), and every politician has a staff to do that.

  2. Re:Good except for the politics by JWW · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your post is confusing we.

  3. But Timecube does discount everything else on the by sl3xd · · Score: 4, Funny

    The fact that Timecube exists doesn't automatically discount everything else on the internet.

    You obviously haven't actually spent much time reading Timecube. After Timecube, everything else on the internet can easily be discounted.

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