“U.S. Sen. Rand Paul says President Barack Obama has been “disingenuous” regarding the National Security Agency’s bulk data collection program. The Kentucky senator — who announced in April that he is seeking the Republican Party’s 2016 presidential nomination — said that Obama has the authority to end the program at any time.
Paul was among other Republicans who blocked a final vote on extending government programs for collecting mobile data. He said a federal appellate court had ruled that, under the Patriot Act, the NSA program was illegal.
Paul told “CBS This Morning” that he had asked the president repeatedly to stop the program, and has wondered why Obama has not done so. Paul insisted that the request was not unreasonable on his part. He said that he was asking for two amendments and a simple majority vote on the bulk data program.”
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