I am not normally a fan of Rand Paul but I appreciate him speaking out so forcefully on this issue meanwhile the vast majority of Senators are playing the American public for suckers. “He [Clapper] said they were not collecting any data on American citizens,” Paul said, “and it turns out they’re collecting millions of data on phone calls every day. So it was a lie. What I’m saying is that by lying to Congress, which is against the law, he severely damaged the credibility of the entire intelligence community.” “I would say that Mr. Snowden hasn’t lied to anyone,” Paul continued. “He did break his oath of office, but part of his oath of office is to the Constitution, and he believes that, when James Clapper came in March, our national director of intelligence came and lied, that he [Snowden] was simply coming forward and telling the truth that your government was lying. This is a big concern of mine, because it makes me doubt the administration and their word to us when they talk to us, because they have now admitted they will lie to us if they think it is in the name of national security.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 17:21:36 +0000