Rand Paul Blasts Dick Cheney

Senator Rand Paul appeared on CNN’s Situation Room today. The host asked Senator Paul to respond to video of Dick Cheney who told Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace that the senator was “wrong” when he criticized the NSA’s surveillance programs. (UPDATE: You’ll also want to see Senator Paul go even more in-depth in a clip from Greta on Fox at the end of this post.)

“What I would ask is who did they fire after 9/11?” Paul asked. “Not one person was fired.”

“Do you remember the ’20th hijacker’?” he continued. “[Zacarias] Moussaoui, captured a month in advance? The FBI agent wrote 70 letters asking, ‘let’s look at this guy’s computer.’ In the FBI, they turned him down.”

“It wasn’t that they couldn’t get a warrant, nobody asked for a warrant,” Paul added. “To me, that was really, really bad intelligence – really bad police work – and, really, someone should have been removed from office for that.”

CNN then cut to an extended clip of Montell Jordan’s “This is How We Do It.”

UPDATE: FULL CLIP…

2nd Update: Rand Paul On The Record with Greta VanSusteren:

UPDATE:
(CNN) – President Barack Obama’s director of national intelligence was flat-out lying when he told lawmakers in March the government wasn’t collecting data on millions of Americans, Sen. Rand Paul asserted Tuesday.

The Kentucky Republican suggested intelligence chief James Clapper had lost all credibility in the wake of intelligence leaks showing information on phone calls and internet usage being collected by the National Security Agency…

“He said they were not collecting any data on American citizens, and it turns out they’re collecting millions of data on phone calls every day,” Paul continued. “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.” More including video.