Rand Paul leaves Homeland Security Chief speechless, challenged on 4th amend

Today, Rand Paul asked a question that the Homeland Security Secretary didn’t want to hear and ultimately wouldn’t answer.

What I particularly love about this clip is that Sen. Paul asked the same question that the then former Director of the NSA, James Clapper lied about (and should have been charged with a felony) last year. Notice this time the overlord knew to play dumb!

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From The Hill: The Kentucky senator questioned Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on the bulk collection of phone records, and argued that consumers’ desire for encryption is a response to government surveillance.

“The real culprit is government,” Paul said during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing.

“You’ve been so overzealous vacuuming up our records without a legitimate warrant … [Encryption] is a response to a government that didn’t have a real sense of decency toward privacy.”
Paul also criticized the government for surveillance during the civil rights era, which he described as a cautionary tale.

“Look at the time the government wasn’t so good. The FBI director recently pointed back and talked about the times that Martin Luther King was spied upon. That’s why we want these procedural protections,” he said.

Johnson, who has been making the rounds in tech circles arguing against full encryption, declined to weigh in on bulk data collection but urged Congress to act…

More: http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/240457-rand-paul-dhs-chief-tangle-on-encryption

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