Marco Rubio loves the NSA and domestic surveillance almost as much as Hillary Clinton does
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Thursday, May 21, 2015
As the 2016 presidential race begins to heat up, candidates from both major parties are already jockeying for position on key political issues. One of the most talked about one concerns all Americans: privacy and how successive presidential administrations have interpreted their own power and statutory law to permit widespread electronic surveillance by the National Security Agency.
In recent days, the issue has come up again as Congress considers whether to reform a controversial provision of the USA Patriot Act or simply allow it to expire.
Various candidates have mostly expressed support for the NSA and the authority given to the agency by the Bush and Obama administrations to conduct overly broad electronic surveillance and the collection of Americans’ phone metadata.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, has been viewed favorably by a number of Republicans, but on the issue of widespread NSA spying, he is wrong. In a recent op-ed for USA Today, he claimed that there has been “not a single documented case of abuse” resulting from the program while arguing for it to continue.
“The government is not listening to your phone calls or recording them unless you are a terrorist or talking to a terrorist outside the United States,” he writes.
“In fact, this program has been found legal and constitutional by at least 15 federal judges serving on the FISA Court on 35 occasions,” he continued.
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