Rand Paul Says He Will Question Trump’s CIA Pick Over Surveillance Powers
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Rand Paul Says He Will Question Trump’s CIA Pick Over Surveillance Powers
The Kentucky Senator says Rep. Mike Pompeo’s support of the Patriot Act and the NSA’s mass collection programs is cause for concern.
Hamza Shaban
Nov. 20, 2016
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, the first sitting Republican to oppose any of Donald Trump’s potential cabinet picks, is now questioning the president-elect’s choice for director of the CIA.
“I’m a fierce advocate of privacy,” Sen. Paul said on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday. “I’ll continue to be an equal opportunity defender of the Bill of Rights, whether it’s a Republican or a Democrat president.”
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Referring to Rep. Pompeo’s support of the Patriot Act and the NSA’s mass collection programs, Sen. Paul said, “It does concern me.”
“[Pompeo’s] been for expanding NSA powers. Many of the NSA powers were done, I think, in secret, without the knowledge of most members of Congress. Even some members who are authors or co-authors of the Patriot Act said, ‘We never intended for them to collect all that data in Utah, and they didn’t tell us,”’ Paul said, referring to the NSA’s massive data storage facility code-named “Bumblehive.”
“So one of my questions for Pompeo will be: Are their secret programs that even Congress doesn’t know about?”
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