Senator Rand Paul Sues Obama Over NSA Intel Program
Rand Paul and FreedomWorks have filed a lawsuit in order to put a stop to metadata collection.
Via AFP:
US Senator Rand Paul filed suit Wednesday against President Barack Obama and other officials in a bid to end the secret program that scoops up telephone data on virtually all Americans.
The libertarian-leaning Paul, a potential 2016 presidential contender, said he and a prominent Tea Party group filed their "historic" civil action on behalf of "everyone in America that has a phone," in what he described as potentially the largest class-action lawsuit of its kind.
"There is a huge and growing swell of protest in the country of people who are outraged that their records would be taken wi...