Rand Paul Takes Victory Lap After Patriot Act Filibuster

As we watch the DoD & Military Industrial Complex fearmongers sell their conspiracy theories of doom, we flashback to former NSA Director, Michael Hayden, monologging like a super villain about how he didn’t the Patriot Act or Section 215 to spy on Americans, Rand Paul fired a very important shot across the bow of the surveillance state, removing at least temporarily the legal cover for much of the domestic spying. Paul can’t stop them from violating the law,however. They were violating the law before the Church Committee & Pike Committee hearings of the 1970s. That’s why FISA was created — as a check on unaccountable power. But they turned it into a rubber stamp.

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