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Rand Paul: What You Discuss on Your Phone Is None of the Government’s Business
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has an op-ed in Time magazine about how the recent court ruling on the NSA's illegal metadata collection. The full thing is worth a read here. The three judge panel slams the overreach of the NSA’s limitless metadata [...]
Watch: Ron Paul Discusses the Patriot Act with Norm Singleton
Norm Singleton discusses the latest on the Patriot Act extension with C4L Chairman Ron Paul;
Campaign for Liberty Supports Poe-Lofgren Amendment to USA Freedom Act
Yesterday, Campaign for Liberty signed a coalition letter to Congressional Leadership in support of the Poe-Lofgren Amendment to the USA Freedom Act. The amendment would prohibit the government from collecting the communications of US persons [...]
McConnell Moves Forward with Patriot Act Reauthorization
Last night Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell read a clean version (without any sort of reforms) of the Patriot Act Extension. This means that McConnell can move to proceed to the bill without hearings or any committee process whenever he [...]
Can Congress Effectively Oversee the Vast Surveillance State?
According to a new report from the Associated Press, the Senate Intelligence Committee is creating a sort of "secret encyclopedia" of America's surveillance programs. Surprisingly, this hasn't picked up as much media attention as it [...]
Ron Paul: USA FREEDOM Act: Just Another Word for Lost Liberty
Apologists for the National Security Agency (NSA) point to the arrest of David Coleman Headley as an example of how warrantless mass surveillance is necessary to catch terrorists. Headley played a major role in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack [...]
Campaign for Liberty Supports Labrador Amendment to USA Freedom Act
Yesterday, Campaign for Liberty signed a coalition letter in support of Rep. Labrador's Amendment to the USA Freedom Act. While Campaign for Liberty opposes the USA Freedom Act in its current form, C4L supports Labrador's Amendment as well as [...]
C4L Chair Ron Paul Opposes USA Freedom Act, Endorses Surveillance State Repeal Act
SPRINGFIELD, Virginia - Today, Campaign for Liberty came out strongly against the inaptly named “USA Freedom Act” and endorsed the Surveillance State Repeal Act. The USA Freedom Act, sponsored by Rep. Sensenbrenner, would extend and amend [...]
DEA tracking your calls since 1992
In my recent remarks on the PATRIOT Act I remarked that a lot of the PATRIOT Act consisted of proposals the Justice Department had been seeking for years but was unable to get through Congress until the panicked atmosphere following the 9-11 [...]
The Feds have been listening to your calls for decades
While most people now know, thanks to Edward Snowden, that the National Security Agency has been monitoring your telephone calls in the name of "security" after 9-11, a recent investigation by USA Today revealed that the U.S. Government has been [...]