Rand Paul: Phone records of Americans 'none of government's business'
US Republican Senator Rand Paul has strongly attacked the National Security Agency for spying on the lives of millions of law-abiding Americans.
"The phone records of law-abiding citizens are none of the government's damn business!" he said.
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, the senator said the country’s intelligence agencies are misleading Congress.
“When the intelligence director lies to Congress, how are we to trust them?" he said.
The Kentucky senator has been one of the most outspoken critics of the NSA spying activities.
Paul even called for Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to resign for giving misleading testimony to Congress about the spying program.
Documents disclosed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have blown the lid on a number of US spying programs, including one for collecting Americans’ phone records and another, codenamed PRISM, for tracking the use of US-based Internet servers by all people around the world.
Civil liberties group argue that the Patriot Act never authorized bulk data mining of millions of Americans not suspected of any wrongdoing.
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