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ProSense

(116,464 posts)
Wed Feb 12, 2014, 01:30 PM Feb 2014

Awkward: Rand Paul Teams Up With Anti-McConnell Group On NSA Lawsuit

Awkward: Rand Paul Teams Up With Anti-McConnell Group On NSA Lawsuit

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is joining forces on an anti-NSA effort with a tea party group pushing to oust Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

Paul and FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe appeared together at a news conference Wednesday to announce a class action lawsuit against the National Security Agency, according to a press advisory. FreedomWorks has endorsed McConnell's conservative challenger, Matt Bevin, in the Republican primary this year, slamming the Senate GOP leader as a "do-nothing incumbent."


McConnell has declared war on outside right-wing groups seeking to upend the Republican establishment. There is deep animosity between the two camps. Kibbe said this week that Republican leaders were steering donors away from his organization. Paul is supporting McConnell for re-election, although he hasn't exactly been enthusiastic about it.

Paul and FreedomWorks tapped Ken Cuccinnelli, the former attorney general of Virginia, to be their lead counsel.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rand-paul-freedomworks-mcconnell-nsa

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Awkward: Rand Paul Teams Up With Anti-McConnell Group On NSA Lawsuit (Original Post) ProSense Feb 2014 OP
Here's something these fools should review. The timeline of NSA's Domestic sinkingfeeling Feb 2014 #1
I keep waiting for the Orly Taitz companion lawsuit. nt msanthrope Feb 2014 #2
Kick! n/t ProSense Feb 2014 #3
Awkward: Teabagger hero files class-action lawsuit KamaAina Feb 2014 #4

sinkingfeeling

(51,460 posts)
1. Here's something these fools should review. The timeline of NSA's Domestic
Wed Feb 12, 2014, 01:32 PM
Feb 2014

Spying. Signed by none other than George W. Bush on Oct. 4, 2001.

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
4. Awkward: Teabagger hero files class-action lawsuit
Wed Feb 12, 2014, 02:20 PM
Feb 2014

repukes usually hate class-action suits because many of them are filed against their favorite people, corporations.

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