<story><title>Rand Paul: &apos;I will force the expiration&apos; of portions of Patriot Act</title><url>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/exclusive-rand-paul-i-will-force-the-expiration-of-the-patriot-act-118443.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hackinthebochs</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m as liberal as they come but I will be voting for Rand Paul if he ends up with the Republican nomination. This is one issue where I will be a one issue voter.&lt;p&gt;Bernie Sanders seems like a great candidate, but I fear he is too reasonable and conciliatory to do what is necessary to properly reign in the entrenched interests of the military&amp;#x2F;intelligence industrial complex. At this point it seems like nothing short of a campaign of slash-and-burn against these agencies will get the job done, and it&amp;#x27;s going to take someone as &amp;quot;nutty&amp;quot; as a Paul to do it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Rand Paul: &apos;I will force the expiration&apos; of portions of Patriot Act</title><url>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/exclusive-rand-paul-i-will-force-the-expiration-of-the-patriot-act-118443.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jqm</author><text>Good for him. This &amp;quot;freedom act&amp;quot; bait and switch is nonsense IMOP. I don&amp;#x27;t care much about politics, nor about Paul, but on this issue I agree. They need to sit down and develop a comprehensive plan without the secrecy (except at operational levels), without the sensationalism and fear mongering and without the blatant and quickly revealed lies that have come out of NSA personal and Obama&amp;#x27;s mouths.&lt;p&gt;Most importantly, we need to be clear on the objectives. As it is there is a pervasive dirty feeling that the the ulterior motive is surveillance and control of US citizenry for purposes of retaining power. This might not be the case but with the amount of deceit that has recently occurred many people feel this way. So they need to start over in a transparent and trustworthy way.</text></comment>