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NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - MARCH 07: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord International Hotel and Conference Center March 7, 2014 in National Harbor, Maryland. The CPAC annual meeting brings together conservative politicians, pundits and their supporters for speeches, panels and classes. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - MARCH 07: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) takes the stage before addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord International Hotel and Conference Center March 7, 2014 in National Harbor, Maryland. The CPAC annual meeting brings together conservative politicians, pundits and their supporters for speeches, panels and classes. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 12: U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) (C), former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (L) and and Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, departs a press conference in front of U.S. District Court to announce the filing of a class action lawsuit against the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander and FBI Director James Comey. Paul said he filed the lawsuit to stop NSA surveillance of U.S. phone records because Obama has publicly refused to stop a clear and continuing violation of the 4th amendment. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 12: U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) (C) holds up a group of cell phones in front of U.S. District Court to announce the filing of a class action lawsuit against the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander and FBI Director James Comey. Paul said he filed the lawsuit to stop NSA surveillance of U.S. phone records because Obama has publicly refused to stop a clear and continuing violation of the 4th amendment. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 12: U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) arrives in front of U.S. District Court to announce the filing of a class action lawsuit against the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander and FBI Director James Comey. Paul said he filed the lawsuit to stop NSA surveillance of U.S. phone records because Obama has publicly refused to stop a clear and continuing violation of the 4th amendment. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2013 file photo, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. This is a year of auditioning, positioning, networking and just plain hard work for people who are considering running for president in 2016. You could see them stirring in 2013 as they plugged holes in resumes, took preliminary steps to build potential campaign organizations and made carefully calibrated moves to get better known by Americans generally and key constituencies in particular. Most _ but not all _ are ticking off items on what could be called the presidential prep checklist. And theyve got baggage to deal with. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., talks to media outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, after an event hosted by President Barack Obama about the Promise Zones Initiative. The Promise Zone Initiative is part of a plan to create a better bargain for the middle-class by partnering with local communities and businesses to create jobs, increase economic security, expand educational opportunities, increase access to quality, affordable housing and improve public safety. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 07: U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) (2nd L) talks to reporters while walking to the Senate chamber to vote on unemployment insurance at the US Capitol January 7, 2014 in Washington, DC. The U.S. Senate voted 60-37 to move forward with a bill to extend federal unemployment benefits for three months. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 17: U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) (3rd R) talks to reporters after a vote December 17, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The Senate has passed a cloture vote to clear the way for a final vote of the Ryan-Murray Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul speaks at the Detroit Economic Club held at the Motor City Casino, in Detroit, Dec. 6, 2013. Paul, spoke of economic freedom zones. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, Max Ortiz)

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Libertarian Champion Rand Paul Helped Kill NSA Reform Bill

SenatorRandal Howard "Rand" Paul (R-Kentucky) on Tuesday cast one of two critical "No" votes that on the surface seem to scuttle a bill banning U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) spying on Americans' phone calls. But the true story is far murkier. I. The Rise of the Intelligence Defense Complex The NSA currently collects metadata on 99 percent of calls placed in the U.S. -- information that includes who you called, the time, and the place the call was made from. That information adds up to a massive dataset that can be used to track virtually every American's movements on a coarse scale without a warrant. The NSA also reportedly records a large percentage of America's phone calls -- tens of millions a day, at least -- storing them at its massive data centers. The NSA has admitted to Congress that employees have abused this spying in the past to spy on exes or commit other "illegal" actions, just some of the thousands of times a year that NSA agents admittedly break federal laws.

Our bill protects Americans. It ends indiscriminate data collection, but keeps the tools our intelligence community needs to protect the nation.

God forbid tomorrow morning we wake up to the news that a member of ISIL is in the United States. We can disrupt that cell, before they can carry out a horrifying attack that kills hundreds of people.

Commented Sen.Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.):

This bill advances the cause of safeguarding our nation, without in any way detracting from our security. The founding fathers would have been shocked, if they had heard of warrants being issued by a secret court, making secret law.

If we didn't pass the House bill, there were members that wanted to end the whole program. I do not want to end the program. I'm prepared to make the compromise, which is that the metadata will be kept by the telecoms.

As Benjamin Franklin put it, those who trade their liberty for security may wind up with neither. Todays vote to oppose further consideration of the Patriot Act extension proves that we are one step closer to restoring civil liberties in America.

Sources: Senate [vote record], Ars Technica, The New York Times, Sen. Rand Paul [press release]

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Rand Paul Casts Crucial "No" Vote on Obama-Backed PATRIOT Act Renewal Bill

Rand Paul says he wants surveillance reform. Instead, he helped sink it.

And now hes under fire from the civil liberties groups who have been his strongest allies in his war on the NSAs domestic spying program.

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If Paul really wanted to help the cause of reining in the NSA, critics say he could have broken with his party and voted to let the bill move ahead a headline-grabbing moment that would make him stand out from the rest of the Republican presidential field.

Instead, the Kentucky senator the GOPs most famous libertarian voted to block the bill from even being debated.

(Also on POLITICO: Liberal 'hell no' caucus rises)

He could have voted against the bill on final passage. That would have been a completely different thing than shutting down the debate, said Laura Murphy of the American Civil Liberties Union, one of Pauls strongest allies on the issue. Both have filed lawsuits against the NSA surveillance programs.

This type of criticism may become a recurring theme as Pauls presidential campaign blossoms the purist libertarian beliefs that built the Paul brand are going to keep crashing into traditional Republican standards, especially on national security.

His no vote on NSA reform even raised suspicions that Paul just didnt want to have the debate.

Even if Senator Paul had problems with the text he still should have voted to advance the bill, offer an amendment to fix his problem, and then vote against the final bill if it wasnt adopted, said Mark Jaycox of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. By voting against the procedural motion, he said, Senator Paul made clear that he didnt even want to debate the bill.

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Rand doesn't stand

SenatorRandal Howard "Rand" Paul (R-Kentucky) on Tuesday cast one of two critical "No" votes that on the surface seem to scuttle a bill banning U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) spying on Americans' phone calls. But the true story is far murkier. I. The Rise of the Intelligence Defense Complex The NSA currently collects metadata on 99 percent of calls placed in the U.S. -- information that includes who you called, the time, and the place the call was made from. That information adds up to a massive dataset that can be used to track virtually every American's movements on a coarse scale without a warrant. The NSA also reportedly records a large percentage of America's phone calls -- tens of millions a day, at least -- storing them at its massive data centers. The NSA has admitted to Congress that employees have abused this spying in the past to spy on exes or commit other "illegal" actions, just some of the thousands of times a year that NSA agents admittedly break federal laws.

Our bill protects Americans. It ends indiscriminate data collection, but keeps the tools our intelligence community needs to protect the nation.

God forbid tomorrow morning we wake up to the news that a member of ISIL is in the United States. We can disrupt that cell, before they can carry out a horrifying attack that kills hundreds of people.

Commented Sen.Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.):

This bill advances the cause of safeguarding our nation, without in any way detracting from our security. The founding fathers would have been shocked, if they had heard of warrants being issued by a secret court, making secret law.

If we didn't pass the House bill, there were members that wanted to end the whole program. I do not want to end the program. I'm prepared to make the compromise, which is that the metadata will be kept by the telecoms.

As Benjamin Franklin put it, those who trade their liberty for security may wind up with neither. Todays vote to oppose further consideration of the Patriot Act extension proves that we are one step closer to restoring civil liberties in America.

Sources: Senate [vote record], Ars Technica, The New York Times, Sen. Rand Paul [press release]

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