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PHILADELPHIA Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) vowed Monday to do "everything possible" end the renewal of the Patriot Act -- even as he conceded that the filibuster he was planning was unlikely to be enough to end the program.

We do not have the votes to ultimately defeat the Patriot Act. I can delay it; I can force them to debate it so the public at large can know what theyre doing, Paul said, while asserting that he has public opinion on his side.

Theyve got the votes inside the Beltway, but we have the votes outside the Beltway, Paul said.

Pauls trip here was designed to be teeming with symbolism as he prepares for what he calls a fight for the Fourth Amendment. Paul held a question and answer session with a Philadelphia radio host at the Constitution Center, where the Bill of Rights is displayed, followed by a press conference in the shadow of Independence Hall with sign-waving campaign supporters.

Our founding fathers would be appalled to know that we are writing one single warrant and collecting everyones phone records all of the time, Paul said, reiterating a call for President Obama to end the bulk collection of phone records in the wake of a judges ruling that it violated the Patriot Act.

[Rand Paul: NSA court ruling should spur Obama to stop bulk collection of phone records]

Paul said that he would vote no on the USA Freedom Act, a compromise bill that would stop the government from collecting data but allow phone companies to keep it, because he is afraid it could actually expand government power. Speaking to reporters after his events, Paul repeated an assertion he first made in January: that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Edward Snowden should share a prison cell.

"It would probably be just and informative to put Clapper and Snowden in the same cell," he said.

Paul has been shifting to the right on foreign policy as he tries to win the Republican nomination, and he did so again Monday, asserting that the 2007 troop surge in Iraq worked.

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