Rand Paul sues Obama over NSA spying

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Rand Paul sues Obama over NSA spying
By Agence France-Presse
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 20:33 EST

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) filed suit Wednesday against President Barack Obama and other officials in a bid to end the secret program that scoops up telephone data on virtually all Americans.

The libertarian-leaning Paul, a potential 2016 presidential contender, said he and a prominent Tea Party group filed their “historic” civil action on behalf of “everyone in America that has a phone,” in what he described as potentially the largest class-action lawsuit of its kind.

“There is a huge and growing swell of protest in the country of people who are outraged that their records would be taken without suspicion, without a judge’s warrant and without individualization,” Paul, holding up a mobile phone in each hand, told reporters outside the US District Court in Washington.

The suit alleges that the National Security Agency is violating the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution by collecting so-called metadata on hundreds of millions of people.