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the wake of reports that the NSA has collected millions of phone records from
Verizon customers, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced today that he will
introduce the Fourth Amendment Restoration Act of 2013 tomorrow, Friday, June
7. Here's the release from Paul's office:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Rand Paul today announced he will
introduce the Fourth Amendment Restoration Act of 2013, which ensures the
Constitutional protections of the Fourth Amendment are not violated by any
government entity.
“The
revelation that the NSA has secretly seized the call records of millions of
Americans, without probable cause, represents an outrageous abuse of power and
a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. I have long
argued that Congress must do more to restrict the Executive’s expansive law
enforcement powers to seize private records of law-abiding Americans that are
held by a third-party,” Sen. Paul said. “When the Senate rushed through a
last-minute extension of the FISA Amendments Act late last year, I insisted on
a vote on my amendment (SA 3436) to require stronger protections on business records
and prohibiting the kind of data-mining this case has revealed. Just last
month, I introduced S.1037, the Fourth Amendment Preservation and Protection Act, which
would provide exactly the kind of protections that, if enacted, could have
prevented these abuses and stopped these increasingly frequent violations of
every American’s constitutional rights.
“The bill restores our Constitutional rights
and declares that the Fourth Amendment shall not be construed to allow any
agency of the United States government to search the phone records of Americans
without a warrant based on probable cause.”
Click HERE to view the text of this legislation, which will be
introduced when the Senate returns to session on Friday, June 7.
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