Rising conservative/libertarian star and noted social media whiz Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) wants to take on President Barack Obama over the surveillance state.
Amash, one of only a handful of Republican congressman who voted against the re-authorization of the Patriot Act, “is now working on bipartisan legislation to combat this overreach” and “would love to debate the president – Lincoln-Douglass style – about the role of the NSA,” reports Zenon Evans at Reason.
Evans is a College Fix summer intern at Reason, and he reported Tuesday on a conversation he had with Amash’s spokesperson, who said that:
To those who seem unconcerned, we would say that the evidence we have is that the NSA is collecting information on all Americans. That’s the whole point- it is indiscriminate. There may be a proper role for surveillance activity on those who are suspected of violating the law or certainly where there is probable cause that people are violating the law, but the whole point of the scandal regarding the NSA’s collection of telephone records and, perhaps, internet records, is that they are doing so indiscriminately, without any specific or particularized belief that the people they are surveilling have done anything wrong. When the government begins to collect massive amounts of information about innocent Americans and stores that data for who-knows how long, that creates a potential for government to use that information for all sorts of mischief.
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