On the recordJune 9, 2015
I am on the House floor today to express my thanks to Senator Rand Paul for his 11-hour filibuster of the PATRIOT Act reauthorization on May 31. I voted against the USA FREEDOM Act, which would have reauthorized the PATRIOT Act, because the NSA spying program allows for the Federal Government to gather bulk private data on law-abiding American citizens, a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment. I also commend Senator Paul for his courageous statement a couple of weeks ago. He said: ``ISIS exists and grew stronger because the hawks in our party gave arms indiscriminately, and most of those arms were snatched by ISIS. They''--the hawks in our party--``created these people.'' Unfortunately, Louisiana's Governor, Bobby Jindal, criticized my friend Senator Paul by saying he is ``unsuited to be Commander in Chief.'' It is obvious Governor Jindal does not know about the manipulation of intelligence that led us into the Iraq war. In a 2006 article for Time magazine, Lieutenant General Greg Newbold, whom I met with shortly after he wrote the article, stated: ``From 2000 until 2002, I was a Marine Corps Lieutenant General and Director of Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. After 9/11, I was a witness and, therefore, a party to the actions that led us to the invasion of Iraq, an unnecessary war.…
