Two of congressional Republicans' most outspoken members on the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs on Sunday highlighted the sharp divide within the party on the issue.
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“I'm all for surveillance of spies,” Paul told Fox News. “I'm just not for this gross bulk gathering of data on all Americans. … Our Founding Fathers, when they wrote the Fourth Amendment, they said a single warrant goes towards a specific individual and what you want to look for.”
Paul’s comments drew sharp criticism from New York Republican Rep. Peter King, who followed him on the show.
“I fully disagree with what Senator Rand Paul said,” said King, a strong supporter of the NSA programs and member of the House Homeland Security Committee. “That was just a grab bag of misinformation and distortion coming from him.”
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