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TheBlackAdder

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Mon Dec 9, 2019, 10:02 PM Dec 2019

Rand Paul: Ban Congress from seeking members', journalists' phone data

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Rand Paul is working on changes to congressional rules that would prohibit committee chairmen and congressional subpoenas from sweeping up phone call data of journalists and members of Congress.

The move was prompted by House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), whose committee obtained phone records from both Intelligence ranking member Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and conservative journalist John Solomon in the course of its investigation of other people.

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The Kentucky senator told reporters on Monday evening that he is working on revisions to committee rules because “nobody should get your phone records. This is a big deal, this is a huge deal.” He also gently scolded journalists for not rebelling against Schiff, arguing it would be easy enough to subpoena suspected journalists’ sources to sweep up their call info.

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“There hasn’t been enough calls from some of you people about protecting your own,” Paul told a handful of reporters. “Congress has no rules … it’s not illegal for Adam Schiff to do this. It’s highly immoral or unfair for him to do it. No one else has ever done it to another member or a journalist. I think we need to change the rules.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/09/rand-paul-ban-congress-phone-data-079549




Schiff has denied GOP accusations that the Intelligence Committee subpoenaed phone records for Nunes or Solomon, asserting that they were simply discovered during a narrower investigation into the phone records of Parnas specifically.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/rand-paul-moves-to-ban-collection-of-congressional-phone-records-after-nunes-was-caught-calling-giuliani-associates/



I guess Comrade Paul has something to hide.

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