Peter King defends the NSA spying program and slams Rand Paul for questioning it

This weekend Republican Peter King took to Fox News and defended the NSA data-mining program while slamming Rand Paul for questioning the program:

“I totally disagree with what Sen. Rand Paul said,” King said. “That was just a grab bag of misinformation and distortion coming from him. The fact is John [Roberts], look at this

  So John Roberts looked at this program, that means it is okay? This is the same John Roberts who changed his Obamacare vote at the last minute and ruled that law constitutional when I think most Americans understand it is not constitutional. This is the same John Roberts who may have been compromised by the very same NSA program he defended. The NSA program targeted one justice who now sits on the Supreme Court and I am of the belief that justice was John Roberts. So can he really be trusted at this point?

  But the representative from New York continued:

take Rand Paul’s own numbers. He says there’s billions of phone calls being collected. It’s not even true, but let’s assume he’s being right for once — billions of phone calls being collected. You juxtapose that with 2,800 violations, which were self-reported by the NSA, which are not violating anybody’s rights. You’re talking about 1,900 being foreigners, and when they came to the U.S., their foreign mobile phone wasn’t immediately transferred over the way they were supposed to be. No Americans rights were violated with that. The others were records which were kept more than five years by accident, self-reported by the NSA.

  Millions of phone calls have been data-mined every day over the course of years, can Rand Paul’s numbers really be that far off? As a defense of the NSA program Peter King uses the NSA’s own internal poll to state that there really weren’t that many violations when you look at how many people are being spied on. Naturally the NSA is going to downplay the violations when asked to investigate itself, this is not a legitimate investigation. 

To me, a scandal is when a government agency is somehow using information to hurt people or go after them,” King continued. “Whatever mistakes were made were inadvertent. And if you have a 99.99 percent batting average, that’s better than most media people do, most politicians do. And I have a tremendous respect for Gen. [Keith] Alexander and the NSA. And this whole tone of snooping and spying that we use — I think it’s horrible. It’s a distortion, a smear and a slander of good patriotic Americans

  No Mister King, what is a smear and a slander of good patriotic Americans is violating their fourth amendment rights by treating them as if they were common criminals and subjecting them to programs which were supposed to be designed to go after terrorists. 

  So why is Peter King defending the NSA while going after a person who is trying to expose this scandal? The answer is obvious: Peter King is on the Intelligence Committee, therefor he knew about the program all along and he did not, and still does not, have a problem with it.

  In the end Peter King is part of the ruling class elite and he must be defeated in 2014. I may agree with Peter King on some issues but anyone who supports this program at the sacrifice of our constitutional rights is part of the problem and is unworthy to hold public office.