Earlier this week, the USA FREEDOM Act needed the
votes of 60 senators in order for debate on the bill to proceed.
The bill would have reined in aspects of massive domestic spying on
innocent Americans by the National Security Agency. The bill
garnered only 58, and so it did not make it to the floor. One of
the 42 voting against was Sen. Paul. Why? Paul said that he opposed
the legislation on the grounds that it extended three
unconstitutional provisions of the PATRIOT Act. Civil libertarians
were disappointed by Paul’s vote. Reason Science
Correspondent Ronald Bailey worries that the senator has allowed
his advocacy for the perfect to get in the way of the merely
better.
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