Lindsey Graham: Hey, I’m “glad” the NSA is collecting Americans’ phone records « Hot Air.
How do we know this? This is what he said…
“I’m a Verizon customer. I don’t mind Verizon turning over records to the government if the government is going to make sure that they try to match up a known terrorist phone with somebody in the United States. I don’t think you’re talking to the terrorists. I know you’re not. I know I’m not. So we don’t have anything to worry about.”
I’m a Verizon customer and I do mind.
Allahpundit at Hot Air asks the right question:
That’s the eternal rationale for the surveillance state: If you’re not doing anything wrong, you should have no objection. What happens when the definition of “wrong” changes after your information’s been collected? Why would any Republican make this argument right now, when Congress is busy investigating the government’s tax-collection agency for deciding something was “wrong” with the idea of tea partiers applying for nonprofit status?
Lindsay’s belief in Big Government/Big Brother remains unshaken as scandals due to government incompetence (AT A MINIMUM) surround us. Calling Lindsay Graham “tone deaf” is being a couple of orders of magnitude too kind.
I have one word of advice for Lindsay: RETREAT
