{"id":346365,"date":"2018-02-01T19:12:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T18:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rand-paul-drops-truth-bomb-on-colbert\/"},"modified":"2018-02-01T19:12:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T18:12:32","slug":"rand-paul-drops-truth-bomb-on-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rand-paul-drops-truth-bomb-on-colbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul Drops Truth Bomb On Colbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cOur intelligence community has the authority to listen to every phone call\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>February 1, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senator Rand Paul educated Stephen Colbert about a huge problem with the FBI\u2019s Russia investigation Wednesday night, reminding the host that the intelligence agencies can monitor anyone\u2019s private communications, including those involved with the investigation itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Colbert asked Paul if he thinks the FISA memo, which is said to detail FBI manipulation of a federal surveillance court in order to spy on President Trump\u2019s campaign officials, should be released to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Paul detailed some uncomfortable truths as part of his answer:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s4LjWraA9SE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m concerned. My biggest concern is over something that Madison said at the beginning of our country, he said that \u2018men are not angels\u2019 and that\u2019s why we need more oversight of government,\u201d Paul told Colbert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur intelligence community has the authority to listen to every phone call. Everyone\u2019s phone calls could be listened to if they wanted to. Everyone in your e-mails can be tracked.\u201d the Senator warned.<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>Paul added that he is concerned about \u2018bias\u2019 within the Justice Department and the FBI, and that there needs to be \u201ca judge and a warrant\u201d\u00a0as an appropriate check and balance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think because men are not angels and women aren\u2019t either, that there can be bias that are into the intelligence community, so we have to be very, very careful that someone gives them a check and balance and that check and a balance should be a judge and a warrant against, you know, I fought with this collection of FISA data that we should go to a judge to get to that,\u201d Paul stated.<\/p>\n<p>The Senator expressed concern that the Russia investigation precipitated the\u00a0indictment\u00a0of\u00a0former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, even though it had nothing to do with alleged Russian&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/video-rand-paul-drops-truth-bomb-on-colbert.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur intelligence community has the authority to listen to every phone call\u201d Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comFebruary 1, 2017 Senator Rand Paul educated Stephen Colbert about a huge problem with the FBI\u2019s Russia investigation Wednesday night, reminding the host that the intelligence agencies can monitor anyone\u2019s private communications, including those involved with the investigation itself. Colbert asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}