Megyn Kelly interviewed Rand Paul on Tuesday night, and as usual, she pulled no punches.
Paul recently blocked Mitch McConnell’s attempt to extend the Patriot Act, citing privacy concerns over NSA spying. Kelly contended that the NSA’s metadata gathering program is ultimately not invasive of privacy, since it collects records on only 20 percent of U.S. calls “at most,” and agents can’t access the content of calls.
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“By connecting the dots of your phone records, they can determine your religion 85 percent of the time, who your physician is,” Paul replied.
“How?” Kelly demanded. “That’s not how this program works…they just have phone numbers.”
“Our Founding Fathers didn’t like general warrants,” Paul maintained. “That’s what the Fourth Amendment’s about.”
Paul called “the real debate…whether you do have a Fourth Amendment protection in records that are held by other companies.”
“That doesn’t elevate it to a constitutional problem,” Kelly insisted.
Watch below, via Fox News:
