Sen. Rand Paul said Tuesday that he’s spoken with President Trump on requiring a warrant to look at American’s personal information.
“I think that nobody — nobody in law enforcement — should be looking at American’s information without first getting a warrant. That’s what I fought for, and we’re very close to winning that battle, and getting the bill and getting reform for FISA, but we didn’t quite get there,” Mr. Paul, Kentucky Republican, said on Fox News.
He said the memo written by Rep. Devin Nunes came out the day after their talks ended. The Nunes memo said that the FBI used selective information from an unverified dossier to obtain a FISA warrant on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The dossier was funded by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
House Democrats published their own memo disputing that the dossier was the sole justification for the warrant.
Mr. Paul has made mass data collection on Americans a main platform while in the Senate. He’s argued that there need to be more precautions and securities in place in order to protect Americans from having their personal information collected by the government.
• Sally Persons can be reached at spersons@washingtontimes.com.
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