Mike Lee Chris Christie, The boss Republican backer of the Senate bill to change the Patriot Act hammered kindred Republican Gov. Chris Christie for saying "You can't make the most of your common freedoms in case you're in a box."
Utah Sen. Mike Lee on CNN called those remarks "commensurate to political explicit entertainment" and said Christie "ought to be embarrassed about himself."
"That is totally strange. It's preposterous," Lee said of Christie's remarks. "What's more, if Mr. Christie needs to have impact in the national examination with respect to protection and security he ought to pick his words all the more painstakingly."
Christie is firmly restricted to changing the National Security Agency's mass information accumulation project, demanding it is crucial to keeping the following significant terrorist assault.
The NSA gathers phone metadata on a huge number of Americans consistently and stores that data for a long time under that program and the House overwhelmingly endorsed a change bill, known as the USA Freedom Act, a week ago.
Be that as it may, Lee and his kindred advocates of that bill in the Senate are as yet pursuing the battle for change in the Senate, where top Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, are contending the same focuses as Christie.
"I would ask Mr. Christie what number of lives has it spared? I would ask Mr. Christie what number of demonstrations of terrorism have been ruined essentially in light of the fact that the NSA is gathering phone information on what your grandma calls, - on calls that she makes or calls that she gets?" Lee said.
Surveys of the NSA program by a presidential warning gathering of top knowledge, protection and sacred specialists discovered no occurrence in which the observation project was "fundamental" to ruining a terrorist assault.
"At least any security advantage that could be accomplished through this project could likewise be accomplished through the sort of system that the USA flexibility act would put set up," Lee said
Utah Sen. Mike Lee on CNN called those remarks "commensurate to political explicit entertainment" and said Christie "ought to be embarrassed about himself."
"That is totally strange. It's preposterous," Lee said of Christie's remarks. "What's more, if Mr. Christie needs to have impact in the national examination with respect to protection and security he ought to pick his words all the more painstakingly."
Christie is firmly restricted to changing the National Security Agency's mass information accumulation project, demanding it is crucial to keeping the following significant terrorist assault.
The NSA gathers phone metadata on a huge number of Americans consistently and stores that data for a long time under that program and the House overwhelmingly endorsed a change bill, known as the USA Freedom Act, a week ago.
Be that as it may, Lee and his kindred advocates of that bill in the Senate are as yet pursuing the battle for change in the Senate, where top Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, are contending the same focuses as Christie.
"I would ask Mr. Christie what number of lives has it spared? I would ask Mr. Christie what number of demonstrations of terrorism have been ruined essentially in light of the fact that the NSA is gathering phone information on what your grandma calls, - on calls that she makes or calls that she gets?" Lee said.
Surveys of the NSA program by a presidential warning gathering of top knowledge, protection and sacred specialists discovered no occurrence in which the observation project was "fundamental" to ruining a terrorist assault.
"At least any security advantage that could be accomplished through this project could likewise be accomplished through the sort of system that the USA flexibility act would put set up," Lee said
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