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Just a couple of days ago I posted on Rand Pauls declared intention to oppose either Rudy Giuliani or John Bolton if they were to be nominated to be secretary of state. As I pointed out at the time, Pauls reasoning is little short of bizarre, even when judged by the rather high bar Paul has set for declaring any of his actions abnormal. Now he has a new target, CIA Director-designate Mike Pompeo:

Transcript via The Hill:

The libertarian senator said on CBSs Face the Nation that it concerns him that Pompeo supported the Patriot Act.

But I would say that with Pompeo, hes going to have to also answer to my liking whether or not hes still for torture, whether or not hes for waterboarding, Paul said.

Thats important.

Paul noted that Pompeo has also supported expanding the powers of the National Security Agency (NSA).

Many of the NSA powers were done, I think, in secret without the knowledge of most members of Congress, he said.

Even some members who are authors or co-authors of the Patriot Act said, We never intended for them to collect all that data in Utah. And they didnt tell us.

One of the questions he said he would ask Pompeo would be whether there are secret programs that even Congress doesnt know about, Paul said.

As I said in the other post, Paul can oppose nominees for whatever reason he chooses. What he cant do is pretend that his behavior is anything other than petulant. The Patriot Act is the law of the land. If Paul doesnt like it, he should change it. Pompeo cant do anything about it at the CIA which doesnt have a charter to operate domestically or even against US citizens. The NSA, not the CIA, is involved in data collection. Whatever your view on that activity sane people should be able to agree that grilling a guy who will have nothing to do with another agencys program is wrong. Finally, waterboarding is not now, nor has it ever been torture. The use of waterboarding had been seemingly put off limits by Congress and whether Pompeo supports using it or not it is not a subject hell have to deal with.

This is Rand Paul falling back on the batsh** crazy antics that made his old man famous in a vain attempt to make himself relevant after sucking up to Mitch McConnell for the past four years. It isnt going to work.

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Rand Paul Continues To Do Rand-Paul-Like Stuff | RedState