Rand Paul: Your phone records are none of the government's 'damn business'

Sen Rand Paul (R-KY) criticized the intelligence community's mass surveillance of Americans at the Conservative Political Action Conference. The libertarian-leaning senator said that he understood that intelligence agencies needed to be able to conduct surveillance on some to do their jobs, but accused the agencies of overreach and misleading Congress. "But when the intelligence director lies to Congress, how are we to trust them?" he said. "I say that your phone records are yours," he said. "I say that the phone records of law-abiding citizens are none of their damn business."