Yesterday:
The Amash amendment to defund the NSA and stop the NSA from collecting of Americans phone records was barely defeated. In fact the amendment which was named after its sponsor (Representative Justin Amash) was barely defeated, only requiring a few more votes. One of those key votes was Michelle Bachmann, a representative and self proclaimed conservative who actually defended the NSA.
Bachmann compared the information being collected by the NSA to addresses on an envelope saying, “Is there a privacy right as to what’s been written on that envelope? No there isn’t. Where there is a privacy right is what’s contained inside that envelope,”. Yes Bachmann was a surprising defender of the NSA, there was also a surprising critic. According to the Daily Caller, “The Republican author of the Patriot Act angrily rejected the Justice Department’s argument that one of the law’s provisions authorizes the seizure of all Americans’ telephone records, “.
The Constitutional Knight 