VIDEO: Harry Reid attacks Rand Paul, defends Patriot Act (5/25/11)

[Warlord]

Slow news week so thought i'd post this Flashback from Reason:

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Flashback: Watch Harry Reid Accuse Rand Paul of "protect[ing]...terrorists, to cover up their gun purchases"
Matt Welch|Jun. 10, 2013 4:07 pm

Was it only two years ago that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada), very much a Democrat, went rhetorically ballistic against Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), very much a civil libertarian, over the once-reviled-by-Democrats PATRIOT Act? Watch, and see if you can stifle the gag reflex


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYJLZLitq_o

Rand Paul then responded to the "scurrilous" charge:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzjYUmi5_IQ

http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/10/flashback-watch-harry-reid-accuse-rand-p

 

[FriedChicken]

hahahahaha ... that is good stuff. This could almost be reversed in 2008 between a democrat and a republican I would think. I think the Dem party has truly shamed themselves on this issue by backing the patriot act after being the leading voice against it in the past.