Sen. Rand Paul Files Lawsuit Against Obama for NSA Surveillance

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has officially filed a class action lawsuit against President Obama and other administration officials over National Security Agency surveillance, CBS reports. Suggested Reading The Ever-Growing List of Lawsuits Against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Take a Look Inside Michael Jordan’s Former Chicago-Area Mansion, Which You Can Now Airbnb For This Heart-Clutching Price Celebrities…

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has officially filed a class action lawsuit against President Obama and other administration officials over National Security Agency surveillance, CBS reports.

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In conjunction with Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, a conservative nonprofit organization, Paul is accusing the administration of violating the Fourth Amendment through the collection of Americansโ€™ phone metadata. (The amendment prohibits "unreasonable searches and seizures.") Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who lost last yearโ€™s gubernatorial election, will act as lead counsel. Naming Obama, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, NSA Director Keith Alexander and FBI Director James Comey as defendants, the suit seeks for a way to stop the program and dispose of all data previously collected through it.

"There's a huge and growing swell of protest in this country of people who are outraged that their records would be taken without suspicion, without a judge's warrant and without individualization," Paul said at a press conference after filing the lawsuit in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. He thinks it will be a "historic lawsuit" that makes its way to the Supreme Court.

The libertarian senator has been on a mission since last year to collect signatures from people for the class action suit through his PAC website.

Read more at CBS.

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