Rand Paul and FreedomWorks File Class Action Lawsuit Against NSA, Obama and Others

[Politico] Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced on Wednesday a lawsuit against President Barack Obama, the National Security Agency, and others involved in the spy agency’s mass collection of Americans’ personal data, according to a statement.

“I am filing a lawsuit against President Barack Obama because he has publicly refused to stop a clear and continuing violation of the 4th Amendment. The Bill of Rights protects all citizens from general warrants. I expect this case to go all the way to the Supreme Court and I predict the American people will win,” Paul said in a statement.

Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli will serve as his lead counsel and Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, joins him in filing the suit.

The plaintiffs seek relief from the “defendants’ mass, suspicionless, non-particularized collection, storage, retention, and search of telephone metadata related to every domestic or international phone call made or received by Plaintiffs and class members,” according to a statement provided to POLITICO. They ask that the defendants be ordered to “purge” all personal communications metadata from the Mass Associational Tracking Program databases.

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