An irate Congressman Peter King
(R-N.Y.) during an interview Sunday morning said Sen. Rand Paul
(R-Ky.) “doesn’t deserve to be in the United States Senate.”
The New York congressman’s comments
were in reference to the Sen. Paul’s
recent threat to sue the Obama White House over the National
Security Agency’s wide-ranging surveillance policies.
The NSA, according to King, is
“doing exactly what it’s supposed to be doing.”
“Rand Paul does not know what he’s
talking about. And, Rand Paul is really spreading fear among the
American people,” King said. “To me, he’s either totally uninformed
or he’s part of that hate America crowd that I thought left us in
the 1960s.”
“In any event, he doesn’t deserve
to be in the United States Senate for spreading that type of
misperception and absolute lies to be honest with you,” he added.
For his part, Sen. Paul during an
earlier Sunday show defended his lawsuit against the NSA, explaining
that Americans have a right to question warrantless data collection.
“I think the idea of a class-action
lawsuit with hundreds of thousands of participants really beats home
and brings to the forefront the idea that this is a generalized
warrant and it should be considered unconstitutional,” Paul said.