This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, April 28, 2015.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio have come out strongly in favor of NSA

surveillance suggesting that it's either one of the best parts of the

Obama administration or something that should be extended permanently.

But that cheering in favor of blanket surveillance of Americans flies in the face of the evidence.

Cato Senior Fellow Julian Sanchez comments.

We're expecting reintroduction any day now of a comprehensive intelligence surveillance reform legislation by

Mitch McConnell has attempted to beat reformers to the punch by

introducing a bill that would just cleanly reauthorize with no modifications at all.

Three provisions of the Patriot Act that are set to expire on June 1st.

And of course, the most controversial of these is Section 215,

the basis of the bulk telephony collection program

disclosed by Edward Snowden.

One of the small ironies of this is that among the objections to the USA Freedom Act, which fell just short in the Senate last session.

McConnell and others complained that they were trying to rush it through, that they were

bypassing the ordinary committee process

and yet of course McConnell is now attempting to do precisely the same thing

with legislation to reauthorize without reform.

There's a really kind of astonishing inability by some folks, including now a couple of presidential candidates, to process

what's happened over the last two years, to process among other things the overwhelming evidence that the program at issue here has in addition to being a massive invasion of the privacy of innocent people simply not been useful has not provided any unique

intelligence value it's it's like the anti-vaccine movement where study after

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