Washington Post calls Rand Paul paranoid over NSA

The Washington Post dismisses the NSA's accrual U.S. citizens' phone records and online activity as a non-scandal in Tuesday's editorial. And the paper gets a dig in at Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.):

If there is a scandal here, it is that a government contractor of Mr. Snowden’s stature had access to highly classified material.

Just as it is important not to exaggerate the national security risks of transparency, it is also important not to give into the anti-government paranoia of grandstanding politicians such as Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who on Sunday invoked the tyranny of King George III to criticize programs that are the result of a checked, deliberative process across three branches of government.

On Fox News Sunday, Paul said the federal government's general search warrants were "partly what our Founding Fathers fought the revolution over."

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