Rand Paul:
“…This was a conspiracy. The question is, did President Obama direct it all or did Vice President Biden? Now, we now know for a fact that Vice President Biden was involved, and he needs to be questioned on this because we can’t elevate someone to the presidency who’s willing to use the intelligence community to spy on his political opponents. That should be a deal killer.”
“I think this is astonishing that Vice President Biden and really, all of President Obama’s inner circle individually were requesting the unmasking of a political opponent,” Paul said. “There was a whole to-do about trying to impeach a president, saying they were using the power of government to go after a political opponent. This is a … smoking gun if there ever was one. That Vice President Biden was using the power of government, abusing that power to go after a political opponent. Essentially, unmasking someone is the equivalent of illegally wiretapping them.”
“It’s illegal to listen to people’s private conversations. You can listen to, if you have a national security matter, a foreigner. But unless the foreigner is saying, ‘We’re going to blow up the Capitol, will you help me?’ you don’t get to listen to the other person’s conversation if they’re just talking. So, Gen. Flynn was never accused of saying anything untoward, never saying anything that was committing a crime but they all listened to his conversation, and then they all decided, ‘We’ve got to get this guy.’…”