Hey Cuccinelli, you didn't build that NSA lawsuit!

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-rand-paul-and-ken-cuccinelli-accused-of-stealing-nsa-lawsuit/2014/02/12/058675aa-942b-11e3-83b9-1f024193bb84_story.html

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1. Sickening political theater. I did like the part where Cuccinelli complained in an e-mail to

attorney Bruce Fein that “our clients don’t want the lawyers to become the story.” Ommm.....exactly who are your clients Cuccinelli? Would your clients be FreedomWorks? Because you replaced Bruce Fein with yourself, and Sen Mark Udall (D-Col) with Freedomworks. As to the defendants you dropped the defense secretary and the AG and added President Obama.

Is this a lawsuit or a script for political theater? Are you interested in any of this, or just doing your part in the dog and pony show for FreedomWorks? I hope everyone sees through your charade. AND I hope Obama and the other defendants tell you to blow them, and then remind you that, oh yeah, you couldn't get that law passed either.

From the article:

The unceremonious jettisoning of a constitutional lawyer in favor of the man best known for his unsuccessful suit to have Obamacare declared unconstitutional suggests that Paul’s legal action has more to do with politics than the law. And there are other clues. In Fein’s version, Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) was listed as a plaintiff along with Paul, but in the final complaint the Democrat was gone and the tea party group FreedomWorks was added in his place. Both suits list as defendants the director of national intelligence, the FBI director and the director of the NSA, but Fein’s version had named the defense secretary and the attorney general. Cuccinelli’s version dropped those two — but added President Obama as a defendant, an incendiary change

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2. "Rand Paul and Ken Cuccinelli accused of stealing NSA lawsuit"

"Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has been caught using purloined passages in several of his speeches. Now the aspiring presidential candidate stands accused of filing a lawsuit stolen from its author.

Since December, the libertarian lawmaker, a tea party favorite, had been working with former Reagan administration lawyer Bruce Fein to draft a class-action suit seeking to have the National Security Agency’s surveillance of telephone data declared unconstitutional; the two men appeared together as early as last June to denounce the NSA’s activities.

But when Paul filed his suit at the U.S. District Court in Washington on Wednesday morning, Fein’s name had been replaced with that of Ken Cuccinelli, the failed Republican gubernatorial candidate in Virginia who until last month had been the state’s attorney general. Cuccinelli has never argued a case in that courthouse, and he isn’t even a member of the D.C. bar (he also filed a motion Wednesday seeking an exception to allow him to argue this case in D.C.). But he is, like Paul, a tea party darling.

Fein, who has not been paid in full for his legal work by Paul’s political action committee, was furious that he had been omitted from the filing he wrote. “I am aghast and shocked by Ken Cuccinelli’s behavior and his absolute knowledge that this entire complaint was the work product, intellectual property and legal genius of Bruce Fein,” Mattie Fein, his ex-wife and spokeswoman, told me Wednesday. “Ken Cuccinelli stole the suit,” she said, adding that Paul, who “already has one plagiarism issue, now has a lawyer who just takes another lawyer’s work product.”

thanks for the link, stg.

Oh but please proceed standing with rand. lol

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3. Random Paul has beclowned himself yet again