Debate Over Patriot Act Creates Unlikely Allies in 2016 Field
BY ANDREW RAFFERTY
It's likely to be one of the few things Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz will agree on this presidential campaign.
With key provisions of the Patriot Act set to expire on June 1, the Democratic frontrunner and GOP firebrand both support legislation that would end the government's bulk collection of phone records. The debate over if and how Congress should reauthorize controversial sections of the Patriot Act has caused one of the first major policy rifts among current and potential GOP presidential candidates and, in the case of Clinton and Cruz, produced some strange bedfellows.
Republicans Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham and Chris Christie favor renewing the Patriot Act as it currently exists ...
Polling shows a shifting trend as a growing number of Americans are more concerned with the government's ability to monitor terror threats than privacy rights ...
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/debate-over-patriot-act-creates-unlikely-allies-2016-field-n362011
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