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Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., comments about the vote on the defense spending bill and his failed amendment that would have cut funding to the National Security Agency's program that collects the phone records of U.S. ... Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., comments about the vote on the defense spending bill and his failed amendment that would have cut funding to the National Security Agency's program that collects the phone records of U.S. citizens and residents, at the Capitol, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. The Amash Amendment narrowly lost, 217-205. The White House and congressional backers of the NSA's electronic surveillance program lobbied against ending the massive collection of phone records from millions of Americans saying it would put the nation at risk from another terrorist attack. MORE LESS
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Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) calls Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) “al Qaeda’s best friend in Congress.”

Amash is a fairly doctrinaire libertarian. So not surprisingly he’s very anti-NSA, anti-surveillance for a Republican. May or may not be your cup of tea. But perfectly legitimate positions. Amash is also Arab-American (of Christian Syrian and Palestinian extraction.) So it’s a slur on a couple different counts.

Just so wrong on so many levels.

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