Rand Paul: The Person Who Placed Tulsi Gabbard on the TSA Watchlist Should Be Fired

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PAUL: "I’m going to get to the bottom of this. This is offensive to every principle of civil liberty in our country. What we do think happened is she was put on a list for a speech violation, for her First Amendment speech, for her political opinions, I believe while she was a congresswoman. But then she was protected. So they put her on the list and then said, 'Oh, we don’t spy on congressmen,' until she wasn’t a congressman and then she automatically popped back up as someone we’re going to spy on. So I think there may be other congressmen. I’m going to find out if there are any congressmen or senators on the list because they’re protected from being spied on until they leave office and then we spy on them. This is a I real problem. I’ve been trying to get the information on this for close to a year. I sent letter after letter to the Biden Administration and got nothing. What I can tell you is the Trump Administration is cooperating, I think they want to get to the bottom of this. I want to find out who the person was, what their name was, and what their arguments were for putting Tulsi Gabbard on this list, and they need to be let go and never, ever put in this position again. But the program needs to be reformed also. We should not have anybody in America on a watch list because of their speech."