FBI is buying Americans’ location data, Kash Patel tells Senate committee – US politics live

FBI director says agency does ‘purchase commercially available information’ from data brokers; Ron Wyden calls action ‘an outrageous end run around the Fourth Amendment’

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Rand Paul seemed immediately frustrated with Mullin as he opened the hearing. While he was speaking, he suggested that Mullin wasn’t listening to his remarks, during which he pushed Trump’s nominee on his vote against Paul’s amendment to stop all funding for refugee welfare programs.

“You decided to transfer the blame. You told the media that I was a ‘freaking snake’ and that you completely understood why I had been assaulted,” Paul said, referring to when he was attacked by a neighbor in Kentucky in 2017, which resulted in Paul breaking several ribs and developing pneumonia.