Jeb Bush Says NSA needs
broader powers to combat 'evildoers'
Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush
said Tuesday that the government should have broad surveillance powers of
Americans and private technology firms should cooperate better with
intelligence agencies to help combat "evildoers."
At a national security forum
in the early voting state of South Carolina, Bush put himself at odds with Republican
congressional leaders who earlier this year voted to end the National Security
Agency's bulk collection of phone records.
The former Florida governor said Congress should revisit its changes to
the Patriot Act, and he dismissed concerns from civil libertarians who say the
program violated citizens' constitutionally protected privacy rights.
"There's a place to
find common ground between personal civil liberties and NSA doing its
job," Bush said. "I think the balance has actually gone the wrong
way."
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Bush told CBS News that he
disagreed with rival Donald Trump on the birthright of children born in the
United States to parents who are immigrants living in the country illegally.
"That's a
constitutional right," Bush said. "Mr. Trump can say he's for this
because people are frustrated that it's abused. We ought to fix the problem
rather than take away rights that are constitutionally endowed."
Bush also opposed Trump's
idea of a fence or wall along the border.
"It's not realistic to
create a fence in places where fences can't be built. You'd have people,
American citizens, on the south side of the fence in some places. Or they're on
the wrong side of the fence," Bush said.
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