Rand Paul's presidential campaign is firing back at Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker over comments he made about Sen. Rand Paul and NSA surveillance.
Walker, the likely presidential contender said on Wednesday that if he were in the Senate he would not have supported Rand Paul's Senate floor protest against the reauthorization of the Patriot Act and the the NSA's domestic surveillance programs.
"It's a shame to see that the Washington machine has co-opted Gov. Walker on this crucial issue," a Paul campaign spokesman said.
"We can protect Americans WITHOUT violating our freedoms and privacy. Clearly Gov. Walker is wiling to trample the Constitution and American's right to privacy in support of a program that law enforcement says has not resulted in a single terrorist arrest or thwarted terror plot and our courts have ruled to be illegal."
Walker said on Wednesday the United States needs "to have the capacity to collect information that can be used to identify individuals who are linked to enemy combatants who are gonna do us harm."
Walker added he didn't "share the same sentiment that Sen. Paul does."
Here's the audio that prompted the response from Paul's campaign:
