"But I've sort of tongue-in-cheek said that if I had the choice, I'd put Clapper and Snowden in the same jail cell for about the same period of time. That's not

"But I've sort of tongue-in-cheek said that if I had the choice, I'd put Clapper and Snowden in the same jail cell for about the same period of time. That's not a serious question, but I think it'd be an interesting debate they might have about liberty versus security." "Snowden has said he would have tried official channels to reveal this to someone officially, but that the whistleblower statute doesn't apply to contractors. So I [Rand Paul] actually have an amendment that would try to make that so. So if you're a contractor doing business with an intelligence agency and you find that they're breaking the law—and interestingly, the courts have now said the NSA is breaking the law. " - https://reason.com/reasontv/2015/06/04/rand-paul-on-edward-snowden https://reason.com/reasontv/2015/06/04/rand-paul-on-edward-s... - https://theintercept.com/2015/05/21/edward-snowden-cheers-rand-paul/ https://theintercept.com/2015/05/21/edward-snowden-cheers-ra... I don't think 'tongue-in-cheek' counts as policy.