If Jeb Bush really wants to stop terrorism, then why does he support illegal immigration and open borders? Because he’s another RINO phony.

“The husband flies to the Middle East, the husband is in contact with multiple people on the terror watch list, the wife is publicly pledging her allegiance to ISIS on social media and the Obama administration caught none of that — zero” -Ted Cruz

Jeb Bush on Monday slammed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for his opposition to the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of phone call [data of innocent Americans without any warrant] in the wake of last Wednesday’s terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, arguing that the authority, which lapsed days before the shooting, is part of protecting the United States.

“I completely disagree with Ted Cruz on this. This is part of a comprehensive strategy to protect the homeland,” the former governor of Florida said in an interview with “Fox and Friends” from Miami, when asked whether he disagreed with Cruz and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. “Civil liberties are not being violated, and to have the NSA have this information is part of an essential tool for us to be kept safe.”

Under the USA Freedom Act, which Cruz voted for in June, the U.S. government can only access two years’ worth of telephone records from the husband and wife terrorists in California, according to the AP. Prior to the Freedom Act, the government would have been able to analyze five years’ worth of data. Investigators now must first obtain a warrant before accessing and analyzing bulk telephone records, while they had not been obligated to do so under the 9/11-era PATRIOT Act. The two years would cover the time in which Tashfeen Malik arrived in the U.S. under a fiancée visa but would not in the case of her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, who was born in the U.S. in 1987.

Paul did not vote for the Freedom Act, arguing that it did not go far enough to protect civil liberties. In defending his stance, Paul told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday morning, “We’ve studied this issue, and we found that the bulk data collection program didn’t catch any terrorists and didn’t prevent any attacks.”

Bush, on “Fox and Friends,” said President Barack Obama should have called last night for reinstating the NSA’s collection of phone metadata, which expired in late November, “to make sure that we’re safe here in the homeland.”

“It was a disappointing speech to say the least,” he said of Obama’s primetime address.

Bush is hardly the first Republican to criticize Cruz specifically. In an interview with “Morning Joe” last Tuesday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said the junior Texas senator made the U.S. less safe in that he “went for the easy political vote at a time when it looked like a popular thing to do.” Sen. Marco Rubio has also attacked Cruz for his vote, after which the Cruz campaign called out Rubio for what they said was a mischaracterization of the USA Freedom Act.

Cruz on Monday blamed the Obama administration for “making this same mistake Sen. Rubio is making,” which is targeting law-abiding citizens instead of terrorists. In a radio interview with Mike Gallagher, he reiterated that the administration is not focused on radical Islamic terrorism.

“The husband flies to the Middle East, the husband is in contact with multiple people on the terror watch list, the wife is publicly pledging her allegiance to ISIS on social media and the Obama administration caught none of that — zero,” Cruz said, referring to the couple that killed 14 and wounded 21 more in last week’s shooting.

The USA Freedom Act, he said, gives the government the authority to target and monitor terrorists, their cellphones and emails. “It’s a much broader universe that we can now access today than we could under the old program, and that makes us much safer,” Cruz said.

[Politico]