Paul: Bulk surveillance 'fundamentally unconstitutional'

Sen. Rand Paul says the National Security Agency's massive surveillance program is "fundamentally unconstitutional" and can't be saved by more oversight.

The founders, he said, intended for warrants to apply to individuals, not to widespread groups.

"These warrants say we want all of Verizon's phone calls," the Kentucky Republican said on "Fox News Sunday." "All of AT&T's phone calls...They basically are looking at, I believe, all of the cell phone calls in America every day."

And the bulk collection of data, he said, is overwhelming the nation's intelligence agencies and causing them to miss suspicious activities, citing the example of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older of the pair of brothers accused of bombing the Boston Marathon.

"We need more people doing specific intelligence data on people who we have suspicion of rather than doing it on suspicion-less searches of all Americans' phone calls," he said.