Reflecting on the speech, Mediaite's Colby Hall called it "passionate" and labeled Paul a "conservative iconoclast." Here's a video of the speech and some of the questions with which Paul wraps up (for full list, see FromTheOld or Mediaite):
Number 1: Do the America People deserve know the truth regarding the ongoing wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen?
Number 2: Could a larger question be how can an army private access so much secret information?
Number 3: Why is the hostility directed at Assange, the publisher, and not at our governments failure to protect classified information?
Number 4: Are we getting our moneys worth of the 80 Billion dollars per year spent on intelligence gathering?
Number 5: Which has resulted in the greatest number of deaths: lying us into war or Wikileaks revelations or the release of the Pentagon Papers?
(Hat tip: Mediaite for supplying the quotes)
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