After ensuring that key sections of the Patriot Act will expire at midnight Sunday, Kentucky senator Rand Paul said that some of his critics "secretly want" a terrorist attack in the United States while those anti-terror surveillance programs are shut down. "People here in town think I'm making a huge mistake," Paul said. "Some of them I think secretly want there to be an attack on the United States so they can blame it on me."
The Daily Caller has video of Paul's remarks: