Rand Paul Sues Obama, NSA on Behalf of All U.S. Phone Owners: Paul told reporters he was filing the motion as an individual citizen, "separate from [his] legislative function," at a Wednesday news conference held outside the courthouse. It calls for an end to the government's "mass, suspicionless, non-particularized collection, storage, retention and search of telephone metadata," which the governments justifies based on Section 215 of the Patriot Act.