if there have been security breaches or cyber attacks, that necessarily hasn't been made public.

I appreciate that. And I will take you up on the offer to meet with me privately.

The Feinstein bill I think is a joke because it basically prohibits bulk collection, except as authorized under a subsection, which authorizes the intelligence community to keep on doing business as usual.

I would urge you to hurry up and to get the big place together.

And it cannot be permitted to stand, and it won't be permitted to stand.

I'm disappointed that he decided, evidently at the last minute, to pursue changes in the telephone metadata program recommended by his review group.

The FREEDOM Act is the only piece of legislation that attempts to comprehensively address this problem in a way that I think will get the support of a majority of the Members of both the House and the Senate.

This change moves us back toward the pre-9/11 approach.

I don't believe that's workable, not without seriously affecting the operation of the program and creating new data privacy concerns.

The Section 215 bulk telephone records program lacks a viable legal foundation under Section 215, implicates constitutional concerns under the First and Fourth Amendments, raises serious threat to privacy and civil liberties as a policy…

Congress never did intend to allow bulk collections when it passed Section 215, and no fair reading of the text would allow for this program.

I was the principal author of the PATRIOT Act that was signed by President Bush in 2001, and I also was the principal author of the two reauthorizations in 2006 and in 2011.

Why should we needlessly forego these potentially important intelligence leads?

Putting a private contractor between NSA and the data would compromise the utility and responsiveness of this asset.

I think it is disrespectful to the elected body to not provide those reports as required.

I think earlier you said one of the main goals that you have is to be responsive: 'We want to keep Congress informed.'

the USA FREEDOM Act, sponsored by Representative Sensenbrenner and Senator Leahy, is an excellent start toward restoring the privacy and the accountability that has been infringed by NSA practices.

I am very worried about an intelligence review structure where the Administration and the FISCs could sanction this.