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Jeff Sessions: “If you wiretap a Mafia leader and he calls somebody whom the court does not have an approval for, you can listen in on…”

On the recordJune 16, 2009
If you wiretap a Mafia leader and he calls somebody whom the court does not have an approval for, you can listen in on that conversation.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions argues that lawful wiretaps on foreign individuals are constitutional.

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