Jeff Sessions actually said...

I believe the PATRIOT Act that he helped craft and we all worked on... was not one of these things where you have to reduce constitutional rights in order to protect America.

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Sessions defends the PATRIOT Act as consistent with constitutional rights.

01/13/2014

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