Devin Nunes: “Just a couple of comments for some of my colleagues who I know are concerned that this doesn't go far enough. One of the…”

“Just a couple of comments for some of my colleagues who I know are concerned that this doesn't go far enough. One of the concerns they have is that there is an ongoing investigation led by the U.S. attorney out of Connecticut, and there is a lot of consternation on our side of the aisle that nothing has been done yet. I want to assure my colleagues that even if that gets to a point where people are held accountable for what we believe to be criminal activity, these reforms in this new piece of legislation where we opened up title I, we believe that we have all the reforms that are necessary to prevent this malfeasance from happening again in the future. {time} 1615 If this doesn't work and if this does happen again, I think then you will have what some people want, which is a complete elimination of the court and this entire system. I hope that we don't get to that point in this country, because these tools have worked well as long as the people who are conducting and using these surveillance capabilities don't decide to turn them on political opponents. So I want to, you know, assure my colleagues on this side of the aisle that we feel like these reforms are as far as we need to go at this time, no matter what the ultimate conclusion is of the U.S. attorney out of Connecticut on whether or not to bring charges against those who perpetrated these crimes and criminal activity.…”