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Zoe Lofgren: I thank the gentleman for yielding. The unclassified FISA court reported that the 702 search had, in fact, scooped up…

On the recordJune 10, 2015
I thank the gentleman for yielding. The unclassified FISA court reported that the 702 search had, in fact, scooped up vast amounts of wholly domestic information. How does this work? The upstream communications are tapped into by the NSA. In the digital world, your digital information, your domestic information is stored throughout the world. It is scooped up, and it is used. The FBI has indicated it is used and the DNI has indicated it is used for wholly domestic purposes without a warrant routinely thousands, tens of thousands of times. It is in violation of the Fourth Amendment, and it must stop. I would just say, on the Judiciary Committee, every member of the committee who declined to support this amendment said they were for the amendment and said we should offer it to the DOD appropriations bill.
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Zoe Lofgren
Democratic · California
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Jun 10, 2015

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