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On the recordDecember 10, 2013
Isn't the problem that this relationship of trust has actually undermined trust in the American public and really threatens to completely eviscerate confidence in a system that operates in secret, makes secret law, and in the end the relationship of trust may undermine the whole system?
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Blumenthal questions the trust in the FISA system due to its secrecy.

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