Dick Durbin: “I have offered an amendment over the years to try to limit the metadata collection in terms of specific suspicion.”

We ask that you immediately provide all committee records that you have withheld, commit to fully complying with Senate Rules XXVI and XXVII going forward, and apologize to Mr. Smith on behalf of the Committee.

Transferring immigrants to Guantánamo Bay is simply unlawful, and worse yet, inhumane.

These changes threaten to undermine the work of the FBI and pose a grave risk to the Bureau’s integrity.

The lowering of the FBI's hiring standards "threaten[s] to undermine the work of the FBI and pose a grave risk to the Bureau's integrity.