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On the recordJuly 30, 2013
It seems to me that what is being described as a narrow program is really a very broad program in terms of the metadata collection on the front end.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin critiques the perceived narrowness of the metadata collection program.

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