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John Conyers: “If the Government can only collect metadata with a particularized showing of suspicion and the Government cannot hold…”

On the recordFebruary 3, 2014
If the Government can only collect metadata with a particularized showing of suspicion and the Government cannot hold information in bulk, what is left of the telephone metadata program?
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John Conyers
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Conyers questions the viability of the metadata program under new constraints.

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