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Pete Hoekstra: “Until we fixed it. But in the FISA, you know, there was not a commonsense exception. I'm sure that there are lots of…”

On the recordSeptember 25, 2007
Until we fixed it. But in the FISA, you know, there was not a commonsense exception. I'm sure that there are lots of people in America today who have paid a penalty or whatever, believing that what they were doing was, you know, it's just common sense. And they went in front of a judge or maybe they got called in front of a committee in Congress and they found out that their definition of common sense happened to be very different than maybe what the Members of Congress would have defined common sense; and when they got in a court of law, they found out that there wasn't a common sense objective or a common sense exception and found that they'd violated the law.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

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Discussing issues related to the FISA and the lack of a commonsense exception.

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