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Roy Blunt: “Well, if I determine to make that argument, I will tell my friend, I will make it in good faith, and we do have a…”

On the recordFebruary 7, 2008
Well, if I determine to make that argument, I will tell my friend, I will make it in good faith, and we do have a difference of opinion on this. Hopefully, the Senate will get its work done in a way that we will have a maximum amount of time in the relatively short time available here to look at this, and we won't have to have the argument about how critical that change is. I personally believe that the 1978 law was written in a way where it was not anticipated that we would have to go to the FISA Court to listen to people in a foreign country who were making calls or communicating, and because of the way the law was written, it had come to mean that by now.
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Roy Blunt
Republican · Missouri
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Discussing the implications of the 1978 law and its impact on FISA Court procedures.

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