Representative Heather Wilson: “on rollcall No. 401 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''”

If my colleague would think about that for a second, you've got a tip. Most people know that a lot of big cities have gang units. Put this in this context. You got a tip that somebody may be a terrorist overseas, but really all you have is…

Absolute prohibition. And I think we need to get back to some basics here, which is, number one, the current law requires that you need a warrant to wiretap a U.S. person for the purposes of collection of foreign intelligence. That's what…

I became absolutely determined to get this fixed, and it was a result of a series of cases in what I saw as a growing problem in intelligence collection. But so that people understand, in 1978 the Congress passed a law that governed…

You may not even know who the person is being called, other than it is an area code and number in the United States, which means you don't have any probable cause. You have to send the FBI out and find out whose number that is and whether…