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Representative Heather Wilson: One of the ironies here is that some of our colleagues on the Intelligence Committee who were worried about this new law…

On the recordSeptember 25, 2007
One of the ironies here is that some of our colleagues on the Intelligence Committee who were worried about this new law said well, can you tell us how often you collect information that is to, from, or about Americans in the normal intelligence collection? Well, that would require the intelligence agencies to go back and mine their databases, much of which, frankly, is not even touched and actually probably violate the privacy of Americans in ways that they do not now do so in order to make a report to the Congress about collection of information that happened to be incidentally about Americans. If the North Koreans called the, pick one, Iranians and are talking about one of our colleagues in the Congress, that's a conversation about an American.

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Discussing concerns about intelligence collection and privacy related to a new law.

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