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Jerry Nadler: “I have never voted to reauthorize Section 702. I am deeply uncomfortable, as we should all be, with the legal fiction…”

On the recordJuly 13, 2023
I have never voted to reauthorize Section 702. I am deeply uncomfortable, as we should all be, with the legal fiction that it is permissible for the government to search our most private communications without a warrant simply because they were aiming for non-U.S. persons overseas.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Nadler expresses his opposition to reauthorizing Section 702 due to privacy concerns.

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