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Jerry Nadler: I will say two things. Number one, the RESTORE Act, the bill that was pulled from the floor, number one takes care of…

On the recordOctober 23, 2007
I will say two things. Number one, the RESTORE Act, the bill that was pulled from the floor, number one takes care of that technological problem, just as the bill that was passed in August does, by updating and making clear that foreign-to-foreign communications that come through a server in the United States do not need a warrant. So that's not an issue because this bill does it. Second of all, let me just make the two points. And second of all, I think I heard you say, both of you, somebody here, that if you were tapping some terrorist abroad and he called into the United States and you heard him talk about terrorism with somebody in the United States, that you could not tap that, you could not use that information. That's simply not true.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

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Discussing the RESTORE Act and its implications for foreign communications surveillance.

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