Jeff Merkley: “Absolutely. I think about other questions our constituents might ask. They might ask if our spy agencies are collecting…”

“Absolutely. I think about other questions our constituents might ask. They might ask if our spy agencies are collecting vast data from around the world and they become interested in an American citizen, can they search all that data without getting a warrant--a warrant that is very specific to probable cause and an affirmation. Again, I suspect the answer we could give to the citizen would be that we cannot give a very precise evaluation of that, not knowing how the concept of information related to an investigation has been interpreted and laid out.”