The standard for collecting phone records on Americans is now all phone records all the time all across America.
Jeff Merkley: “The standard for collecting phone records on Americans is now all phone records all the time all across America.”
On the recordJune 11, 2013
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Merkley questions the broad collection of phone records under current law.
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