Arlen Specter: “The national security letters are stronger in the conference report than they were in the Senate bill. The conclusive…”

“The national security letters are stronger in the conference report than they were in the Senate bill. The conclusive presumption in the conference report is more protective than the language in the Senate bill on conclusive presumption. The conference report picking up the Senate bill provisions improves the civil liberties protection from existing law by the explicit right of the recipient to go to court to quash or to make the disclosure to the target.”