Al Green actually said...

I assure you that I want us to secure our airports, our ports of entry, but I am also concerned about suspicionless surveillance.

But one can only imagine what Mr. J. Edgar Hoover would have done with this technology.

My concern is suspicionless surveillance, suspicionless surveillance, surveilling persons who are not under suspicion perhaps by accident.

You ought not be afraid to state facts. There are some people who don't want to hear me say, 'white men', but you have to state facts.