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Mike Lee: “I assure you, as a recovering lawyer myself, there is no context in civil discovery or otherwise in which one may define…”

On the recordJuly 30, 2013
I assure you, as a recovering lawyer myself, there is no context in civil discovery or otherwise in which one may define 'relevance' broadly enough to take in information regarding each and every single American who owns a telephone.
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Mike Lee
Republican · Utah

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Senator Lee critiques the broad definition of relevance in metadata collection.

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