03/09/2015
https://www.congress.gov...
"As I understand it, the NSA's collection of metadata... is accomplished pursuant to Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act."
"We were unable to speak about this publicly because we have secret procedures being undertaken pursuant to secret law."
"Yet regardless of how difficult it might be to define in the abstract what relevance is, don't you think we have left the station of relevance long before we get to the point of collecting metadata on..."
"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 sing..."