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 potentially 300 million Americans?
Mike Lee: “Yet regardless of how difficult it might be to define in the abstract what relevance is, don't you think we have left…”
On the recordJuly 30, 2013
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Senator Lee questions the relevance of collecting metadata on millions of Americans.
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