01/31/2012
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"I would like to thank Senator Coons and Senator Leahy for introducing Senate bill 1385, the Federal Judgeship Act of 2013."
"As I understand it, the NSA's collection of metadata... is accomplished pursuant to Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act."
"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..."
"We were unable to speak about this publicly because we have secret procedures being undertaken pursuant to secret law."