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On the recordJune 18, 2013
the more you aggregate large quantities of metadata, potentially on every single American citizen, and you give someone within the executive branch of government the power to search all of that, you do give them a pretty broad view into the lives of the American people.
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Mike Lee
Republican · Utah

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Lee emphasizes concerns about government surveillance of citizens through metadata collection.

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