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Orrin Hatch: “The wiretapping provision is a broad investigational authority. It is not limited just to terrorism, but, currently…”

On the recordSeptember 13, 2001
The wiretapping provision is a broad investigational authority. It is not limited just to terrorism, but, currently, terrorism is not included in that authority. It is one of the defects in our system. All we are trying to do is get it included so we can find these people, and we can do it. Even so, before being granted wiretapping authority, you have to make a case, before a Federal judge, that you have probable cause to believe that the subject of the wire- tapping order has committed a serious criminal offense.
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Orrin Hatch
Republican · Utah
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Discussing the need to include terrorism in wiretapping authority during a Senate debate.

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