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On the recordJuly 16, 2013
Do you think a program of this magnitude, gathering information involving a large number of people involved with telephone companies and so on, could be indefinitely kept secret from the American people?
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Bob Goodlatte
Republican · Virginia

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Goodlatte questions the secrecy of a large surveillance program.

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