Bob Goodlatte: “We have totally screwed up your industry relative to the constitution.”

For all the reasons cited by my distinguished colleagues, yes.

Right, but the sale of the information to the government puts the government in the picture as well and the Fourth Amendment is directed at the government not obtaining information without showing probable cause, without providing a…

I think there are a number of circumstances, particularly when civil rights, religious organizations, political campaigns, and other important things are being involved in surveillance, that there ought to be somebody not representing the…

The fact of the matter is this Committee has jurisdiction over this narrower focus regarding protecting the Fourth Amendment.