Bob Goodlatte: “The President has taken it a step further and has actually given legal documents to the people in that circumstance.”

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

I would call attention to something we haven't talked much about here today, and that is the fact that, when the FISA court issues warrants allowing for the surveillance of various parties that are brought to the attention of the court…

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 the PATRIOT Act went off track in not defining some of the areas that set parameters around government gathering data.