Bob Goodlatte: “It seems to me a dereliction of duty when you wait 4 months to tell Congress, right?”

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

I do think they have jumped the guardrails.

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.