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Patrick Leahy: “I have concluded that this phone records program is not uniquely valuable enough to justify the massive intrusion on…”

On the recordJanuary 13, 2014
I have concluded that this phone records program is not uniquely valuable enough to justify the massive intrusion on Americans' privacy.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Leahy critiques the phone records program's value versus privacy invasion.

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