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On the recordSeptember 3, 2018
In your concurrence in Klayman v. Obama, you went out of your way to say that not only is the dragnet collection of America's telephone records by the National Security Agency okay because it is not a search, you also said, and I did not see any support in this, that even if it is a search, it is justified in order to prevent terrorism.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy questions Kavanaugh's opinion on NSA's phone records collection.

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