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Patrick Leahy: “But if our phone records are relevant, why wouldn't our credit card records be--wouldn't you like to know if somebody is…”

On the recordJuly 30, 2013
But if our phone records are relevant, why wouldn't our credit card records be--wouldn't you like to know if somebody is buying the fertilizer used in bombs?
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Leahy questions the relevance of credit card records if phone records are deemed relevant.

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