Currently we do have a body of law with a substantial deference standard that is in the current law that this legislation repeals and does not substitute another standard and basically makes this a matter of judicial discretion.
He expresses concern about losing legal certainty with proposed changes to information suppression standards.
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I'm a veteran of impeachments. I've been named by the House as an impeachment manager in four impeachments.
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That is the beginning of a surveillance state which I think is outrageous, particularly since with the Freedom Act in 2013, we curtailed the NSC's ability about that.
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