Part of that letter said that, in effect, that all of the phone calls, meaning the telephony metadata, had to be collected pursuant to the court order...
But they don't determine which specific phone calls are relevant pursuant to the statute. You do that.
You are having it both ways.
This is a vast undertaking, and we are operating under somewhat of a time limit because the life of task forces are supposed to be 6 months.
I would like to thank each of the witnesses for very excellent testimony.
I think this confirms the point that all of us have been making on this issue and demonstrates the breadth of over-criminalization.
Nobody should be convicted of a crime that doesn't have the intent to do something that the law forbids.
We are not going to take that kind of 'no' for an answer.
How can Section 215 be utilized to scoop up the phone records of American citizens who are not in communication with a foreigner?
I had a hand in drafting, requires that the business records FISA warrants, or orders, be directed solely at foreigners.
There are no due process protections in place because the recipient of the FISA warrant can't tell what records he's turned over.