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Russ Feingold: “Absolutely. There are standards, as I indicated in my statement. There have been rules about how law enforcement has to…”

On the recordOctober 11, 2001
Absolutely. There are standards, as I indicated in my statement. There have been rules about how law enforcement has to ascertain, whether it be at a phone bank or in somebody else's home, that there is a reasonable belief that the individual is actually there. Without that kind of rule, what we are doing is not just extending this authority to the reality that people have cell phones and move around and use different phones of their own, but it takes us into an area that, frankly, prior to September 11 we would never have dreamed of allowing.
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Russ Feingold
Democratic · Wisconsin

Editor's note · Context

Discussing law enforcement standards and authority in the context of post-September 11 security measures.

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