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On the recordMay 20, 2015
Your sincere belief is that if this sunsets, this bulk collection in the way the PATRIOT Act has been enforced before--if it sunsets and it goes away, which we agree that we are trying to replace that before the sunset--you believe the system we have had in place before the PATRIOT Act of 2001 gives us still the ability to keep the homeland safe, using the court system, as you say, following the rabbit down the hole using the court system? Because we know we have rapid fire coming at us from different directions and people trying to come into this country and do harm. Social media has blown up even since 2001, so we are much more vulnerable from that standpoint. What I am hearing you say also is that you are not really objectionable if you can find the right language--if you thought you could get protection of that individual without the interpretation of the entire broadness of the corporations.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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