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randome

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5. They do jump through hoops. That's why there is a legal warrant for the metadata collection.

Reply to Solly Mack (Reply #4)

Fri Jun 7, 2013, 07:13 AM

Jun 2013

That's why there is Congressional review and approval every 90 days. Are we going to start second-guessing every legal warrant that's issued now?

It was Bush who tried to do this without jumping through hoops and he got slapped down for it.

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