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I should remind you of the NSA’s routine practice of vacuuming up essentially every electronic communication in this country and putting it into a database.
And I should remind you of an arcane agreement that allows three contractors for the federal government to search through that database.
Lastly, I will remind you that tens of thousands of illegal searches of that database have been done. Read the FISC annual report that describes this illegal activity; every single year, it’s the same thing. Five years ago Adm. Mike Rogers tried to cut down on the illegal activity by limiting certain things but it continues to this very day.
Everybody in DC knows this happens, nobody ever gets a handle on it.
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