10.08.2013 - 07:03 [ Washington Post ]

Whoa: Watch the PATRIOT Act’s author warn Congress might cancel the spying program

(17.07.) Section 215 requires the government to certify that its information requests are relevant to an ongoing terrorist investigation. But Sensenbrenner notes that the government claims that records of every phone call in America is relevant to a terrorism investigation. He asked: “Doesn’t that make a mockery of the legal standard, because you’re trying to have it both ways?”