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"They are not looking at people’s names, and they’re not looking at content. But by sifting through this so-called metadata, they may identify potential leads with respect to folks who might engage in terrorism. If these folks — if the intelligence community then actually wants to listen to a phone call, they’ve got to go back to a federal judge, just like they would in a criminal investigation."

So if you're not collecting names, whose name goes on the warrant once suspicious is aroused?




they are getting the data from different sources to not look too suspicious




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