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To hide his role in championing the use of Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act to collect of Americans' phone data and other "tangible things", one of the architects of that legislation, Wisconsin Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, edited a quote in a letter (pdf) to Attorney General Eric Holder Thursday to suggest he never knew how the FBI and NSA were using the authority his legislation had granted: "Section 215 has been used to obtain driver's license records, hotel records, car rental records, apartment leasing records, credit card records, and the like."
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How the US Congress lost the plot on secrecy, surveillance and accountability | Marcy Wheeler #privacy http://t.co/0inCYRTf9h |
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