FBI Seemingly Says Obeying Constitution Just Too Slow
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:30 pm
In testimony before Congress, the FBI director seemingly stated that following procedures to ensure Constitution protections for citizens are followed just takes too much time.
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Aww....we have to wait a couple of hours to get the info we want from the Telco. It is just so much easier to collect it beforehand and have it where we want it...Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mr. Mueller addressed a proposal to require telephone companies to retain calling logs for five years — the period the N.S.A. is keeping them — for investigators to consult, rather than allowing the government to collect and store them all. He cautioned that it would take time to subpoena the companies for numbers of interest and get the answers back.
“The point being that it will take an awful long time,” Mr. Mueller said.
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