Plenty of disagreement between the FBI Director and the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee about the telephone record collection practices of the National Security Agency.
FOX News Radio’s Rich Johnson in Washington has the details in our ongoing series on National Security:
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FBI Director Robert Mueller says the big limit on the program is that it only collects what’s called metadata.
Mueller: “That is, the fact of a telephone call, the numbers called and the time and length of those calls.”
But, Michigan Democrat John Conyers says, if every call record is collected because it’s deemed relevant:
Conyers: “Then the relevant standard we enacted into law has little practical meaning.”
Conyers says he fears we’re on the verge of becoming a surveillance state.
At the White House, Rich Johnson, FOX News Radio.
