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John Cornyn: “Section 702 protects American citizens by saying only…”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 03:43

And frankly, the demand for a warrant to search lawfully collected foreign intelligence makes no sense whatsoever. So section 702 is probably the most important law most people have never heard about. It Section 702 protects American citizens by saying only foreigners can be the object of surveillance. But necessarily sometimes when the communication is between a foreign target and an American citizen or US Person, that call is documented in metadata, so called time, place and persons who've made the call. (03:43–03:53)

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Asserts that Section 702 targets only foreigners for surveillance, not American citizens.

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