Have Google and Verizon and the rest said, if you come and ask me for information, I won't hand it over. What has happened is those investigations that have already started continue. Okay? Our ability to continue to listen to bad guys talking to bad guys abroad continues. The question is whether you can start new actions. And we are now, and I've not gotten a report yet, whether the telcos and the Googles are going to continue to adhere or whether because they don't have the indemnification, they'll stop participating. (26:51–26:57)
CLAIM
Asserts that surveillance of foreign threats continues despite the lapse.
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