And so why would the FBI go before a judge and have to make a probable cause argument when they can just go to meta and just buy it? We tried to pass laws to say that the FBI could not buy, like use data brokers to get information that would otherwise require a warrant. Yes. And I mean you might as well have been cheerleading the fall of the twin towers making that suggestion. People were saying, oh, we're going to have the next 9 11. (55:50–56:02)
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Asserts that there was an attempt to legislate against the FBI using data brokers to bypass warrant requirements.
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