Ordering the phone companies who had been subpoenaed not to disclose to the members of the Senate and the members of the House that their phone records had been subpoenaed. As you noted in your testimony, that order is directly contrary to federal statute. Congress in 2004 made it illegal for a phone company to disclose a senator's phone records without notifying the senator in question. Is there any basis for a judge. To disregard unambiguous federal statutory language? Absolutely not. (00:53–01:02)
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Asserts that a 2004 federal law requires phone companies to notify senators if their records are disclosed.
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