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FILE PHOTO - Sen. Ron Wyden speaks during a markup on the"Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 15, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein
“The NSA’s sprawling phone records dragnet was born in secrecy, defended with lies and never stopped a single terrorist attack,” said Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, one of the bill’s main sponsors. The Patriot Act’s counter-terrorism measure, Section 215, allowed the NSA to collect Americans’ telephone data in bulk.
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