“It’s a lot of rhetoric about transparency, with a few random claims about how important these programs are. Separately, he continued to insist that we’re better than some other countries (setting the bar low) and that we don’t spy on Americans — despite the evidence from this morning that this isn’t true. In answering questions, he insisted the two key programs being discussed, Section 215 of the Patriot Act and 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, were critical to finding important intelligence — despite the fact that multiple Senators have insisted that there remains no evidence that Section 215 was necessary in any terrorist case.”
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