safety. now i pray for joe biden and speaker boehner, too. but so do they. fair enough. senator, i want to start with what we re learning, and i know you ve gotten some briefings from the white house. is it fair to say that the president really is basically announcing very tepid reforms? well, i haven t seen what he s going to announce yet. i did read the article in the new york times this morning on it. but we do need reforms. that s the most important thing. the reports are that he would agree with the position i ve taken and several others, like congressman sensenbrenner, and others, to have a public advocate in the fisa court. that seems to be the only thing he seems to be endorsing. but it s a significant one, and i think it would improve the credibility of the court. right. and i think we should make more of the decisions public. they could be done so the intelligence people, telling me
we opposed its reauthorization a few tiles, 2008, 2011. even congressman sensenbrenner who wrote it said that the use of this section to justify dragnet under surveillance, with i seems to be against the text of what we wrote, the section says, the records to be demanded have to be relevant to an ongoing investigation and the way the pfizer court has interpreted that at the behess of the administration is everything is relevant. you might find a needle in the haystack, which is to say every phone call is relevant. which rubs it of all meaning. they have not been good on this state secrets act or the state secrets act which basically has been used be think administration as by the bush administration to stop every lawsuit alleging violation of rights simply by saying this is a state secret, you can t even try the case. so i think that there is going to be a lot of push back. both from the liberal leaning
helps keep this nation safe. it is a major tool inferet ferr out a potential attack. legislatively you and senator feinstein have promp, you have differing views on prifrsey and security. that s democracy. we have congressman sensenbrenner, republican in the house. i have similar legislation. i think that we are that s why i m having hearings. before these hearings were always in closed doors. we can t tell you what we heard. i ve had the hearings in open session. i think it s been an eye-opener to the american people when they found out how much of their privacy is invade day by day. we re willing to give up some privacy but not everything.
students are now organizing on that issue asking the state to get involved. i m not sure that north carolina republicans expected this level of outrage and push-back to what they have done. but there is an incredible level of outrage and push-back that is now being made manifest every day. and if you want to talk about really interesting and really unpredictable, consider what also happened today in washington, d.c. today one of the top republicans in the house, james sensenbrenner of wisconsin, republican, said that he personally intends to resurrect the aforementioned voting rights act that was gutted by the supreme court earlier this year. congressman sensenbrenner, again, a republican, said that not only does that law need to come back, it needs to come back soon. i am committed to restoring the voting rights act as an effective tool to prevent discrimination. more subtle discrimination now than overdiscrimination. my job is to fix the voting
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