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20% of u.s. calls. in general, they do not look at cell phone records. >> two stanford students put apps on phones and looked at their metadata they tried to dedeuce from other means from just the phone records, they could tell most of the time what your religion was, what doctor you were going to see, what kind of diseases you had. and even what kind of procedures you had. >> this program -- you get no names, no addresses, no personal identifying information. the nsa doesnt know you exist. they...

>> instantously if a terrorist calls into somebody in this country and theres an element of reasonable suspicion that you can go in and just query that data base for the call it makes, which the president has limited to two calls, and there by if there is something, you send it to the fbi. the fbi gets a probable cause warrant and they can go out and do a full investigation. when used with other things, its not only used alone, it has brought forward information, i believe on a number of attacks...

Verify "the guardian" found this. what is the objective of getting these numbers and skhrebgting these numbers -- and collecting these numbers? are they terrorist calls? is there reason to be suspicious? or is this abuse of the patriot act? >>steve: it is probably an abuse of section 215 of the patriot act. >>brian: which reads? >>steve: it said you can go after people based on individual investigation. if somebody is looking at, were going to follow this guy over this, you can go ahead and get ...

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