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Unnecessary under the fourth amendment. so this is a tool. we talked a lot last year about the metadata database. it does not compare in importance to 702. we can't lose 702. >> i agree. it is a little bit difficult to talk about things that do involve classified matters in public, but i think the public needs to know that there are multiple oversight layers, including the fisa court, congressional oversight, internal oversight within the fbi and intelligence community that protects americans from -- under their privacy rights, while targeting terrorists and people who are trying to kill us. i...

Look, the government has lots of oceans of data. the govement demands that i tell them every penny i make and how i made it. that also is in one sense an invasion of privacy. but there's a larger national purpose, which that serves. that same applies to this metadata collection. what do we do with the data? what we do, chris, let me give you an example. we roll up a terrorist cell, let's say yemen, which james rosen referred to in his piece, we roll up a terrorist cell there, find a cellphone about which we had no knowledge prior to that raid. we take that cellphone number, metaphorically, we ...

Look, the government has lots of oceans of data. the government demands that i tell them every penny i make and how i made it. that also is in one sense an invasion of privacy. but there's a larger national purpose, which that serves. that same applies to this metadata collection. what do we do with the data? what we do, chris, let me give you an example. we roll up a terrorist cell, let's say yemen, which james rosen referred to in his piece, we roll up a terrorist cell there, find a cellphone about which we had no knowledge prior to that raid. we take that cellphone number, metaphorically, w...