CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings November 20, 2013
Say there is an attack or a bombing in a major american city, during a marathon. So, the boston bombing. Within a few days of that you have a suspect or two suspects identified. You have a cell phone that relates to one of those suspects. The question is can the government take the cell phone number and query the metadata to see the phone calls that number has made and the calls made to it . You could go to each of the providers and ask them individually for that information and hope that they kept that information for long enough to be relevant to provide the information you need,whether that...