At a Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller was asked about the effectiveness of the Patriot Act’s Section 215, the section of law under which the government has required a Verizon subsidiary to turn over the metadata about calls made by all its subscribers. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), chairman of the committee, asked Mueller if he could provide a number of terrorism cases where Section 215 had been “critical” to the intelligence and law enforcement community.
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