Access Quote by Marco Rubio

What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of…

— Ted Cruz

The USA FREEDOM Act ends the NSA's unfettered data collection program once and for all, while at the same time preserving the government's ability…

— Ted Cruz

The USA Freedom Act expands that so now we have cell phones, now we have Internet phones, now we have the phones that terrorists…

— Ted Cruz

If a regular law enforcement agency wants your phone records, all they have to do is issue a subpoena. But now the intelligence agency…

— Marco Rubio

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

We were still able to see the phone records of a potential terrorist cause, we held them, now you have to hope the phone…

— Barack Obama

We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that our intelligence…

— John O. Brennan

The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that…

— Michael K. Simpson

The Patriot Act is ludicrous. Terrorists have proved that they are interested in total genocide, not subtle little hacks of the U.S. infrastructure, yet…

— Kevin Mitnick

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding…

— Chris Chocola

The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

— Chris Chocola

The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to…

— Jon Porter