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The administration reads Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act as giving its intelligence agencies broad discretion to obtain "any tangible thing" it deems relevant to an investigation.
And while it is known as the "business records" provision, it actually permits the collection of "any tangible thing" (such as blood or DNA samples) as long as it can be called "relevant".
It allowed the government to seize "any tangible thing" from a company as long as officials proved to the FISA court that the item was "sought for an investigation to protect against international terrorism".
"Any more information or any tangible thing we can take on those calls is very helpful," Knight told his colleagues.
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It allows the F.B.I. to obtain "any tangible things" — like business records about customers.
It allows a secret national security court to issue an order allowing the F.B.I. to obtain "any tangible things" in connection with a national security investigation.
Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allows the government to seize "any tangible things (including books, records, papers, documents, and other items) for an investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities".
Section 215 allows the government to seize "any tangible things (including books, records, papers, documents, and other items) for an investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities".
The second such provision allows the F.B.I. to get a court order to seize "any tangible things" deemed relevant to a terrorism investigation — like a business's customer records, a diary or a computer.
The expiring provisions allow investigators to get "roving wiretap" court orders for targets who switch phone numbers or providers; to seize "any tangible things" deemed relevant to an investigation, like a business's customer records; and to get wiretap orders against terrorism suspects who are not connected to any foreign terrorist group or government.
That section allows the FBI or others to apply to a FISA court for a warrant compelling businesses to turn over "any tangible things", as long as they are "relevant to an authorised preliminary or full investigation to obtain foreign intelligence information not concerning a US person".
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