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But there are also definitions that sever the conceptual connection of terrorism with violence or with terror.
Most significantly, the version emerging from the rules committee expanded the definition of a "specific selection term," the root thing – formerly defined as information that "uniquely describe[s] a person, entity, or account" – the government must present to a judge, with suspicion of connection of terrorism or espionage, in order to collect data under the bill.
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But it also found other incidents in which the F.B.I.'s investigation of various groups was based on a weak case of connection to terrorism or any other crime.
Several feared that the legislation would not go far enough towards ending mass surveillance, given the NSA's continued ability under the bill to obtain thousands of "call records" from telecommunications companies based on a single judicial order requiring merely "reasonable articulable suspicion" of connection to terrorism.
But both of their names were added to the American TIDE database, a list of people suspected of some connection to terrorism that contained more than 500,000 names in 2011 and now has about 700,000 names.
It's easy, amid the legal and technical complexities, to lose sight of the question at the heart of this debate: whether the government should be able, without a showing of probable cause of a connection to terrorism, to obtain and store information that can often provide as wide a window on the private lives of Americans as the actual contents of phone calls.
"Most of these detainees have been cleared of any connection to terrorism.
Many of those in custody have been cleared of any connection to terrorism.
In a hearing on Capitol Hill yesterday, senators from both parties interrogated the N.S.A.'s leadership about its justification for mining the phone logs of millions of Americans who aren't suspected of having any connection to terrorism, saying the agency's top officials had greatly exaggerated the number of terrorist plots it had thwarted thanks to the program.
It is clear that Miranda was not suspected of any connection to terrorism.
There was not the slightest indication that there were any terrorists there or even the hint of a connection to terrorism.
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