In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days' worth of phone records for a single individual were not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The NSA today, though, collects hundreds of millions of phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans without an individualized warrant.

I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.

General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.

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