Supporters of the National Security Agency’s collection of phone records and metadata use debunked claims and weak arguments to prove their point, according to Cato Institute scholar Julian Sanchez.

Sanchez, responding to Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal defending the NSA program, called the case in favor of bulk collection “extraordinarily weak.”

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