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“If Congress were to shut down the government’s collection of phone records, which it has been secretly doing since 2006, “we wouldn’t be able to see the patterns that the NSA’s programs provide us,” said Patrick Kelley, acting general counsel of the FBI. Kelley added that the FBI would not be able to weed out significant phone data if it did not have the NSA’s massive data bank to tap into, and would lose valuable time if it had to instead seek the data from individual phone companies.” http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/11/04/nsa-fbi-lawyers-personal-data-and-phone-records-must-be-kept-by-government/ Good. The FBI should not be able to do anything, and as long as it exists, it should lose as much valuable time as possible. Abolish the FBI.