claim: regarding the usa freedom act, "there is nothing we are allowed to do under this bill that we could not do before."
author: marco rubio
evidence_1: dec 15, 2015 ... rubio accused cruz of hampering intelligence agencies by supporting the usa  freedom act, which ended the national security agency's vast collection of  millions of u.s. phone records. ... rubio stayed firm, claiming that “there is  nothing that we are allowed to do under this bill that we could not do before.
evidence_2: politifact national on wednesday, september 14th, 2016. half-true. some  streamlining, but no new legal powers. privacy · marco rubio · regarding the  usa freedom act, "there is nothing we are allowed to do under this bill that we  could not do before." — politifact national on wednesday, december 16th, 2015 .
evidence_3: we also know that the fisa court has admonished the government for making a  series of substantial misrepresentations to the court regarding these programs.  as a result, the intelligence community now faces a trust deficit with the american  public that compromises its ability to do its job. it is not enough to just make minor  ...
evidence_4: dec 16, 2015 ... rubio and cruz disagreed over the impact of the usa freedom act, which  amended government surveillance provisions of the patriot act. but their  argument was mainly over which system of information .... rubio: there is  nothing that we are allowed to do under this bill that we could not do before. this  bill ...
evidence_5: may 6, 2015 ... update—thursday, may 7: the day after we posted this article, the us court of  appeals for the second circuit in new york declared the nsa's domestic phone  metadata program illegal, on the ground that the usa patriot act provision on  which the nsa program had rested did not in fact authorize bulk ...