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ISIS is the most sophisticated terror threat we have ever faced. We are now at a time when we need more tools, not less tools. And that took we lost, the metadata program, was a valuable tool that we no longer have at our disposal.

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Marco Rubio
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: May 28
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