A community note attached to Senator Marsha Blackburn’s recent post points out an inconvenient truth about her own record. Blackburn accused AT&T and Verizon of failing to challenge subpoenas for the phone records of eight U.S. senators, alleging the Biden administration’s FBI “spied on us during an anti-Trump probe.”

However, users on Twitter added context explaining that the telecom companies were legally obligated to comply under the Patriot Act and other surveillance laws — measures that Blackburn herself voted to enact.

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Those laws, expanded in the wake of 9/11, greatly increased federal surveillance powers and res

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