‘We Kill People Based on Metadata’ by David Cole | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

From a USA Freedom Act reality check

"As NSA General Counsel Stewart Baker has said, “metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody’s life. If you have enough metadata, you don’t really need content.” When I quoted Baker at a recent debate at Johns Hopkins University, my opponent, General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA, called Baker’s comment “absolutely correct,” and raised him one, asserting, “We kill people based on metadata.”"

‘We Kill People Based on Metadata’ by David Cole | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books