This pair of file photos shows Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, left, on Sept. 22, 2008, as he testified in a Miami court in the murder trial of former FBI agent John Connolly; and James "Whitey" Bulger, right, in a June 23, 2011 booking photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service. (AP Photos/J. Pat Carter and U.S. Marshals Service, File)
FBI director nominee James B. Comey Jr. knocked down the notion that federal judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court rubber stamp surveillance requests during testimony Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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