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Protect peoples pry -- privacy and ensure oversight and strike the right balance. >> this is a dragnet. it is an over reach and we have to find out why this is justified because the nsa wants to do some data mining. >> here is the real challenge for the president is the fact that this issue of surveillance is not happening in a vacuum. it is homing after a series of other revelations and controversies confronting the administration about the irs abuses and targeting conservative groups. the atto...

Of our inventory. they know exactly what cases we had. how old they are, how long they have them and stuff like that. so these two rogue agents running amuck for three years or three months would never happen. he said it was an irs lawyer in washington paperwork on the conservative groups. >> has anyone been fired? >> no, lois lerner is on paid administrative leave and the former acting irs director, steven miller, he was allowed to re-sign early but the investigation continues and some house re...

Of success over the years if trying to find some of the al qaeda operatives and others if places like afghanistan, iraq, pakistan and so forth. bringing the debate back home, again, were talking about american citizens, i do agree strongly with michelle on at least one point. we need to protect peoples rights from abuse of government. i dont think the abuses have happened yet, but i think they could. the safeguards are not yet clear enough. the rules are not yet clear enough. thats where the oba...

A potential you know program run amuck, when you actually look at the details, then i think we have struck the right balance. particularly difficult for the president to make that case now though because of other alleged abuses of power from the irs to the james rosen case. this is not happening in a vacuum. its happening after a series of other charges that the government is overreaching right now, shep. >> shepard: there are republican criticisms, crack criticisms and most of those doing the c...

Briefed on these brams. and if in fact there was, there were abuses taking place, presumably, those members of congress could raise those issues very aggressively, theyre ep powered to do so. we have federal judges who are put in place, not subject to political pressure. theyve got lifetime tenure as federal judges and theyre empowered to look other our shoulder to make sure that that we have a system in which some information is classified. and we have a system of checks and balances to make su...

The president said. >> you can complain about big brother and potential you know program run among but when you look at the details i think weve struck the right balance. >> the latest revelations come after other alleged abuses of power. after signing off on james rosen as a possible criminal co-conspirat co-conspirator. i think you might argue it is the least transparent in recent

Of all the stuff weve done since 9/11 where weve had a lot of success over the years if trying to find some of the al qaeda operatives and others if places like afghanistan, iraq, pakistan and so forth. bringing the debate back home, again, were talking about american citizens, i do agree strongly with michelle on at least one point. we need to protect peoples rights from abuse of government. i dont think the abuses have happened yet, but i think they could. the safeguards are not yet clear enou...

Abuses taking place, presumably those members of congress could raise those issues very aggressively. theyre empowered to do so. we also have federal judges that we put in place who are not subject to political pressure. theyve got lifetime tenure as federal judges, and theyre empowered to look over our shoulder at the executive branch to make sure that these programs arent being abused. so, so we have a system in which some information is classifyied, and we have a system of checks and be balan...

Tracking of all of this we find out that somebody goes to a porn sight. some married man or something. then the government decides theyre going to use that against him because some future richard nixon decides that he doesnt like somebody and hes going to embarrass him publicly. thats the kind of thing that the personal infringement, embarrassment, vendetta i think we need to figure out how to prevent. im less worried about just the very fact the government looks at whos talking to whom. i think...

We need strong safeguards so there can not be future abuses of power by a government that decides to target people and use potentially embarrassing nfr ii information we should never. >> god forbid there was some kind of attack, that this metadata, had we analyzed it properly, could have prevented. thats what were all seeking to stop, no? >> well, theres no evidence that these sorts of metadata collection programs actually work in the terrorism context. weve been collecting this information for ...