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Receiving an invitation for a senator to begin with. cant really add those pieces up yet. but what is chuck grassley saying? >> it sounds like envelopes got mixed up, but senator grassley said it was about him. this kind of thing fuels the deep concerns many people have about political targeting by the irs and by officials at the highest level. its very troubling that a simple clerical mix-up could get a taxpayer immediately referred for an irs exam without any due diligence from agency official...

Is there anyone at the vast array of what you guys are doing that steps back and says, all right, our goal is to protect privacy and civil liberties and we are doing the very best we can, is there an internal control audit so to speak that looks that the entire system that says we have the waterfront covered and we are doing what we need to be doing? >> ill start. there are the periodic reviews that ive described that audit everything that is done under both of these programs by both nsa and the...

Continually briefed on how these are conducted, there are a whole range of safeguards involved and federal judges are overseeing the entire program throughout. were also setting up -- weve also set up an audit process when i came into office to make sure that were after the fact making absolutely certain that all the safeguards are being properly observed. now, having said all that, youll remember when i made that speech a couple of weeks ago about the need for us to shift out of a perpetual min...

There are a whole range of safeguards involved, and federal judges are overseeing the entire program throughout. were also setting up -- weve also set up an audit process when i came into office to make sure that were after the fact making absolutely certain that all the safeguards are being properly observed. now, having said all that, youll remember when i made that speech a couple of weeks ago about the need for us to shift out of a perpetual war mindset. i specifically said that one of the t...

Bipartisan majorities have approved them. congress is continually briefed on thousand hess are conducted. there are a whole range of safeguards involved and federal judges are overseeing the entire program throughout. we are also setting up, weve set up an audit process when i came into office to make sure that were after the fact, making certain that all the safegads are being properly served. now having said all that. youll remember when i made that speech a couple of weeks ago the need for us...

2008. and hes been an aggressive defender of these kinds of programs during his time in office. he did make clear, ill say, brooke, that congress has oversight of this, and the courts do, but we should point out that the details of this are only shared in classified settings in a way where the public cannot find out about them. so it is a very small set of people who have known about it until now. >> yeah, mentioning congressional oversight a number of times when he spoke today and the federal j...

One other thing on software that i found interesting. for years, software companies have been concerned that bone o the biggest users of software is the chinese. according the chinese, according to our government, have promised to stop using counterfeit software. in fact, this time, have put money in a budget, in an audit process, to legalize the software used. if the chinese follow through on that, that would be a big win for the software industry. >> christine, that 245,000 jobs being supporte...

Have identified the fact in the process to get tax-exempt status they found people were discriminated against now they find that even in the audit process a few are approved it is still some -- easy for those three people to say we will audit we dont need leadership bad we cant freelance. kennedy: a lot of the groups are under surveillance before they were notified there was any issue or a potential audit. so they were spied upon for philosophical differences. >> i would like to see the irish st...