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The privacies of each and every american? but also protect the security of our country? theres a fine balance there. so im open to listen to all the recommendations that has come out to see if we can improve upon that. without infringing on my rights and my freedoms and my privacy. but also ive got to give a little bit as i understand. i remember the days i used to walk on an airplane without any scrutiny, without any security whatsoever. those days have past. you know what? i still fly. >> do y...

The governments position is challenged by an adversary. >> the nsa is pushing back hard on any reform. last night granted unusual access to "60 minutes". and nsa officials defended widening surveillance powers. >> my concern on that, especially whats going on in the middle east, what you see going on in syria, what we see going on, egypt, libya, iraq, is much more unstable. the probability that a terrorist attack will occur is going up. and this is precisely the time that we should not step back...

Structured in a way that minimizes any unnecessary intrusion on the the policy. another disagreement is this is not a partisan issue. there are a great many republicans who equally take issue and some of the leadership of the effort to restructure the data program has come from gop quarters. so its not a democrat versus republican and the lines actually cross cut in many interesting ways but i do think we have an obligation beyond simply saying there are threatses out there, therefore we give th...

Official that got his conviction in the iran contra scandal overturned on appeal. at the time tia was designed to be a sweeping new electronic data program. the idea was that a potential terrorist would leave a digital trail but to find that trail you had to collect all of the digital information there was, from anywhere and everywhere you could find it and it had a creepy logo of a pyramid with this eye looking down on earth. look at this thing. if you were to ask alex joans to design a number ...

Necessary in the fight against terrorism. listen. >> you never know which dot is going to be t. what you want is as many dots as you can. if you close down a program like this youre removing dots from the playing field. now, it may make that decision that its not worth it but let there be tho mistake there will be those fewer dots out there to connect if you do not have that ability to go back in records. >> he also gave an example. he said in 2003 authorities investigating a guy in san diego fo...

E-mails. >> what are the consequence. we are not near the election. >> it is time off the clock. >> it is exactly that. >> time off the clock matters. >> if you get your forces aligned properly, if you light a fire under the members with the kind of communication harry is talking about, you can make things happen. what bothers me is a sense of fatigue about trying, thinking new ways. >> we are going to continue more about one of the bright, shining objects that is sort of making news. when we co...

Syria, the best solution is to make sure they dont leave, to give them safe harbor and build a sunni-led force to take out isis. the argument about protecting the homeland is important. dont get me wrong. it is really important. i think we need to make sure the fbi deals with local law enforcement better. we need to restore the met data program. we need to make sure our int intelligence capabilities are shared in a better way. across the board, we need to review every element, the ki visa, fianc...

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