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Congressional interlocutors are two intelligence oversight committees, both in the house and in the senate, so they are used to operating in a classified environment. their staffs are. so that is primarily with whom we do business. but, on a piece of legislation, say in this case the fisa amendment act, we provided detailed briefings and papers on this to explain the law, explain the process it was governing. i cant comment on whether senators or representatives were all able to avail themselves...

Out of the intel communitys hand to the fbi to get a normal kind of search warrant or wiretap application that you would need to do any other kind of wiretap. everybody we have talked to has said that the nsa does not have the legal authority to do that. remember, in the bite he said i had the authority to do that. i think thats a real question. >> pete williams, kelly odonnell and chuck todd, thank you all very, very much. senator john thune is a member of the senate republican leadership and...

So we all look upon it, no matter what his or her motivation may have been, the damage that these revelations incur are huge. and so i hope were able to track down whoever is doing this because it is extremely damaging -- and it affects the safety and security of this country. >>ky assume from that --ky infer that there has been a referral to track down the leak? >> absolutely. nsa has filed a crimes report on this already. is there and some people would regard this person, he or she, as a whist...

Statute and has instead been collecting all americans information, telephone records, and deciding later whether those records are relevant. so thats the concern. >> their argument is that the phone companies refuse to keep the records for more than 90 days. so if they cant force the phone companies to spend the money to store all these data, that the government has to do it so that then they have something to look back at if they see a subsequent threat. >> sure. so then the government needs to...

Personal lives. what happens when youre gone, when this president or others in our government are gone. there can be another white house that breaks the law. there could be another dni who does really bad things. we listened during the water gate years to those tapes with the president of the united states saying firebomb the brookings institution. what do you say to the american people about the next regime who has all of these secrets? do they live forever somewhere in a computer? >> no, they ...

Polygraph, his background investigations, made copies of the documents, then slipped out, thats a question investigators will want to know, that the nsa will want to know. >> for instance, he says in his online video yesterday with glen greenwald"the guardian" he became disenchanted. how does he get past the polygraph -- >> theres a lot to have disenchanted with life, andrea. the response is not to go break the law. response to work through the process. >> how does he pass the polygraph and get ...