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FBI abuses restricted database, accessing personal communications without justification. Congress debates Section 702 renewal amid calls for reforms to protect Americans' privacy.

Tragedy here in the united states. its really the first opportunity we had to look back at these ten or 11 years and say did we get the balance right. personally, im told the president is going to talk about reducing the pervasiveness of some of the surveillance programs, the met data, collection programs. i think thats important, personally. this is the first time an awful lot of americans thought about the fisa court, which is an important work in protecting civil liberties, but few know about...

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Fertile ground for government distrust and more leaks. so lets talk about at least one particular audience here, which is the american people who are learning, for example, as the congressman said about things like the fisa court. what does the prosecute have to accomplish today. >> well, in some ways, things are stacked in his favor. statistically, theres much more support for the presidents surveillance agenda and less support for the snowden leaks than there was at the time i wrote that piece...