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About. i have never felt that we ought to be contracting out all of this stuff in the first place. i think these people with this kind you have information should be people that are inside the government. they should be people that can be held to a higher standard. and that can be monitored about the governmental process. i dont think we ought to be contracting this kind of stuff out in the first place. >> okay. despite the nsa chief saying today that the leak surveillance programs had helped to...

Is important than privacy overall and the numbers get tighter when you talk about it. slim majority track phone tracking records -- >> first of all, that is fine, number one. number two, depends on how you phrase the question. the american people and i and you and everybody else wants our government to do everything that we can to stop terrorist attacks against america. nobody debates that but i also believe that most americans do not want to live in a society where virtually everything we do is...

Was doing in the 60s is whats going on here. theres no evidence of any of this. there are safeguards that have been built in and more since this president took office. but the question is what is the real threat? you say youre not particularly scared about what you heard. but there is a legitimate fear about terrorist attacks. and the question is what we as a country are willing to do and willing to sacrifice for it. and as the president said on friday, and i agree with him, the kinds of intrusi...

Thats sounds reasonable but right now not many people have trust in government, do they? >> lot of people dont trust the government. lot of people dont trust the big federal government and thats going to cause a lot of heartburn for a lot of the officials who are deeply involved in this, if you speak to national security types and members of the intelligence committees and others, they say that these programs have been very successful in avoiding and averting terrorist attacks against the united...

Misdemeanor. >> i think the intelligence community is embarrassed. i think the white house is embarrassed. even though i believe this programs unconstitutional. the intelligence committee believes it will help them stop terrorist attacks and they believe he interfered with that. they need to go after him and i think they will. hes in a country where we have an extradition treaty. it will be relatively easy to arrest him and get him here and indict him. what happens after that is up to a jury, wh...

Can ask for a one for a specific person or place with the items. this is a general warning. this is what we objected to and what our founding fathers talked about. we can go from house to house looking for things or now from computer to computer without specifying who youre targeting. >> we have an expectation of privacy. someone will say that there is no legal right to privacy but in a democracy you have an expectation of privacy that government will stay out of your bedroom. they will stay out...

Watched and recorded. the storage capability increases every year consistently by orders of magnitude to where it is getting to the point where you dont have to have done anything wrong you have to eventually fall under suspicion. >> it is causing debate about the governments secret surveillance program. they defend the program as an effective tool in preventing terrorist attacks. >> we face a very real asem metric threat in international terrorism. our greatest line of defense against that is i...

Involved. far example, meta data thats used is just raw phone numbers, it is just kept for a period of time. its only used if there is some question about a phone number that needs to be matched up against that database. i think theres perhaps a misunderstanding out there around the country that this is -- this -- youre getting information about peoples calls and that sort of thing which just isnt the case. but i do believe that there are a lot of our libertarian folks around the country who, an...

Joining me now, amy walter, national editor of the cook political report, congressman tom davis and former congress robert weather conditions ler, republican and democrat, respectively. i want to start out by doing a little then and now with the president. and the first is the president talking about the bush administration. and then second is the president just this past friday. take a listen. >> this administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the secur...

Misleading the american public. i think it is appalling. neither one of them should be to their opinion. i dont have the possibility of stopping ambassador rice. miss nuland we are going to look at. she was hillary clintons spokesman who says she had nothing to do with the talking points, even though her spokesman was rewriting them all night long to get out any reference to terrorism. i have no idea why they had this massive misdirection campaign when everybody thought it was a terrorist attack...