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CNN The Situation Room August 8, 2013 22:06:00

"the new york times" story, i think what you've got to remember -- and the president has talked about this, the white house and the director of national intelligence -- the rules that govern the administration, the executive branch and intelligence community's ability to do this program, the rules that sort of set forth kind of what you can look at and when and how are reviewed by this secret court, the foreign intelligence surveillance court, even when there is not a specific warrant that may be required. you know, people go to great pains to make the point that if you're targeting an american citizen, you need a warrant for that, and if you inadvertently collect an american's communications that are not relevant, they've got to be erased. there are what's called minimization procedures to protect american communications. so, wolf, there's a lot of infrastructure and rules and procedures around this. i will tell you, the nsa for years has been really very disciplined about not wanting to

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