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On all of us by presidential order needed to get its periodic legal rubber stamp from the justice department and john ashcroft was wicked sick. in the hospital. he appointed big tall james comey to be the attorney general instead. it would be comy who was going to have to sign off on it. the white house tried to go to james comey to get him to sign off on it and he wouldn't and then tried to go around him and have sick john ashcroft authorize it and he raced them to john ashcroft's hospital room and sat by his bed and told the fbi agents not to let anybody in or out and wouldn't let it happen....

There's the congress that gave the administration this power. there's the administration which exercised all of that power and more and there's the court, the secret court that signed off on this incredibly broad order that allows the government to sweep up information about everybody. every phone call you make. every -- how long is that phone call? who are you calling? maybe even the location information associated with the phone call. that's a lot of data. it's not just about suspected terrorists, it's about everybody. >> let me ask you about a statement that's come out tonight from an unnam...

Version of the prism story also in things with "washington post" including their own chunk of the actual slides from the secret powerpoint presentation. nbc news reporting tonight that us intelligence officials are reeling tonight after all of these leaks. piercing the most sensitive secrets in the counter terror data collection operation. and this all follows the nbc report last night on this, the internal u.s. government tally and a kind of spreadsheet on a program on drone strikes in pakistan. richard engel reporting last night on "nbc nightly news" and on this show that over the year and a...

2007 apparently running ever since in which the nsa and fbi tap directly into the central servers of nine top internet companies grabbing en masse not just e-mails, information about when you log-on or off, documents, videos, audios, chats, skype chat, photos. it is not for people suspected of crimes, it is, at least it seems, for all of us, everything that goes through microsoft, yahoo! google, aol, skype, google and paltalc, according to classified documents by "the "washington post"," dropbox is soon to be coming to this program. this day calls you.

To have to sign off on it. the white house tried to go to james comey to get him to sign off on it and he wouldn't and then tried to go around him and have sick john ashcroft authorize it and he raced them to john ashcroft's hospital room and sat by his bed and told the fbi agents not to let anybody in or out and wouldn't let it happen. that was what that whole drama was about, whether the bush administration spying on us was being done in a legal way. the resolution of that drama ultimately the justice department wouldn't sign off on the program as it was. a big drama. everybody threatened to...