Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130613:01:45:00
>> so in operation shamrock, what we saw was the nsa turning its foreign intelligence operations internally on american communications? >> exactly, yeah. operation shamrock was getting access to all the communications coming into, going out of and going through the united states. >> there were very few rules back then. very few laws, regulations that dealt with what nsa or any intelligence agency could collect back then. the capabilities were there. the restraints weren't there. the temptation is to do it. >> the committee believes that serious legal and constitutional questions are raised by ...