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Dick durbin to lindsey graham, they seem to have a much better recollection of what went on. this idea that the commander in chief of this country code with broad brushes talk about certain nations and thus cast a shadow over the millions of americans who are from those communities and that you could even say in your testimony that norwegians were preference by him because they are so hardworking -- >> this is a very fluid and fast-moving situation. since i've come into the studio we've had some comments from senator lindsey graham, he said something very significant. he said he thinks somethi...

Much more complicated that computers could do. >> what amazes me when i hear it and as the revelations keep happening to me incompetence is more frightening. now they are collecting e-mails. last year we were trying to watch egypt country code 20 and we typed in code 202 and watched washington, d.c. and didn't realize it. the only thing worse is being competent. how is the nsa defending this? >> they say none of this was intentional. that is always the defense that they have. they say the volume of data that they are collecting, millions and millions of e-mails and internet traffic that goes t...

Days after president obama vowed to protect your privacy rights and make national security surveillance more transparent, there's a new report that is raising fresh concerns. documents leaked by edward snowden and published in the "washington post" show the agency has overstepped its authority thousands of times. often, the unauthorized harvesting of phone calls and e-mails has been accidental, like confusing the area code for washington, d.c., with the area code for a country, a country code in this specific case, for egypt. our white house correspondent, dan lothian, reports. >> reporter: re...

They say. here's the quote we're a human run agency with a number of regulatory regimes so at times we find ourselves on the wrong side of the line. one time, for example, they thought they were tracking egypt which is a 2-0 country code. they were tracking washington at 202 so they looked at a whole bunch of 202 numbers, american numbers. their intention could still have been in the right way but their execution could have ended up violating. >>tucker: even if these were honest mistakes and presumably most of them were, there is still deception around them. in june we were told by this admini...

Area code was mistaken to the country code for egypt. in 2012 more than 2700 incidence of unauthorized collection as well as distribution of what is normally legally protected communications. the article's reporter saying there were a multitude of mistakes made. >> searching on the wrong names or searching on u.s. persons improperly or searching on people who they have no reasonable suspicion or length to terrorist groups. >> in a statement the nsa said it tries to identify problems and in part the statement reads we take each report seriously investigate the matter, address the issue, constan...