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Signed for reasons we will tell you about in a second. >> where does the data come from? e-mail traffic? facebook postings? telephone calls? travel itineraries? >> i don't know presizely. nsa is not saying. the speculation is just about any of that and perhaps even more. >> drake says americans should be concerned about letting the government go too far in the tame of security. >> the only way for perfect security is perfect surveillance. >> that is george kaufman. that is what that would look like. >> drake is not alone in feeling that way. >> whatever you did electronically they could captur...

Security number, too, for that matter. but they're collecting all your e-mail, your web browsing, released your phone call data records which tells them who you've called and when. and when you build up a record like that over time, they can piece together who your associates are. and the new stuff is even more revealing and frightening because they're tapping into all the social media companies, google and yahoo! and microsoft and so forth. that gives them even a deeper personal picture of your whole life. jon: but people like walter pincus in "the washington post" argue americans are always ...

Bundling and seizing phone records. not listening in but who you call, when you call them and how many times you call them. if you don't know about the e-mails and that's the crucial thing here, cameron, you are saying, we're not going to know because that testimony will be private. >> we do know that such things such as prism and programs give different analysts an opportunity to look that kind of stuff. if it is synthesized with data records it can reveal information. they are suing the obama administration to purge it off from its records. rand paul, senator from kentucky is trying to organ...

And that if 10 million people sign on, maybe, quote: something will change in washington. the kentucky republican also says he hopes the case eventually reaches the supreme court. carl cameron with his story from d.c. carl? >> thanks, shep. rand paul is a g.o.p. conservative and tea party favorite also positioning for a 2016 presidential run. he delivered a commencement address in pennsylvania today. the class action lawsuit against what paul calls the obama administration's big government intrusion makes a great political organizing tool over the next four years. outrage over the national sec...

That's george orwell, that's 1984. that's what that would look like. >> drake is not alone in feeling that way. >> whatever you did electronically, they could capture. >> bill benny worked at the nsa nearly four decades, starting as a data analyst in the days before desktop computers. after 9/11, the nsa began a warrantless surveillance program approved by president bush. >> it started with the telecoms providing billing data records of people in the united states calling people in the united states. my estimate is that they were collecting 3 billion a day. >> 3 billion phone records? >> 3 bil...