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I mean, they're going to say, look, this is a -- one of the administration's reaction is, who leaked this stuff? we're going to go over whoever leaked the fact that these programs exist. so they have very much sort of steaked out this is about national security and i have to say this is not an issue that parces as easily along the party lines even of the irs or benghazi or any of those sort of existing political problems the president has. because what you have here is kind of an alliance of progressives who are disappointed with the president because they think he's looking an awful lot like ...

Was collecting americans' phone records from verizon was quick. public privacy advocates are already taking a stand online. >> can you hear me now? >> yes, i can. >> reporter: they say the administration has now lost all credibility. and the letter to attorney general eric holder from the author of the patriot act, representative jim sensebrenner who says he's disturbed by what appears to be an overbroad interpretation of the fact. "the huffington post" ran a picture of president obama of himself morphing into president bush. >> this program was used to stop a program, excuse me, stop a terror...

Representative sensenbrenner says if section 218 is being as the guardian reported yesterday to allow local, domestic and internal telephone logs to be scans from verizon, that's never what patriot act intended. the interpretation of that and the foreign intelligence surveillance act makes judges appear to rubber stamp. eliminates the requirement that data meaningfully connected to terrorism investigations and is a general fishing expedition that justice antonin scalia so eloquently denounced in his dissenting opinion on monday. he said the framers of the fourth amendment would be appalled to ...