Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140710:00:39:00
>> well, so there are two issues. one is that before the 2008 fisa law that was passed by a bipartisan congress. what that law mostly did was increase the government surveillance powers by legalizing what had been the controversial bush cheney eavesdropping program. one of the protections it provided was it said any time you want to target americans, whether they're on the u.s. soil or not, you need a fisa warrant. prior to that law in mid-2008. the nsa believed they could sur veil americans outside of u.s. soil simply by getting a certification of the attorney general. it's possible prior to ...
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