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Debate about all of these measures, and so there was a security apparatus that was put in place that got beyond the debate of the american public and congress failed to really keep that debate going. >> well, i was there, and we did have a debate once it was disclosed by the bush administration in its first term that the authority used for the program was the president's commander in chief authority and it didn't go through congress and it didn't comply with the foreign intelligence surveillance act. congress remanded fisa in 2008 and we had a debate. i wish more people had listened in -- >> s...