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Intends to stay in the city. today, people there held a small rally supporting him as his ties overseas tighten. some question if snowden will defect. here is cnn's brian todd. >> reporter: top u officials are now openly worried, will edward snowden defect? does he have a relationship with a foreign government and is there more to this story? >> clearly, there is. we are going to make sure there is a thorough scrub of what his china connections are. >> reporter: a former senior nsa official and a former cia officer told me the chinese government has likely at least made contact with edward sno...

Past from what they knew about them. i don't think anybody knew publicly how widespread the data collection is. but how is prism, how are prism and blarney different? that's a separate program. >> well first on the database program, you're right, this isn't new. this is "u.s.a. today" article from may 2006. i remember i was on capitol hill when this came out. the headline is, nsa has massive database of americans' phone calls. this story has been around eight years and it's been carefully overseen by the courts and by congress. as for the internet programs, there you need a particularized warr...

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Programs that have been revealed in the last couple of weeks involving the mass collection of u.s. phone records and this program to look at internet programs overseas, both of them were enacted after james comey left the justice department as deputy attorney general. nonetheless, he was a strong supporter of the patriot act, the law that was passed in the days after 9/11, and it's one of the authorities in the patriot act that is in a sense the seeds of the phone program, although as i say, it wasn't started when he was at main justice. he has gotten bipartisan support. it seems very likely h...