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Out. and lawsuits are threatening including the aclu challenging the constitution nalt of the phone program. suspected leaker edward snowden said he wants that debate. >> the public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong. and i'm willing to go on the record to defend the authenticity of them and say i didn't change these. i didn't modify the story. this is the truth. this is what's happening. you should decide whether we need to be doing this. >> reporter: while a law enforcement official says there's no time frame for when charges will be filed, legal experts sa...

And lawsuits are threatening, including the aclu challenging the constitutionality of the phone program. suspected leaker edward snowden says he wants that debate. >> the public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong and i'm willing to go on the record to defend the authenticity of them and say i didn't change these. i didn't modify the story. this is the truth. this is what's happening. you should decide whether we need to be doing this. >> reporter: while a law enforcement official says there's no time frame for when charges will be filed legal experts the most...

Because it was leaked last week. on the phone program. looking at that leaked document, and knowing what you know, as a senator with the kind of access that you do, to what kinds of rulings these are, are you at all sympathetic to the argument from the other side that the rulings, themselves, showing you what the law is might, itself, compromise the effectiveness of those programs? >> well, i'm not at all sympathetic. especially now. it's widely acknowledged by the white house that that was an accurate document. therefore, the public now knows that our government is picking up all this informa...

And that's what should change. the standards of the law should be public. >> we have seen one of the previously secret fisa court rulings on one of these programs because it was leaked last week. on the phone program. looking at that leaked document, and knowing what you know, as a senator with the kind of access that you do, to what kinds of rulings these are, are you at all sympathetic to the argument from the other side that the rulings, themselves, showing you what the law is might, itself, compromise the effectiveness of those programs? >> well, i'm not at all sympathetic. especially now....

That's been controversial about fisa from the beginning. i guess you could say that whenever the police seek a search warrant when someone is under investigation, that's ex parte, too. the police don't say, we're thinking about searching your house, do you want to come down to the court and argue before the judge about whether we get a warrant. so a lot of those things are ex parte as well. going back to the bite you played where he said he has the authority to wiretap anyone in the u.s. now granted, he probably knows a lot more about this classified program than any of us does, but at the sam...