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There's no excuse for it happening. when you start suspending civil liberties for the -- and abuse, too, it's going to get abused. the federal government abuses everything. you have people there that don't know what the hell they're doing and have no respect for the constitution and they abuse it. if you empower them, they're going to abuse it. >> bob, we took a lot of heat for standing by the fourth amendment for saying that the nsa was violating people's privacy rights. they denied it. james clapper in front of a senate panel denied doing it. now we know they did it thousands of times per ye...

Has more from washington. >> the may 2012 internal nsa audit shows thousands of privacy violations in one year alone. in some cases the nsa was monitoring the phone records of residents of washington, d.c. whose area code is similar to that of egypt. nsa compliance director said the violations were not willful or malicious and represented a, quote, miniscule percentage of ofth sa surveillance activity during a rare conference call by the super secret spy agency. nsa whistle-blower edward snowden provided the documents months ago. nancy pelosi called the revelations extremely disturbing. democr...