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Tracking of all of this we find out that somebody goes to a porn sight. some married man or something. then the government decides they're going to use that against him because some future richard nixon decides that he doesn't like somebody and he's going to embarrass him publicly. that's the kind of thing that the personal infringement, embarrassment, vendetta i think we need to figure out how to prevent. i'm less worried about just the very fact the government looks at who's talking to whom. i think we need to do that to stop terrorism. we need strong safeguards so there cannot be future abu...

We need strong safeguards so there can not be future abuses of power by a government that decides to target people and use potentially embarrassing nfr ii information we should never. >> god forbid there was some kind of attack, that this metadata, had we analyzed it properly, could have prevented. that's what we're all seeking to stop, no? >> well, there's no evidence that these sorts of metadata collection programs actually work in the terrorism context. we've been collecting this information for over a decade now in the post-9/11 world. neither the past administration or this one has been a...

Embarrassment, vendetta i think we need to figure out how to prevent. i'm less worried about just the very fact the government looks at who's talking to whom. i think we need to do that to stop terrorism. we need strong safeguards so there cannot be future abuses of power by a government that decides to target people and use potentially embarrassing information we should never. >> god forbid there was some kind of attack, that this metadata, had we analyzed it properly, could have prevented. that's what we're all seeking to stop, no? >> well, there's no evidence that these sorts of metadata co...