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Monitor conversations. members of congress are rutonely briefed. another prominent republican, senator john mccain, says the surveillance can definitely help prevent terrorist attacks. >> perhaps there has been some overreach, but to somehow think that because we are having phone calls recorded as far as their length and who they were talking to -- i don't think that that is necessarily wrong if they want to go further and they have to go to this court. >> reporter: president obama has said the surveillance program strikes the right balance between security and privacy and is only a modest enc...

Libya to do all of that intelligence work, colonel? or are we sending drones, are we sending spies to gather information ourselves? >> well, we do. we have drones in the air. we can listen to telephone conversations, monitor conversations, and all that. but in the end it's really important that the only thing we're going to get that's really useful is human intelligence. that requires people on the ground, which we have there and we're going to send more of, but it also requires that these people on the ground have contacts inside libya and we don't have that quality of information, human info...