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Policy and a particular investigation. >> congressman welsh, you talk a lot about oversight. but what do you think congress should do legislatively to address some of the ongoing concerns that we're seeing with the overwhelming oversight or overwhelming issues with the prism program and in essay, the surveillance more generally? is it the repeal of the patriot act or fisa steps? what do you suggest? >> i suggest the mercury approach to tighten up that 'approach in the patriot act but i think the prospect's success are limited. in fact, i think this is a role that is much more suited to us is o...

It seems to be more efficient in targeting terrorists not every american and all of their correspondence. >> well, it would be wonderful if we knew all the terrorists before they committed a terror act. the fact is, in this environment, especially people like the tsarnaev brothers in boston. have you to be on the lookout for these lone wolf people making those overseas calls. by the way, again, under the prism program, it's only people overseas who are targeted, not american citizens. >> hang on a second. that's yahoo, microsoft. that's google. >> yeah, they're capturing communications coming ...

The points you made in the talking point i agree with look, the constitution protects content of communication. it doesn't protect the fact of communication and that database is keeping simply a collect of telephone numbers for some period of time so the retrospectively if the government says we have a bad call made from a bad guy abroad into the united states, let's go check and see what kind of connections there are with that phone number. >> bill: i think most people would be convinced by that argument. >> right. now prism. >> bill: email thing, huh-uh. >> hold on a second. prism. the prism...

Aforemention and particularly describing the place to be searched and the person or things to be seized, unquote. you can't just seize everything and say you are doing so to try to route out terrorism. you have to have probable cause to violate the privacy of an american. look, you know me. you know i'm a very tough guy on national security. i support the patriot act. i support drone warfare. i support guantanamo bay. but this is dangerous. the irs scandal proves the federal government can and has abused its power for political reasons. simply can't have american authority spying on the folks....

Aforemention and particularly describing the place to be searched and the person or things to be seized, unquote. you can't just seize everything and say you are doing so to try to route out terrorism. you have to have probable cause to violate the privacy of an american. look, you know me. you know i'm a very tough guy on national security. i support the patriot act. i support drone warfare. i support guantanamo bay. but this is dangerous. the irs scandal proves the federal government can and has abused its power for political reasons. simply can't have american authority spying on the folks....