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Institutional norms stop people from doing. what's your response to that argument? >> i have two responses to that argument. if the nsa were free of serious abuse, it would be the first time in history that a massive strong potent surveillance system was created in the dark with no checks and human beings didn't abuse it. the history of the united states should lead anyone to realize that building a massive surveillance state will lead to abu abuse. that was the lessen of the church committee, for decades the united states government abused surveillance because nobody was looking over their sh...

Secondly, as secret as the nsa is, we know there's serious abuse, in 2011, there was an 86-page ruling from the fisa court saying what the nsa was doing, systematically violated the constitution and the law. ron whiting just this week got james clapper to admit there are numerous violations of the law that the nsa is committing and they try to slough it off and say it's not intentional. it's much more serious than the government is letting on. the problem is, it's all done in secret, the lesson of the united states historically, over the last century, is that if you build the surveillance syst...