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>> look, the whole point of my concern before i was president, because some people say, well, obama was this raving liberal before. now he's dick cheney. dick cheney sometimes says, yeah, he took it all lock, stock and barrel. my concern has always been not that we shouldn't do intelligence gathering to prevent terrorism. but rather are we setting up a system of checks and balances? so on this telephone program you've got a federal court with independent federal judges overseeing the entire program and you've got congress overseeing the program not just the intelligence committee, not just the...

It allows the nsa and the fbi to tap directly into some of the computer servers of some of the biggest internet service providers. and then government analysts can monitor that traffic to some extent in real-time, to some extent to go back and look for. the difference is, this program -- one person says it's like standing in the post office and watching out for specific envelopes that go by from parts of the world or people that are deemed to be troublemakers. and it's this program we're told aimed primarily at communications that have an overseas connection. they start overseas and come here ...

Telephone program is all looking at past records of phone calls. >> pete, there's been a range of reaction in washington today, including a lot of lack of surprise, i guess i would put it as. harry reid, senate leader, said everyone should just calm down and understand that this isn't anything brand-new. it's gone on for some seven years. he wasn't surprised about it. and other high-ranking senators indicated they were not surprised about it. they have known about it for a while. what is your sense about how the government is reacting to the leak? how shocked are they that this has gotten out ...

Raving liberal before and now he's dick cheney. dick cheney says yeah, he took it all lock, stock and barrel. my concern has always been not that we shouldn't do intelligence gathering to prevent terrorism, but rather are we setting up a systems of checks and balances. so on this telephone program, you've got a federal court with independent federal judges overseeing the entire program and you've got congress overseeing the program. >> after several closed door briefings today on capitol hill, the man who runs the nsa answered congressional questions during a public hearing. >> the documents t...

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