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Program does, not the fourth amendment. i've seen this program operating in realtime, when i was a member of this privacy board. and i saw the careful scrutiny that each person involved in the terrorist surveillance program, when they approached the line of encroaching on the fourth amendment rights of american citizens, they pulled back to the point where there were so many checks and balances within that agency, where i was watching the program, i sometimes wondered whether we were missing evil terrorists because of concern about privacy and civil liberties. >> here's my problem with this, i...

Program does, not the fourth amendment. i've seen this program operating in realtime, when i was a member of this privacy board. and i saw the careful scrutiny that each person involved in the terrorist surveillance program, when they approached the line of encroaching on the fourth amendment rights of american citizens, they pulled back to the point where there were so many checks and balances within that agency, where i was watching the program, i sometimes wondered whether we were missing evil terrorists because of concern about privacy and civil liberties. >> here's my problem with this, i...

That's supposed to identify foreign content with 51% accuracy is being focused on foreigners for legal troubles there as well. >> jane, you saw that huffington post picture of the president supposedly being morphed from george w. bush to george w. obama. he is getting criticism from the left and right. were you reassured with what you heard sf. >> i certainly was. i spent many years in congress focused on these issues. some things were done wrong, wolf. for example, i was ranking member on the house intelligence committee from 2003 to 2007. from 2003 to 2005, i was briefed on something called ...

That there is going to be a margin of risk that we're going to have to live with now. >> so, now, describe what it would mean to push that hand down. you ran the national security agency, the super secret spy agency with many people believe is the largest budget that has the ability to do, it does all the technical, technological data gathering. could you eavesdrop on, you know, conversations at a much grander scale than you're doing? >> you know, what technology is available now, of course, you can be more invasive. truth in advertising here, fareed. i installed the terrorist surveillance pro...

Security agency, this super secret spy agency with many people believe is the largest budget, that has the ability to do -- it does all of the technical, technological data gathering. could you eavesdrop on conversations on a much grander scale than you are doing? >> you know, technology available now, of course you could be more invasive. and truth in advertising here, fareed, i was the one that installed the terrorist surveillance program that caused so much controversy during the bush administration. >> which is about eavesdropping on phone conversation. >> international calls, one may be i...