towards the end of the bush administration about the warrantless surveillance aspects of its intelligence collection programs that all of the spread indications by which the government can collect surveillance on american citizen s has gotten so enormously broad common sense restrictions embodied in these laws do not appear to jive with the actions we have seen. >> this brings me to this question. this is a line from the "washington post" a story i want to know. firsthand experience in these systems and horror at their capabilities is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide power point slides about prison to the "washington post" in order to expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy. i they quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type, the officer said.