overreach back in 2000, and as a libertarian, he's not exactly in favor of the government interfering in our lives anyway. congressman bar joins me now, thanks for coming in. >> i wish it were a more pleasant topic, but it's good to be here. >> let's start with that, you said, i told you so, which says to me you're not really surprised by these revelations. >> not at all. even before the usa patriot act, there were signs we saw in a congress, at least a number of saw that the government was moving far too fast and far too quietly and under the table in the direction of massive databasing of americans' communications. it accelerated greatly after 9/11 with the patriot act and foreign intelligence surveillance act expansions, and voila, now we have absolute data mining, dragnet data mining, by the government. it's very troubling. >> the president said, though, americans aren't being targeted, it's foreigners overseas.
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