Judgment that i would not be responsibly carrying out my oversight powers if i did not press intelligence issues to clarify what the nsa director said repeatedly about the data collection. So i decided that it was necessary to put the question to the director of National Intelligence and i have my staff send the actual questions a day in advance so that the director would be prepared to answer. The director said the answer is no, the nsa does not knowingly collect it on millions of americans. After the hearing, had my staff called the Directors Office on this matter and urge them to correct the record. Accordingly, the office decided to let this inaccurate statement stand. My office made it clear in my staff said clearly that this was wrong and unacceptable to leave the American People misled and we continue to warn the public about the problem of surveillance law over the following weeks with the june disclosures. Now, given after those disclosures, there has been an effort by officia
Were still sort of young into this, but, you know, so far, were not seeing a lot of improvement in Republican Party numbers as of late july. We havent seen that quite yet. And so were sort of watching to see, do those problems just sort of Carry Forward . Now, one thing i have to say is that usually the dynamics of one election dont really Carry Forward into the next. Usually its about something different. But we have had times when its repeated and, you know, you could almost look at 2006, which was a great democratic year, and 2008, which was a great democratic year. They flowed into one another. But thats really, really, really unusual. I think you probably have to go back, with 32, 34, 36, to find another time where the flow just sort of continued on from one election to the next, but obviously it could happen. But the other one is that this is a traditional second term, Midterm Election. You know, we know historically that bad things typically happen to presidencies in their secon
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