or somewhere like that they want to see if it is having any communications with people inside the united states? and they re limiting their searches to things like that. i think we have to learn a lot more before we really go nuts on this. martha: when you look back, congress reinitiated the patriot act in 2011. it is good from 2011 to 2015, during that period. certainly this is allowed under the surveillance laws. the big issue here is the broadness of it. that it is such a large scope. in these rules when you read them, and you read the patriot act, it details when you re going after a specific terrorist, a specific group, you re allowed to get this sort of information. here once again the charges that it is overbroad such as we saw in ap. that is exactly what it was in ap because they didn t limit it. here looks like the same thing just on steroids. it is just this enormous number of records they have gone through. but you do point out the patriot act made the government go to a j