Around 6:12 a.m. on Dec. 23, the Beltrami County dispatch center received a call of a residential fire in the 9000 block of Pony Lake Road NW in Liberty Township. Initial reports indicated that two children in the residence were unaccounted for and were possibly trapped in an upstairs bedroom.
names of the callers. the program was approved by the secret foreign intelligence surveillance corps located inside the federal courthouse in washington. counterterrorism experts told us this surveillance is on going and involves most major telephone companies, not just verizon. some lawmakers such as wisconsin republican james sensenbrenner who wrote many of the legal rules covering such data collection criticized the scope of this surveillance. it s a huge overreach and it s an abuse of the powers that have been given to the government. reporter: but a majority of republicans and democrats did not object. senate majority leader harry reid. right now i think everyone should just calm down and understand this isn t anything that is brand new. it s been going on for some seven years. reporter: attorney general eric holder, a key player in decisions about seeking phone-tracking authority, won praise from south carolina republican lindsey graham. i m a verizon customer