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the president meant, one. the white house response to this. michelle kosinski, the wasshite house is calling this an irresponsible lapse? reporter: calling it that for days. without naming names they mentioned things like campaign tactics and a desire to be in the oval office. so i think it s pretty clear who they re referring to on that one. the white house still will not spell out whether or not americans are less safe now because these programs expire. they refer us to intelligence officials for that. clearly, they don t want to go so far as to say there s a big change in our national security stance but what they have been saying is as you mentioned, an unnecessary risk. they also, still won t give concrete examples how any of these programs not just the bulk data. other things like roving wiretaps have worked in the past saying national security concerns prevent them from giving away those details but what they said today is that
that was joe johns reporting. the president and first lady of the united states also say they are grieving the loss of beau biden. in less than 24 hours, the controversial u.s. patriot act is set to expire. if that happens, the national security agency will end the government s bulk telephone collection program, unless there is a quick resolution. cnn correspondent has the story. reporter: on capitol hill, time is almost up in a scramble in the senate is about to be on. we shouldn t surrender the tools that keep us safe. reporter: unless the senate acts tonight, key provisions will expire. including one under which the bulk phone data program operates. it collects numbers dialed and how long calls lasted but does not capture the contents of conversation and other surveillance provisions set to expire, one allowing the government to seek a court order on an individual for business records, roving wiretaps for
battling terror. roving wiretaps is a provision where the government has said, well, a lot of these terrorists will easily dispose of different communication devices, we need the ability to have roving wiretaps to continuously surveil and monitor these individuals. what s interesting here is the issue finds you ve got senator rand paul aclu new york times editorials on the same page. they all want the act to expire. in term of the new york times, they write, it has become clear that the intelligence agencies were interpreting the patriot act in ways that was not what officials authorized. do you think it s gone beyond the authors of congress? yes, several of the authors of the patriot act made that point. that the government has overstepped its bounds and interpreted several of these provisions in too broad a fashion. which has allowed average americans to be surveilled.
the problem, officials say, is that isis recruitment efforts are increasingly difficult to detect because they are essentially hiding behind encrypted communication. the fbi director has repeatedly warned police chiefs nationwide to be hypervigilant since police may get no warning prior to an attack. there are on encrypted platforms, so it is an incredibly difficult task that we are enlisting all of our state and local and federal partners in and we are working on it every single day but i can t stand here with any high confidence when i confront a world that is increasingly dark to me and tell you i got it all covered. reporter: just as official this week were trying to gain support for two surveillance tools. the first is the ability to monitor individuals with no ties to known terror groups. the second, roving wiretaps, tracking multiple phones tied to a single person and both are set to expire on june 1st and the
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