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of these, the issue in where you house this data. one of the reasons it was in one spot because it allows you to make a connection. if each of the phone companies make it themselves, you can t make the connections anymore. we asked you about this and got one from a fellow appropriately named stephen covert, and he said, why hasn t the congress done anything before this? they knew about the improprieties long ago, why haven t they done anything? stephen, i think they are scared and cowardly. they are worried they will be called soft on terrorism, that they will be said to be unpatriotic. if they do anything that goes toward the civil liberties end of the scale,ive seen less oversight on capitol hill as a result, and what you see in general, even as we approach a reauthorization of the patriot act is the sense that, yeah, we
can take some steps but don t want to go so far as to open ourselves to president obama saying, hey, a bomb went off and it was because of the congress that i couldn t do what i needed to do to protect americans. and i think that s a real risk for congress. now, i think they ll have to take some steps and you ll get pat leahy who did the patriot act before, they will say in collection of this data, we have to impose some limits as to government because you want to make sure that people in power don t abuse it proactively. so far, the fact is, to get back to stephen s question, nobody is abusing it. there s no evidence somebody is abusing it. that s the correct answer. what improprieties? this program threatens no one unless it s abused. and to date not a single victim has been identified, not a single abuse of the metadata has been identified that harmed anyone in any way.