the conversations.inte congressman, you know and younge came out strongly on this topic that these violations were not reported to ther en foreign intelligence committee. h largely kept in the dark,gn the intelligence court kept in the dark and the presidentare. isn t aware and so when you have the fourth amendment at her stake here and by reference to h the first amendment we have an obligation and it appears the nsa has gone rogue. we have to insist that they be reined in to protect the privacy of americans and stop the intrusion of e-mails ands an phone calls and go back to having a country that works on o the fourth amendment and protect against unreasonableo an search and seizure and get a warrant. we won t get the whole hey
it was all available and nothing bothers me. quite frankly it shows that it works. anything in that report and anything in the reports thatre came to light at the and of the week that bother you? there is a lot that bathersne me. i share congressman cane s report for the brave and dedicated men and women who do our national security work. the problem, and there is a real problem is with the system. it is i a black box the foreign intelligence court is a see yet tribunal with secret opinions and secret law and a lot of it completely unavailable to members even of the foreign intelligence committee. i believe there needs to be changes in the fisa court. it is so it can better uncover and scrutinize and oversee potential abuses. i would establish a special advocate who would be responsible in affect for
number of calls being put into a database on where in theamou amount of work the nsa is actually doing. i think the number one question, the only question here is there evidence that the government is abusing its power to spy on americans? la despite all of the conversations, we don t have any evidence of that. do you believe that? john, anytime our privacy is at stake, americans have to take that seriously.y. some changes do need to be made. 24r needs to bead an advocate for privacy.inte having served on the committee for years there needs to be more resources so the independent branches of government including the courts can police this thing. km as kimberly was just saying, 80% of the violations were technical in nature or involve type graphical errors.re 100% were inadd veer taint. the fact that they ared self-reporting and wantgi to comply should give some comfort. there is not a vast conspiracyte where theynt are lining in on
is at stake that is important. but you don t want to throwhe b the baby out with the bath water. having been on the committee there were not enough resources to independently oversee this. having the capacity to do that is important and making surethe the court can doco that is importantjo and whether you call them an advocate is not more beurocracy, but it is standing in the rights of the americans m to make sure the appropriateate balance is struck. i like to say this and i will say it again.ag i voted against the patriot rea act because i read it. most members of congress did not.they they had 12 hours of hearings and then at the end they swapped the bill out. they had the draw cone yen power to reach into people s lives.have we have let the nsa redefine who we arere as americans and that is not acceptable. there is an interesting split in the debatn:e here. on one side you have no big deal and you have people like congressman i don t think it is not no cn big deal.
would, it would shutdown thement government because the resolution wouldn t pass. it might lead some people to wonder if you are trying toha have it both ways while the house has to have it one way. i think what would happen is if the house voted to debama fund obamacare it would comee to to the senate.e the senate would approve obamacare funding.fund it would go to conference committee, and then i think a a compromise would be achieved. it is only achieved if thehiev house stands up, uses and asserts their belief that obamacare is a bad law andwill will hurt people, and if theyd p stand up and are strong, then i think the i strength of that learns would be used to achieve a compromise.but, if we announce defeat in advance as some had, it destroys the effort we are trying to do.tive there are many conservatives, like myself, standing up and saying obamacare will be acoun disaster for the country. as i travel around kentucky and around the country peoplemeu come up to me and say stand