about spy allegations, including how chancellor angela merkel, her cell phone was allegedly monitored. images from the national mall where protesters are rallying against the patriot act and the nsa and peter doocy is in washington as well. >> reporter: it is all about privacy today at that rally. partisan politics are not much of a consideration among the hundreds of democrats, republicans, independents and libertarians gathered outside the u.s. capitol now, they mafd from uni -- marched chanting all the way that masked surveillance must go. the crowd gets fired up whenever they mention nsa wire taps and most common sign features nsa leaker edward snowden's face with a message saying thank you to him. snowden passed on a written message for the rally that was read a few minutes ago.