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It's so sad that this woman and her ilk are either completely lying about what this program does or they completely misunderstands what they're supporting. They now admit the NSA shares this (an d other) info with other agencies (while explicitly telling them to lie about where they got the info, if it ever comes out they have it in the first place), they also admit they keep all data including content of email and texts, and probably even phone calls indefinitely and do not require a warrant to use this information for investigation, and when they DO think they need one they go to FISA and get a rubber stamp one, never once being denied a warrant when they ask.
it came out recently that every email and text may be collected as the rules allow collection even if the 'data' they contain is exclusionary data, as in not what they're looking for (today).
The programs HAVE been abused. What needs to happen is an agent like Snowden needs to use his authority to collect the content of congress' and the white house's emails and texts and make them public in total, they have now fu*ked any claim of 'secrecy' or 'national security' because they know of this program and so they know any thing they write electronically is NOT secret and THEY just made it public by emailing it. Sadly, after Snowden's treatment, I doubt anyone else is going to be willing to give up their life and safety to force this issue.
I wish I could send Snowden $5 to thank him for reminding the public about these programs and publicly outing the lies they continue to spout while making the 'truth' a national secret that can't be disussed without committing 'treason'.
I won't be voting for a single incumbent.

This is amazing. Harmon, the NSA apologist in the video above, expresses her disgust for being wiretapped under the Bush Administration in this video. Partisan politics. Around the five minute mark:

http://youtu.be/m_CUvZcv-Sw?t=4m51s

And then there is this that say all data is collected and shared between agencies.