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## Video: NSA's Phone Record Seizures

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_Published 2013-06-07. After the records of NSA seizing phone data came out Wednesday, President Obama declassified the seizures and condemned the leaks._


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## Transcript

This morning President Obama is waking up in California, as a political firestorm over the government's collection of phone and internet data intensifies. The bottom line is that the United States government now has phone records and other records Of tens and tens, and tens of millions of Americans who have nothing, absolutely nothing to do with terrorism. The political fall out after news that the NSA was collecting American's phone records from Verizon was quick. Public outrage over privacy rights already taking. Form online. Can you hear me now? Yes we can. Can you hear me now? Yes we can. Your call goes through.

Can you hear me now? Yes we can. A stinging editorial in The New York Times proclaims President Obama's Dragnet and says the administration has now lost all credibility and a letter to attorney general Eric Holder from the author of The Patriot Act, representative Jim Sensenbrenner. Right. He's exctremely disturbed by what appears to be an over broad interpretation of the act. Even the President's liberal base piled on. The Huffington Post ran a photo on its cover page showing Obama morphing into George W Bush. But the program has its defenders. This program was used to stop a program excuse me stop a terrorist attack in the United States we know that.

The White House says these types of orders include data not phone calls and have been a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats but some law makers want more answers and attorney general holder already under pressure for snooping on reporters is on the hot seat again. Could you assure to us, that, no firms inside the Capitol were monitored, members of congress. With all due respect senator, I don't think this is an appropriate setting for need to discuss, that issue. Dan Lothian CNN Washington.

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