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Government Task Force Recommends NSA Stop Collecting Phone Records

January 23, 2014

Jane Harman was interviewed on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports" regarding the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board's new report, which called the NSA's data collection program illegal. "My own view was and still is that the program is constitutional, but that’s only one piece. The second piece is, politically does it make sense, and in terms of US security, to have a program which is creating so much dissension in our own country?" Harman said.

Jane Harman was interviewed on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports regarding the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board's new report, which called the NSA's data collection program illegal.

"My own view was and still is that the program is constitutional, but that’s only one piece. The second piece is, politically does it make sense, and in terms of U.S. security, to have a program which is creating so much dissension in our own country?" Harman said.

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Jane Harman

Distinguished Fellow and President Emerita, Wilson Center

Jane Harman, Distinguished Fellow and President Emerita, Wilson Center, is an internationally recognized authority on U.S. and global security issues, foreign relations and lawmaking. A native of Los Angeles and a public-school graduate, she went on to become a nine-term member of Congress, serving decades on the major security committees in the House of Representatives. Drawing upon a career that has included service as President Carter’s Secretary of the Cabinet and hundreds of diplomatic missions to foreign countries, Harman holds posts on nearly a dozen governmental and non-governmental advisory boards and commissions.