PBS NewsHour

What’s behind Obama’s effort to limit surveillance

Clip: 03/25/2014 | 7m 38s

President Obama announced that he wants Congress to stop the National Security Agency from gathering bulk phone records and holding them for five years. What’s at stake in the president’s push to limit the scope of U.S. surveillance? Gwen Ifill talks to Kate Martin of the Center for National Security Studies and Gary Schmitt of the American Enterprise Institute.

Aired: 03/25/14

Rating: NR

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