Krauthammer on Surveillance: It Looks Like There Was Abuse by the Obama Admin

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BAIER: "It falls into the current investigations as well in the context. The end of the Obama Administration, exponentially increased the unmasking and the FISA judges blasting the NSA institutional lack of candor, adding "This is a very serious fourth amendment issue and clearly in these documents they are frustrated. They are losing patience."
KRAUTHAMMER: "I think it will because they are to be new institutional safeguards. I think the debate over whether or not to have the metadata is sort of over. We have this tremendous capacity to scoop up the data and analyze it. The problem is the power it gives people who scoop it up, and the oversight. I am worried it's going to get caught up with partisanship. Looks as if it was abused by the Obama Administration. What I think we ought to be thinking about is how do you institute new mechanisms that will be, and oversight perhaps from Congress but from also the courts. So that it's not abused in the future. I am worried were going to be obsessed with who did what to whom when, looking to find scapegoats and to retroactively put the Obama Administration on trial. There are probably abuses that ought to be exposed and people punished but that's not the major issue. The major issue, we are in the new age. We have new capacities. How do you harness it?"