Reps. James Sensenbrenner (R., Wis.) and Robert Goodlatte (R., Va.) appeared on Fox News Thursday to discuss the potential perjury charges leveled at Attorney General Eric Holder and to discuss the report that the NSA has stored thousands of Verizon phone records.
Both congressmen agreed that Holder has yet to provide adequate responses to questions asked in last week’s testimony before Congress and that he would have to reappear to clarify his statements in regards to his supposed ignorance of the potential prosecution of Fox News Reporter James Rosen.
Holder faces scrutiny after an AP report disclosed that the Department of Justice had been gathering AP reporters phone records for "national security" purposes as well as signing off an search warrant for Rosen's email accounts after a report of his surfaced containing classified information.
Sensenbrenner, subcommittee chairman for the subcommittee on crime, terrorism, and homeland security, went on to say that the NSA had overstepped its boundaries with the seizing of thousands of phone records and said, "If we have to amend the Patriot Act before 2015 to stop this from happening I am all for doing that, and I am the author of the act."
Late Wednesday night The Guardian ran a story revealing that the NSA has been collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily. While the contents of the records are unclear, lawmakers have reacted by affirming that this type of data collection has been going for the last seven years.