8. Where will Sen. Lindsey Graham be next week? A. Traveling to different swing states to promote immigration reform B. In his home state campaigning for reelection C. In Egypt D. In Russia, lobbying for the extradition of Edward Snowden Graham 'glad' NSA tracking phones

Frequent critic of the White House Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is defending the National Security Agency’s reported collection of millions of Americans’ phone calls, saying he’s more concerned about terrorism.

“I’m glad the NSA is trying to find out what the terrorists are up to overseas and in our country,” Graham said Thursday morning on “Fox & Friends.”


As a customer of Verizon, the subject of the court order, Graham said he and others had nothing to worry about.

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“I’m a Verizon customer. I don’t mind Verizon turning over records to the government if the government is going to make sure that they try to match up a known terrorist phone with somebody in the United States. I don’t think you’re talking to the terrorists. I know you’re not. I know I’m not. So we don’t have anything to worry about.”

And Graham assured the hosts that the surveillance was limited to terrorism.

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“I’m glad that activity is going on, but it is limited to tracking people who are suspected to be terrorists and who they may be talking to,” Graham said. He was asked whether he was sure: “Yes, I am sure that that’s what they’re doing.”

Prodded further by Gretchen Carlson as to whether the report of millions of phone calls being collected was true, Graham said: “I’m sure we should be doing this.”

The supportive remarks from the Republican stand in contrast to a number of Democrats who have been highly critical of the administration in light of the report.

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