Also testifying in Wednesday’s Senate hearing, Attorney General Eric Holder said he believes the bulk collection of phone records by the National Security Agency is constitutional, but will still be reformed on the orders of President Obama.

Eric Holder: “I’d say that 15 judges in the FISA court (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court), two judges — one in California, one in New York — have looked at this question and made the determination that the 215 program is, in fact, constitutional. One judge in Washington, D.C., has decided it is not. But I think that really only deals with one-half of the question. I believe that they are correct that it is constitutional. It is an appropriate use, in a constitutional sense, of the government’s power. But the question is, and as — what the president has posed to us, just because we can do something, should we do it?”