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Everyone's Got an Opinion - If the various writers of songs titled "Can You Hear Me Now" could get royalties each time the phrase has been applied to the National Security Agency spying controversy, it would be like winning the mega PowerBall. It's just one of the many responses to the surveillance program — lawsuits, jokes tweets, polls — and more. —Joyce Jones(Photo: US Government)

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Judicial Watched - Larry Klayman, former chairman of watchdog group Judicial Watch, with two fellow Verizon customers, is suing Verizon, NSA, the Justice Department, President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and others. The suit claims that the collection of phone data is an "outrageous breach of privacy."(Photo: Stefan Zaklin/ Getty Images)

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Payback? - Charles and Mary Ann Strange, parents of a Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan, have filed a class-action suit against NSA and Verizon. They say their phone records were part of the surveillance program because they have publicly criticized the president and the U.S. military.     (Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

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Unconstitutional - The American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union have filed a constitutional challenge to the surveillance program. They are arguing that it violates First and Fourth Amendment rights and exceeds Patriot Act authority provided by Congress. (Photo: ACLU)

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But It Works! - "In recent years, these programs, together with other intelligence, have protected the U.S. and our allies from terrorist threats across the globe to include helping prevent the potential terrorist events over 50 times since 9/11," NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander said at a June 18 Senate hearing.(Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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A Bipartisan Plan - Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan) and Rep. Justin Amash (R-Michigan) have introduced a bill that would require the NSA to have a specific target before it can collect phone records. The bill has 31 bipartisan co-sponsors.(Photos: Win McNamee/Getty Images; Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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I'm No Dick Cheney - Some people say, ‘Well, you know, Obama was this raving liberal before. Now he’s, you know, Dick Cheney,’” Obama said in an interview with PBS host Charlie Rose. “My concern has always been not that we shouldn’t do intelligence gathering to prevent terrorism, but rather: Are we setting up a system of checks and balances?” (Photo: PBS)

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Generation Gap - A new USA Today/Pew Research Center survey released June 18 found that 60 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds support the leaks that exposed the NSA surveillance programs, compared with 36 percent of 65 and older. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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Jimmy Fallon - "The National Security Agency has been collecting the phone records of Verizon customers since April. That explains Verizon's new ad campaign: 'They Can Hear You Now.'" (Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

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Jay Leno - "How ironic is that? We wanted a president that listens to all Americans — now we have one."(Photo: Jeff Daly/PictureGroup)

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Bizarre Excuse for an Ad - Denny's is using the controversy in a strange new ad. It sent via Twitter a gif featuring a dirty old computer with a fuzzy screen and the tag line: "Denny's knows what you crave before they do."  (Photo: Denny's)

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That Depends - A CBS News poll published June 11 found that a whopping 75 percent of respondents approve of the government collecting phone records of Americans suspected of terrorist activity. But when it comes to ordinary Americans, not so much. Just 38 percent said it's alright to use the same surveillance on that group. (Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Details Matter - In a Washington Post/Pew Research Center poll released June 10, 51 percent said they're actually OK with the government tracking phone records to investigate terrorism. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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Ungag Me - Google's chief legal officer, David Drummond, has asked Attorney General Holder for permission to publish information about the "volume and scope of secret federal court orders" that required it to participate in the surveillance program. Facebook and Twitter support Google's move. (Photo: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

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He Should Know - Remember disgraced ex-New York Times reporter Jayson Blair, who was caught plagiarizing in 2003? "As an expert on questionable reporting, I'd say there have been some questionable reporting on the NSA stories," he tweeted. Blair likes to use Twitter to engage with others on the hot topics of the day.(Photo: The New York Times via Getty Images)

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His Hero - Edward Snowden, who leaked information about NSA surveillance programs, is "Hero of the Year," tweeted activist filmmaker Michael Moore.(Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

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Opposites Attract - The normally conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board says the NSA surveillance program is "legal and necessary" for national security.(Photo: Cate Gillon/Getty Images)

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How Could He? - The liberal New York Times editorial board says, "The administration has now lost all credibility on this issue." (Photo: Stephen Chernin/Getty Images)

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What Are You Gonna Do? - Comedian and political satirist Bill Maher thinks the NSA program is unconstitutional, but "we live in a world of nuclear weapons," so he supports it. (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

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He Is Watching You - (Photo: Flickr via wait74)

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They Can Hear You - (Photo: via Imgur.com)

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Verizon Customers Want to Know - (Photo: Twitter via @JasonBiggs)

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Beat Them to the Punch - (Photo: Twitter via @Levie)

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