Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis blasted Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst on Sunday for using the 20-week abortion ban legislation in Texas to advance their own political ambitions. 
 
 “I think really what’s happening here, Bob, is politicians are using this issue to boost their own political aspirations, their own political ambitions,” she told host Bob Schieffer Sunday on CBS's “Face the Nation.” 
 
 “Gov. Perry and Lt. Gov. Dewhurst are willing to … put women in harm’s way in order to step up on the political ladder,” she continued. 
 
 (QUIZ: Do you know Wendy Davis?) 
 
 Davis, a Democrat, also said she expects Republicans to be “smarter” about how they manage the bill in the upcoming special legislative session, but that the national attention will ensure they are held “accountable” for the bill. 
 
 “They mismanaged the clock terribly last time, and they also ran roughshod over a lot of our senate rules and traditions to try to ram this bill through. And they’ll probably be a bit smarter about how they try to move this bill in this next session starting on Monday,” she said. “But what they now have to confront is that the eyes of Texas, the eyes of the country are watching.” 
 
 Read more about: Abortion, Rick Perry, Texas, David Dewhurst, Wendy Davis ||||| House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is defending her criticism of NSA leaker Edward Snowden and suggests he may not have any more substantive information about the surveillance program. 
 
 “We have to know what is it that he has. And I don't know that he has that much substance,” Pelosi said in an interview aired Sunday on NBC’s "Meet the Press." “He may know something about the machinery. I don't know that he knows that much about the content. But I think that anybody thought he was a hero to begin with, now that he's threatening in any event to share information with Russia and China, if he fact he has any information, I think that should disabuse anybody of the notion-- that he is a hero.” 
 
 The California Democrat also pushed back about criticism that while speaking to a progressive group, Pelosi was booed when she said Snowden wasn’t a hero. 
 
 “And by the way, it was a smattering when I objected to him being called a hero. And yes, he did break the law,” she said. She added, “I think it's pretty good that he's stuck in the Moscow Airport. That's okay with me. He can stay there, that's fine.” 
 
 Pelosi said the program strikes a balance. 
 
 (Also on POLITICO: Assange: ‘Disgrace’ to cancel Snowden passport) 
 
 “We all know that we have to have a balance between security to protect the American people and liberty. We take an oath to protect and defend the constitution and the American people,” she said. “And there -- so I have -- in all of the legislation that I've been involved in put serious obstacles to having surveillance that comes anywhere near to violating the rights of the American people including the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board which I think will now be further strengthened.” 
 
 The current programs, she said, shouldn’t be compared to surveillance under former President George W. Bush. 
 
 (PHOTOS: Pols react to Snowden on the run) 
 
 “President Bush exercised unfettered, unlimited presidential discretion for surveillance in-- for surveillance," she said. "Under President Obama in '08 before he even became president we passed the FISA amendments which put up obstacles to the federal government doing surveillance which put oversight whether it's-- inspectors general, whether it's the Congress of the United States, whether it's a privacy or-- Privacy and Civil Liberties Board." 
 
 Read more about: Nancy Pelosi, Surveillance, NSA, Edward Snowden ||||| Conservative leader Ralph Reed is pushing back at depictions of those who oppose gay marriage as being bigots. 
 
 In a panel Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Reed, the head of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, responded to comments by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow that those who oppose gay marriage are trying to discriminate against gays and lesbians. 
 
 "By that argument, was Barack Obama intolerant 14 months ago?" Reed asked Maddow. 
 
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 He rattled off a list of Democrats who voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but are now opposed to it, including Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Patrick Leahy. 
 
 "All voted for this law and Bill Clinton who signed it into law were intolerant and motivated by a animus toward gays?" Reed said. "Obama was 14 months ago. Was he a bigot 14 months ago?" 
 
 Read more about: Barack Obama, Gay Marriage, Ralph Reed ||||| Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, who skyrocketed to national stardom after she filibustered an abortion bill last week, said on Sunday she's not giving up when the Texas Legislature returns to again consider the legislation. 
 
 "We will fight as we begin the session again on Monday," the Democratic lawmaker said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "I don't think that we will concede that the battle is over." 
 
 Davis pointed out that the legislation isn't just a ban on abortions after 20 weeks, the element that has gained the most attention. It also includes regulations that will close many of the abortion clinics in the state. 
 
 "It's a huge omnibus bill that includes many many other aspects to it that are setting Texas back," Davis said. 
 
 (QUIZ: Do you know Wendy Davis?) 
 
 She also responded to Texas Gov. Rick Perry pointing out that Davis was a teenage mother as evidence that she should support abortion bans. 
 
 "My life story is something that belongs to me. I had choices and chances and opportunities," Davis said. "What I'm working to fight for is to make sure that all women have the ability to do that." 
 
 "His comments really demean the high office that he holds," Davis said, "and I think that's why we saw such a strong reaction to it." 
 
 Read more about: Abortion, Rick Perry, Texas, Wendy Davis ||||| The former director of the CIA and NSA said Sunday revelations about NSA surveillance programs have done “significant” damage to President Barack Obama and his administration should do more to educate the American people about what’s going on. 
 
 The administration, retired Gen. Michael Hayden said on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” should “make the American people a bit more comfortable about what we’re doing, otherwise they won’t let us do it in the first place.” 
 
 “In an ideal world, I’d keep all of this secret because any of it I make public slices some of my operational advantage away from me,” he said. 
 
 Still, he said, if the government does not find a “national consensus” on issues of surveillance, there will be a huge backlash. 
 
 “You may be able to do one thing one-off based on narrow legalness … but democracies like ours don’t get to do something over a long period of time without national consensus,” he said. 
 
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– Wendy Davis took her 10 hours of filibustering fame and extended it by at least 15 minutes, appearing on three Sunday shows today and unloading on Texas Republicans trying to push through a 20-week abortion ban. “Gov. Perry and Lt. Gov. Dewhurst are willing to … put women in harm’s way in order to step up on the political ladder,” she said, adding that Republicans "mismanaged the clock terribly last time, and ran roughshod over a lot of our senate rules and traditions to try to ram this bill through. And they’ll probably be a bit smarter. But what they now have to confront is that the eyes of Texas, the eyes of the country are watching.” As for Rick Perry's musings on her beginnings, she responded thusly: "My life story is something that belongs to me. I had choices and chances and opportunities. What I'm working to fight for is to make sure that all women have the ability to do that." Elsewhere on the Sunday dial, as per Politico: Nancy Pelosi on Edward Snowden: “We have to know what is it that he has. And I don't know that he has that much substance. He may know something about the machinery. I don't know that he knows that much about the content. But now that he's threatening to share information with Russia and China, if he in fact he has any information, I think that should disabuse anybody of the notion that he is a hero.” And furthermore: “I think it's pretty good that he's stuck in the Moscow airport. That's OK with me. He can stay there, that's fine.” Former NSA chief Michael Hayden on NSA leak: It has caused "significant" damage, and “in an ideal world, I’d keep all of this secret because any of it I make public slices some of my operational advantage away from me. But democracies like ours don’t get to do something over a long period of time without national consensus." Conservative leader Ralph Reed says Prop 8 supporters aren't bigots: Joe Biden and Pat Leahy were among Dems who "voted for this law and Bill Clinton, who signed it into law, (so were they) intolerant and motivated by an animus toward gays? Obama was 14 months ago. Was he a bigot 14 months ago?"