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Prevents terrorism. lets talk about it with jonah goldberg editor at large for "the national review." and a fox news contributor. you have said that people ought to be generally skeptical about government. if that is the mindset in america do the numbers surprise you in anyway, 62% dont like these things. >> it doesnt surprise me. in some ways im surprised its not higher. my basic position on this is ive decided that there were no abuses at least that we know of, in terms to of the nsa scandal, ...

In the entire world, and he simultaneously runs the fastest growing part of the united states armed services. cyber command. petraeus, chairman of the joint chiefs and alexander. head of the nsa and cyber command all in the same class from west point which was the first class to graduate once the vietnam war was really and truly over. the new leaks about how much the nsa is spying on us, despite their agreement to only spy on people in other countries. the huge amount of attention that these new...

Administration, the nsa has been picking stuff out of the air going back at least to the 70s. secondly, the issue is whether you cross a line by going into people who are not subjects of terrorism or potentially subjects of terrorism and getting their stuff anyway. when you do that, as eric says, you breach the fourth amendment. it is in my view unconstitutional. the guy should be given a pardon and in my view considered not heroic necessarily but somebody who is fed up with what he was seeing g...

Warrants for actual searches distinguishes these nsa programs from the scandals that people have been talking about, the abuse of the internal revenue service, benghazi, the subpoenas to members of the press, all of which are exclusively executive branch abuses. jon: there have been rallies around the country, going to be one in new york today celebrating edward snowden as a hero. you were one of the first to say hes a traitor. >> hes a dishonorable and deceitful man. he signed numerous document...

And wouldnt be witness to it. we certainly see the diplomatic security agents who are professional and they put themselves into potentially dangerous situations and have gone into all kinds of tense places with them protecting us and also, you know, principally the secretary. >> right. >> is there an attitude of, you know, at night they go off on their own and were hearing about drug rings outside the embassy in baghdad with contractors. again, contractors who have taken over most of the securit...

Think to stand up. im reminded of four decades ago the church and pike committees in congress at a different moment of revelations about intelligence abuses held hearings and brought fourth a body of evidence and roused a nation, people need to be roused by this, thats a different issue, and then we saw things like the pfizer accord. people such as former vice president cheney have worked a sid due wouszly. i would add one last thing. the aclu often gets maligned in this country. the nation was ...

The ig report which detailed information about or investigations involving prostitutes, pedophilia, sexual assault, possible underground drug ring apparently in baghdad. do we have any evidence? we have seen the document. youve seen the document. >> yes, the original, yeah. >> and that document was a memo from who to who? can you say? >> from a group of investigators within the igs office. and they were reporting on investigations primarily undertaken by the diplomatic security bureau which is t...

Something as important at americans testifying about the irs abuses. >> bill: i dont get it. >> i dont know if whats going on there is political or simply that they are going light, but its shame -- abc is the worst of all of them as far as im concerned. >> bill: well, they know better. >> thats right. >> bill: so far, you have been listening to the factor tonight, right? >> yeah. yeah, sure. >> bill: covered this nsa thing fairly? have we been fair here? laid it out there. >> you know why you h...

Im skeptical of him, however, bill. i think he hasnt been very clear and specific about the kinds of abuses he claims have happened or could happen. he hasnt cited any specifics even in terms of the way he described them. so im a little worried about him. in fact, bill, i would say to you that the thing that has worried me most about this program is that this guy got a security clearance. i wonder how he did it and here are not a lot of other guys. >> allen subcontractor. >> he does this. is a g...

I would have said if you didnt -- even if you didnt say that abc is the worst shame on diane sawyer. she is an intelligent person. she used to work at cbs. i knew her there. she is an intelligent journalist. they had time the night of the testimony before congress to run a story about window washers dressing up as super heros to entertain kids in a hospital. i am not against that kind of story. but not at the expense of something as important at americans testifying about the irs abuses. >> bill...