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This type of program could be used to yield more information about our private lives and open the door to more intrusive bulk collection programs in the future. they are also right to point out that although the telephone bulk collection program was subject to oversight by the foreign intelligence surveillance court and has been reauthorized repeatedly by congress, it has never been subject to vigorous public debate. for all these reasons, i believe we need a new approach. i am, therefore, order...

About our private lives. and open the door to more intrusive bulk collection programs in the future. there are -- theyre also right to point out although the bulk telephone collection program was subject to oversight by the foreign intelligence surveillance court and has been reauthorized repeatedly by congress, it has never been subject to vigorous public debate. for all these reasons i believe we need a new approach. i am therefore ordering a transition that will end the section 215 bulk metad...

And it certainly violates the rights of our people. what we need to do, in effect, the intelligence community is always talking about getting a bigger and bigger haystack of information. what we need to do is focus on making sure that we can find those needles, so to speak, that really are the threats. >> senator, as you know, people in the national security community argue that national security would be damaged if we stopped these programs, including the bulk collection metadata program. you k...

Leaks. joining us now u.s. national security editor for "the guardian" spencer ackerman. tell us, if you will, what you think the ruling means in the broader picture in and around the nsa. >> its absolutely a devastating thing for the nsa. the nsa has argued for the last six months that every court that has looked at it, every judge that examined its bulk collection programs has found them to be completely in compliance with the law and with the constitution. that talking point is now out the wi...

Controversial surveillance programs. we have gone through these documents. we have read them. and then the biggest takeaway is this. the nsas two bulk collection programs have had a number of technical and human compliance issues. but according to these documents, the problems are being addressed. many details about these technical and human problems, though, they have been redacted. theyve been blacked out. let me bring in crime and justice correspondent joe johns in washington. the nsa, theyre...

Your government is revealing top secret details and problems with how it collects information on phone calls, your e-mails, all in the name of protecting you from potential terror plots. the director of national intelligence james clapper released these three declassified documents today, hours before lawmakers started grilling the nsa on its controversial surveillance programs. the documents say that the nsas two bulk collection programs have had a number of technical and a number of human comp...

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