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The fate of nsa leaker edward snowden is playing out now in the media, and its a very polarizing issue pitting high profile republicans against one another. tea party favorite senator rand paul advocates a light prison sentence for snowden, even taking a swing at the director of national intelligence, james clapper, for telling congress the usa does not wittingly collect bulk information on americans. this comes as his fellow republican, congressman peter king, accuses paul of spreading lies abo...

Although they havent harmed us in terms of our intelligence gathering capacity. the fact that he had access tells you if you check all this bulk information, who knows what kind of people, not just the nsa professionals could get it. looking at what this done. of course, we have been spying on our allies as our allies have been spying on us. when you make that information public, it causes some severious problems. we have them with brazil. >> that actually is damaging trade. its causing a number...

Witnessingly collect information on all americans. bulk information. after snowden released his information we found out that was simply not true. he apologized. but, none the less, knee but when he said it? >> some people say he never would have ever admitted to this and american would have never known had snowdens revelations never come forward. senator why den told him in advance he wasnt going to ask the question. it wasnt like he got hamstrung and got confused and gave the wrong answer, he ...

Witnessingly collect information on all americans. bulk information. after snowden released his information we found out that was simply not true. he apologized. but, none the less, knee but when he said it? >> some people say he never would have ever admitted to this and american would have never known had snowdens revelations never come forward. senator why den told him in advance he wasnt going to ask the question. it wasnt like he got hamstrung and got confused and gave the wrong answer, he ...

And since american cellphone data might be caught up the aclu is concerned. they told the post that quote one of the key components of location is private. the only way to hide is to disconnect from the modern system and live in a cave. they are trying to detect any connections with the phones of known terrorist. a lawyer for the national intelligence says quote there is no element of the intelligence community that is intentionally collecting bulk information about cell phones. the nsa doesnt k...

There until they need it to analyze in terms of a given phone number, who that number calls or is receiving calls from once there is a suspicion about that number or the person who subscribes to that number. right now we are talking about, it sounds like, the phone companies -- at least verizon in this case, is turning over probably 80 million to 100 million phone calls per day to nsa and theyre going into nsas computer system for storage. later if there is a particular number that comes up as s...

Going into nass computer system for storage. later if there is a particular number that comes up as suspicious or an individual that comes under investigation for a possible being involved with terrorism, lets say, then they can go to that number and analyze all of the calls to and from that number. >> they might need a court order to do that. >> already obtained the information as far as the bulk information in the first place. already you have all three branches of the government involved, the...