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Every -- how long is that phone call? who are you calling? maybe even the location information associated with the phone call. thats a lot of data. its not just about suspected terrorists, its about everybody. >> let me ask you about a statement thats come out tonight from an unnamed official because its always an unnamed official. unnamed senior administration official telling reuters tonight the prism program thats been disclosed by the "washington post" and the guardian tonight, communication...

A lot of internet traffic in syria and particularly vital as communications medium during the arab spring. of the companies named in these nsa documents published by "the post and "the guardian," five of the big names issued statements denying they participate in this program saying they do not provide the government direct access or some sort of secret back door to their servers. nevertheless, the nsa says theyre in. both papers were apparently given access to what seems to be the same document...

Outside the united states this program is something people ought to care about. its a program that results in the government building huge databases of americans communications. >> deputy legal director of the aclu, i have a feeling we will be hearing from the aclu in some official capacity shortly. >> you might. >> i will not ask you to tip your hand. thank you for being here. much more to come including a best new thing in the world. man: how did i get here? dumb luck? or good decisions? ones ...

Being surveilled by that agency. that amendment only got 43 votes and failed and tried another amendment that would have made the program transparent to the public. it got only 37 votes and failed. in 2009 when the patriot act was being re-authorized, russ feingold and dick durbin said people should not have their records seized by the government unless there was some tangential connection to terrorism. that amendment failed, too. back to 2005 senators tried and amendment that would have kept th...

Trying to get others concerned about it. mark udall writing to the attorney general last year warning if the secret court rulings were ever made public they would stun americans saying there is now a quote significant gap between what most americans think the law allows and what the government secretly claims the law allows. when the fisa court authorizing was up for another vote in december last year, those senators and others supported an amendment that would have forced the security administr...

Example from the phone records spying program that was revealed last night by "the guardian" the program that has the government storing records of past phone calls allowing intelligence to go back to that data and mine through it at a later date. more on the latest details of that program in a little bit. on the computer spying, the story breaking tonight, "the guardian" and the "washington post" reporting the national security agency and fbi are tapping directly into the central servers of nin...

More on the latest details of that program in a little bit. on the computer spying, the story breaking tonight, "the guardian" and the "washington post" reporting the national security agency and fbi are tapping directly into the central servers of nine different u.s. internet companies. big big names in american computing, google and yahoo! and microsoft, who was apparently first in, in the program. facebook and aol, skype and youtube and apple and something called paltalk. i was not previously...

Outside the united states. the government points to that to try to reassure americans this isnt about them. in fact in the course of surveillance directed outside the united states the government routinely collects international phone calls americans make to those people or calls that those people make to americans inside the united states. so while the program is nominally directed at people outside its collecting all sorts of information americans have an interest in. this program, even if you...

New details are breaking about widespread government surveillance of americans. it turns out every time you picked up the phone the government has known what number you were dialing. a secret surveillance program is collecting the telephone records of every single one of us. >> late last night, breaking news of the giant news story in the u.s., secret court orders never been seen before showing the nsa telling verizon that the nsa was going to collect en masse verizons telephone data. that was t...

Just e-mails, information about when you log-on or off, documents, videos, audios, chats, skype chat, photos. it is not for people suspected of crimes, it is, at least it seems, for all of us, everything that goes through microsoft, yahoo! google, aol, skype, google and paltalk, according to classified documents by "the "washington post"," dropbox is soon to be coming to this program. i will have more on this straight ahead. see, i knew teste could affect sex drive, but not energy or even my moo...