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>> oh, how i wish you could sit in a seat to do the job of protecting the country. the president has a tough job. i want to help the president do his job protecting the country. the legislative branch acts for the future. judges act by reflecting on the past. the president has to deal with the reality of today. i watch presidents do that. i have confidence they can do a good job and this is a valuable tool for them to protect the country. >> the oath that the president takes when they get inaugu...

Joe johns is in washington following developments. good morning, joe. the no-spy rule. whoever thought wed hear about this? >> reporter: fascinating, chris. this is fallout from the latest revelations from admitted national security agency leaker edward snowden. the outrage is predictable, even though we know various countries spy on each other pretty regularly. german president angela merkel and the french president are calling for closer cooperation among the intelligence gathering services. t...

When you have this sprawling system and there are 20,000 employees at the nsa but many other tens of thousands working for private contractors, collecting enormous amounts of data, its an unaccountable, uncontrollable system. youre going to give access to huge numbers of people to the most sensitive communications data and other forms of information about people. theres no way to prevent abuse. thats one of the lessons here. >> and hes kind of low level. im reading what he told you about what he...

Really does and felt compelled to step forward and do something about it. but that is the key. when you have this sprawling system and there are 20,000 employees at the nsa but many other tens of thousands working for private contractors, collecting enormous amounts of data, its an unaccountable, uncontrollable system. youre going to give access to huge numbers of people to the most sensitive communications data and other forms of information about people. theres no way to prevent abuse. thats o...

Signals, intelligence and the like. >> reporter: absolutely. and that is always a very crucial problem. the u.s., frankly, eavesdrops around the world on knowing terrorist groups and foreign countries, and scoops up massive amounts of communications data, cell phone intercepts, internet postings, e-mails, internet communications, all over the world. they cannot possibly go through all of it. it has been a continuing issue and problem. they are getting better at it, but they will now go back by a...

Would do is require internet service providers to install the systems which essentially harvest what is called pocket data, and that with mean they could see what websites you visit, without are talking to, any time online. according to a home office spokesman, and the intelligence armies they need to do this because "it is vital that police and security services are able to obtain communications data in certain circumstances to investigate serious crime and terrorism and to protect the public. ...

Really just trying to keep up with the technology. >> yeah. their claims, shep, is that they already have similar laws to this regarding tracking cell phone calls. what they want to do is expand that to take into account the way that people comawn indicate with new technology in the modern world. so essentially what the government is saying they want to know every single place any individual goes online any person that any individual communicates. home office said to us it is vital that police a...

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