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The charging document itself. the first page, its a bare bones thing. this is the totality in what the government released, by the way, and the rest of the case if you go to the courts website and looks at it, its under seal. he is basically charged with violating three federal laws. stealing government property, and secondly, two charges under the espionage chapter in the federal charging book, improperly giving out classified national defense information to somebody who is not cleared to see i...

The government has disclosed it has filed charges against edward snowden, the intelligence contractor that says he leaked classified information about secret surveillance programs to two newspapers. earlier tonight we learned charges had been filed against mr. snowden but now we can record what those charges are and their likely penalties. he is charged with theft of government property, and giving national defense information to somebody without security clearance and revealing classified infor...

Of pretty hefty shock and outrage at the scale of what was going on. at the same time i do think any government in america has got to be doing a lot of this kind of stuff to fight terrorism. as a man that broke the pentagon papers, where is the line? where do we draw the line going forward? because the key question now is what is the line and who draws it? >> i had clearances for communications intelligence for years in the government. when i revealed the top secret pentagon papers, i put out no...

Pentagon papers, i put out no communications intelligence because i really knew of none and had access to it in those years. i had none at that time that was abusive as what we just learned now that i felt the public need to know outweighed the need for secret. i believe there is and was a reason for communication intelligence and much of it has to be kept secret. what is clear here as you say you were shocked and outraged, i presume not at the discovery of communications intercepts, you must ha...

Believe if the nsa is collecting millions and millions of phone records and telephones calls as they are it makes it more difficult for them to stop terrorist plots because they are collecting so much stuff they dont even know what they have. >> daniel ellsberg, im slightly torn. my reaction, i interviewed glen the day after this broke was one of pretty hefty shock and outrage at the scale of what was going on. at the same time i do think any government in america has got to be doing a lot of th...

Nigeria. now its im angry about whats happening in palestine. the significance of isis used to be that they could recruit people to train in syria. now its this idea about whatever motivates me to be angry, isis gives me validation to go out and kill people. i think thats the power of isis in the years to come, especially when people can get access to isis information on the internet. >> the suicide bomb was apparently pretty crude. what does that say to you? >> well, it tells me initially that ...