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Agents to cover-up investigations of american citizens. i will repeat that. the dea is asking their agents to cover up some of the work theyve done while theyve been investigating americans. fellow americans. reuters says this is a secret program that it has nothing 20 do with social security like the terrorism and everything youve been hearing about before by the nsa carried out by special operations division. thats sob for short. reuters says it includes two dozen agencies including the fbi, t...

Hp moonshot. its time to build a better enterprise. together. saving time by booking an appointment online, even smarter. online scheduling. available now at meineke.com. intelligence analysts are combing through database, phone records, websites. they are searching for details about a terror attack. this is u.s. officials extending the closing around 19 posts around the world. embassie embassies, consulates will remain closed through saturday. each post is being watched

Court. when an american citizen talks to somebody outside of the united states, those e-mails, telephone calls and activity is accessible by the nsa without a warrant. on top of that the nsa makes mistakes all the time. it is difficult to know the national origin of communication. all kinds of domestic calls get put in to this database as well. as the aclus said, huge amounts of communication are swept up in what the nsa calls foreign surveillance. >> this is an important clarification that this...

Back to the analyst so he can continue his task. if you read it without the scaremongering elsewhere in the article this is really quite an achievement and it is exactly what you want american intelligence analysts to be able to do to find the needle in the hay stack. >> so youre saying they can search through, you know, any given civilian, the text, the database, the e-mail searches, all those things, right? find that needle in the hey stack. i guess the fear people have is once you have the ab...

When somebody talks to somebody outside the united states, that activity is accessible by the nsa without a warrant and on top of that, the nsa makes mistakes. its difficult to know the origin. so purely domestic calls get put into this database as well. so as the acl said in our piece, huge numbers are swept up by what the nsa calls foreign surveillance -- >> but i think glen -- >> i mean, this is an important clarification that this is primarily targeted at international e-mails, not purely do...

Authority to wire tap anyone. >> reporter: jim lewis says no way. >> the more it sounds like hollywood the less likely it is to be true. the idea that you can sit at your desk and say i want to wire tap that is silly. >> reporter: not surprisingly the nsa says, quote, the impplication that the collection is arbitrary and unconstrained is false. in the latest what we are waiting for, wiki leaks has posted a tweet saying edward snowden later today will make what it calls an important statement abo...

Intelligence analysts to be able to do to find the needle in the hay stack. >> so youre saying they can search through, you know, any given civilian, the text, the database, the e-mail searches, all those things, right? find that needle in the hey stack. i guess the fear people have is once you have the ability to do that, what stops you from doing it whenever the heck you want on whomever the heck you want? >> first of all, erin, you can only do it against the data that you have collected. and ...

Glen greenwald is reporting that allows nsa analysts to search history of internet, email without authorization. bombshell revelation in ways, one you could argue could have caused more problems than your original stories. what -- why is it is serious? tell me about the ex key score in a simple way that explains why you think this is such a serious situation. >> first of all, piers, the database is that this program accesses is storing 40 billion internet records every 30 days, ed essentially tr...

Former worker of the intelligence community who has caused so much trouble for his old baosses was adding new fuel to the fire. the latest revelation from confessed intelligence leaker, edward snowden, is almost staggering. how the government, using a program known as x keyscore can access emails, web browsing, private chats, you name it along with what we already knew, the meta data that tell them about telephone calls and other electronic communication. the "guardians" len green-week-old told ...

Are subject to strict control. >> query, which is the search of the database can only be done on reasonable articulatable suspicion and only 22 people have access to that, trained and vetted analysts at the nsa. >> but weather wl the government has enough safeguards is an open question that starts with the unauthorized access that edward snowden got, a sore point on the hill. >> who double-checked mr. snowden? >> there are checks at multiple levels, there are checks in terms of what an individua...