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Started only about eight, nine months ago. only eight, nine months to the develop this. and in hindsight the development should have started sooner. 15 a, 18 months to do this. a very complex system. because, finally because of the nature of the different, you know, legacy, data bases, legacy systems. you know, the -- the, you know -- the -- the systems from all of the defense states that are involved. in kafting it all, takes a lot of time. eight months its aggressive. at the same time, i do th...

Loose information about the possible use of gps coupled with the existing data bases. >> do you believe the nsa needs to collect gps information -- >> i would say this may be something is that a future requirement for the country, but its not right now. >> former nsa contractor, edward snowden, worked for hamilton when she stole education. and they questioned why the two companies walked away with no penalty. if the government considered booze allen and dell just too big to sue. the author who...

They have lost $67 million, misplaced. and so now were supposed to give them more money to do whatever theyre want to do. at least explain the $67 million before you ask for more. >> and isnt it funny that the auditors and the accountants at the irs cant tell you where the money went. look, there is a data hub that is supposed to collect from all of these sources, the individually run exchanges and federal exchanges, and check them against data bases, are you a u.s. citizen? homeland security. a...

Katherine herridge has been with this since day wn one. >> reporter: there are no matches for americans in the data bases or watch list. a complicating factor for investigators is that one of the names is so generic, its described as the somali equivalent to john smith. the mall itse selself is a depa from of the places. because a terrorist group has never tweeted out names in the past. the ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee telling fox news that the attack appears to be retal...

Works, they dont have any retrospective ability. they cant decide a week later or day later or even hours later, okay, lets go look for this because they were not holding on to it anymore? >> that is correct, some of the discrepancies were about vast data bases that had the ability to look back in time when somebody becomes suspicious later on. we know that the phone meta data base which is keeping logs of phone calls of everybody in the united states, which came out in june. that was for five y...

Information so they can cross reference. you know, our i.r.s. filing with our citizenship, for example. as someone thats worked inside government as an ethical hacker, how much of a risk does something like that pose our personal security? >> any of these data bases is by definition a huge risk in terms of personal security. but its also a huge benefit in terms of optimizing your experience because i dont know about you, but ive always hated going to the doctors office and entering a thousand fo...

E-mails in their data bases that theyve collected over the last several years. what these programs are are very simple screens like the ones supermarket clerks or where all an analyst has to do is enter an i.p. address and it searches the data base and lets them listen to the calls or read the e-mails. >>kelly: has america turned into a place where our every move is being tracked now? lets bring in constitutional attorney and author of "of government of woes: the emerging american police state."...

City mayor that lists his birthday as 1942 making him 18 years younger and its being etched. >>gretchen: he had a good sense of humor. probably wouldnt mind that much. more and more states are building massive data bases of drivers license photos to help identify criminals. that means your d.m.v. photo is being saved into a data base where it is compared against a list of potential crooks. is that fair? is it legal? fox news senior judicial analyst andrew napolitano joins me now. >> the governme...

Contractor, he has been given -- by authority he means hes authorized to access these data bases and these technologies. and that there are tens of thousands of people in the nsa who are not accountable, who are authorized to do the same. everyone should go right now whos listening, go onto google and google 2008 abc news nsa abuse. and you will find stories there about low-level nsa analysts who abused these technologies to listen in on the conversations that soldiers were having with their gir...

Authority to do that. he is simply saying because i had i.t. access i could get into anything i wanted to get into, much like, say, people working in the irs used to be able to just look at your tax return if they felt like it even though they were not authorized to do it, the irs has since controlled that. but hes not saying he in any way could legally possibly been given that authority by anyone at the nsa to look at president obamas e-mail? >> precisely, lawrence. and youre making the importa...