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Snowden has talked before about how the program could be misused. >> i sit at my desk certainly have the authority to wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a federal judge, to even the president, if i had a personal email. >> the national security agency issued a statement saying allegations of widespread unchecked analyst access to nsa collection data are simply not true. that it focuses on foreign intelligence targets. our tools have stringent oversight and compliance mechanisms, built...

Involved as these programs begin shortly after 9/11, when all of us were worried about plots against the nsa -- agreeing with dianne feinstein who wrote an op-ed in the "washington post" who said there are still plots being hatched against the united states. >> why do you think the congressman is wrong? >> hes wrong because the program doesnt collect data against americans in violation of the fourth amendment. it collects meta data, lists of numbers which can only be accessed after there is an i...

Civil liberties and civil rights. i just point out, and say a fisa-related program, its a fisa-related program that uncovered an al qaeda cell in senator pauls own state of kentucky. so he just makes they charges about spying and snooping. he makes america the enemy. that reminds me of years ago when he had the always blame america first democrats, and we saw what happened to them. they were a losing party. >> i know ha hes thinking of running for the republican presidential nomination in 2016. ...

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 ...

Now to the fight over the secret surveillance by the nsa. a new poll shows the public growing more weary that the government could go too far in its surveillance programs and violate privacy rights. for the first time now, a majority, 56%, now say they are worried the u.s. monitoring programs will go too far. its the first time its gotten over 50%. that sentiment reflected last night on the floor when a polarized vote brought together a strange coalition of the very liberal and very conservative...

Homes. firefighters are finally starting to get handle on that fire. right now its about 40% contained. the fbi director is getting questions about those surveillance programs that are causing so much debate. he defending the program in hearing. it happened earlier today. he says its crucial in helping connect the dots about possible terrorist plots. i want to bring in joe johns talking about what he said in this hearing and how did he defend some of these surveillance programs. a lot of peopl...

Queried, our questioner ring the providers for whether they have those business records related to a reasonable articulable suspicion of a foreign terrorist connection? >> i think jointly the fbi, and nsa are looking at the architectural framework of how we actually do this program, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of doing each one. each case, as you know from our discussions, if you leave it at the service providers you have a separate set of issues, in terms of how you actually g...

They have full clearances and the ability to get full visibility into this program. in fact they have recently been briefed on the programs and i know they are in fact looking at them to make exactly that kind of assessment. >> who do they report to? is that report public? >> its the presidents board. i suspect that they are making a classified report it would not be public. to the extent they can make an up classified report its up to them whether it becomes public. >> several of you mentioned ...

Lets say hypothetically osama bin laden had been making phone calls into some state in the united states i think all americans would want to know about it and primarily want to know who it is hes talking to because we are sure hes not conducting strock transactions. on the other hand people are concerned, this new information that the government collects metta data, which is meaningful stuff, it tells you the position of that person, what floor in a pulling they are. there is concern about that ...

A day where were continuing to debate the nsa and the big surveillance program, we cant lose sight as to why we even have that program to begin with, and thats 9/11. thats also the reason we went to war in afghanistan, but we certainly dont talk a lot about the war anymore. so we wanted to take a moment to do that today. theres some big announcements out of afghanistan today. security throughout that country is now primarily in the hands of afghan forces with america and nato allies playing a su...