princess diana, driver killed when a mercedes benz hit a pillar. drunk driving caused the accident. conspiracy thirsts theorists believe diana was murdered. scotland yard says this is not a reinvestigation into princess diana s death. shannon? shannon: brian, thank you very much. the president tried to convince americans there have been no abuses when it comes to the nsa s data collection program. a week later, revelations of thousands of privacy violations have surfaced, mistakes the nsa is going principal school, elizabeth plan is in washington where both sides of the aisle want overside. americans learn this week the national security agency did overstep its authority thousands of times over and for years. whether it was a result of monitoring incorrect phone lines due to confusing country and area codes continue to triewive access and unauthorized storage to legally protected communications. an internal audit found the
democratic congresswoman jane harmon, a leading voice on intelligence and national security issues and is now head of the woodrow wilson center here in washington. congressman, let me start with you. why do you hate this nsa surveillance program? to be clear, the program we re talking about is not the program that was revealed today. the program that my amendment dealt with was the collection of telephone records. and what the government was doing through the nsa was collecting the phone records and is collecting the phone records on a daily basis of every single american in the country. without any suspicion. and that violates the fourth amendment. you have to have reasonableness to go after people s records, you have to have problem aebl cause and you need a warrant and right now they re collecting phone records of everyone rather than just those who are under suspicion, which is how the patriot act was intended to be. let s let congresswoman harmen respond. you used to be on the i
we re not going to look at them. we just want to have copies of them in case we need them in the future. that s a violation of the fourth amendment. this program is clearly constitutional, it just doesn t work that way. with respect, that s way to scare people. that s not how it works and the amount of meta data that can be collected is reviewed every 90 days by the federal court. the provisions by which all this happens, enacted by congress. i know you opposed them all, but i think they were responsible. sunset every three years and congress has a chance to review them. and oh by the way i agree with senator feinstein in her op-ed today who thinks there are reasons why we might narrow some of those provisions. congress is debating this. i think that is the very good thing and it might be time to narrow how much data is collected, what the standards for review are and to do something else that i know you support. which is to have an ombudsman in the fisa court reviewing how it
he was in his own driveway and he was unarmed. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. he may be holed up at moscow airport, but the nsa leaker is stirring up more fear today about the extent of government snooping and about the vulnerability of america s secrets. the guardian newspaper in london published new information from the documents leaked by edward snowden. the report describes a secret tool used by the nsa that could collect vast amounts of internet data from millions of people. also today intense senate hearing on surveillance and the snowden security breach. our crime and justice correspondent, joe johns has been looking into all of this for us and has this report. joe? wolf, even as the government was trying to show more transparency by confirming that its massive electronic data collection program s function in the u.s. and overseas, the rogue
they re two separate issues, and he should know the difference. senator paul claims to be a great friend of israel, but yesterday the ambassador to israel said that continuing american aid to egypt is essentially to maintain the peace process and to maintain the eups/israeli peace agreement that was negotiated under president carter over on 30 years ago, so it s easy to say cut this or cut that, you can have an intelligence debate, but so far he hasn t shown very much intelligence. in his word it s unconstitutional. you want to respond to senator powell on that front? sure. first of all, the nsa program has been upheld by the courts. it has stopped hoefr 50 attacks. they cannot give one example of one abuse over the last 12 years when the program went into effect. so it s been extremely productive, extremely beneficial to the country, and does protect