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Wednesday, house arms services chairman buck mckeon spoke about a briefing that detailed the damage done to the u.s. by nsa leaker edward snowden. >> no matter what opinion the american people hold of the nsas data collection programs, they would be shocked and outraged to learn that a substantial amount of the information has nothing to do with the nsa. the damage he has done to our military and national defense programs is not the mark of a whistleblower. he has given our enemies an edge and p...

People being hurt by the presidents signature health care law and democrats will push in the other direction and move on to other legislative issues like put focus on immigration. 2014 will definitely be a decisive year in that way. jon: all right. were glad youre here to begin watching it with us. it will be an interesting election year. rebecca berg, from the "washington examiner", shira center from "roll call." thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. jenna: some new details today on nsa l...

Hold. now the government does have time for an appeal, jenna. jenna: and, peter what has the reaction been from the justice department? >> reporter: jenna, they say this is one ruling from one judge but that in fisa court, 35 rulings from 15 judges have said these data collection programs are okay. the justice department officially says weve seen the opinion and are studying it. we believe the program is constitutional as previous judges have found. we have no further comment at this time. the n...

Under fire again for its spying programs. today the obama administration declassified and released three documents outlining the phone and internet data collection programs. right before that agencys deputy director faced tough questions on capitol hill about edward snowden. >> for a 29-year-old school dropout to come in and take out massive, massive amounts of data, it is obvious that there werent adequate controls. has anyone been fired? >> not yet. >> who double checked snowden? >> there are ...

And likely getting him those asylum travel documents. the fact that assange is front and center has apparently irritated the ecuadorian president among others, harris. >> harris: one of the points that cannot be missed is the fact that edward snowden brought to the surface so much information about spying on americans that we didnt know before. and now i understand some senators are demanding answers about that nsa surveillance. >> well, harris, this letter from 26 senators, the vast majority ar...

Records, covering the internet metadata according to the newspaper. the program recorded email and ip addresses which can be analyzed to know an individuals interest and pattern of behavior on the web, adding it was shut down two years ago. while not addressing the new investigation of domestic surveillance for a program that doesnt exist anymore, the nsa director said the system is more secure. >> theres clearly actions that were taken to prevent a future leak. weve taken thats right off the ge...

>> yes, sir, i believe they can. we have a fairly comprehensive speus them at the nsa. whether we collect anything under this authority or some other we bind to that communication where we got it, how we got it, what authority we got it under so we know precisely whether we can retain it for some fixed period of time. and if it simply ages off in the case of the vr fiza data we talked about the a the the expiration of the five years it is taken out. >> the representatives from the nsa are answer...

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Have done with that information. but to me, the issue is this, that i think administration needs to give the american people more credit. i think we should have a much more publicebate about private programs, not giving out detailed information but leveling with the american public about what kind of information that administration thinks it needs. my problem is that so much of the war on terror is being conducted behind closed doors, whether it be the drone program or whether it be these nsa da...

In some kind of terrorist activity but what risk and damage to the average americans privacy do you think? >> well, clearly, the information that they have gleamed from this program has led to bad guys being stopped from doing bad things. i think its probably a little over reach to say that we would have stopped 9/11 if this program was in place. we dont know what people would have done with that information. but to me, the issue is this, that i think administration needs to give the american pe...