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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 people more credit. i think we should have a much more public debate about private programs, not giving out detailed information but leveling with the american public about what kind of in...

>> and lenny working for god knows what contractor and pull down numbers and fund find out where people are and have been. >> but you dont know what numbers are attached to. >> believe me, these gnomes can do this kind of stuff. >> thats a fair criticism and thats why sand is squishy. i think it is something that you have to have extreme oversight for. >> overshane, how about the e-mail thing? whistle-blower now in china, i think. is saying that the nsa is taking e-mails. american e-mails and re...

Groups, no data collection programs for americans. issue after issue, the administration has been caught. >> it is not just the obama administration. you cant trust any government agency. >> right exactly. benjamin frankly was right about sacrificing liberty -- >> you have to sacrifice a little bit but you cant have them doing this. >> this is a philosophical argument. i want to get into stuff -- >> it is not philosophical to say there is a pattern of lying to the american people about targeting...

Statute limits the government to those records that are relevant? if theyre reality, that -- relevant under your interpretation means that anything and everything goes, and that is what you didñr in te example you just gave me. >> that congressman, john conyers of michigan, warns we could be on the verge of becoming a surveillance state. last weeks leaks indicate a secret court order lets to the feds pull phone data on millions of verizon customers. now we have new reaction from the white house...

Director testified that, quote. dozens of terrorist events were disrupted, democratic senators ron why den and mark urdahl early critics of these programs saying quote: the house is backing up alexander who claims controversial data collection programs are providing primary investigative leads. >> these programs authorized by congress overseen by congress and federal judges, overseen with internal checks and balances within the executive branch, were found to be directly effective in thwarting t...

Not only the national security agency, but also the fbi. so we can expect be director mueller to be pressed to explain whether he believes the scope of the surveillance and the data collection programs are justified in terms of the number of specific, credible leads that the program has produced, martha. martha: yeah, very good questions, and well look to that in a little while from now. so the head of the nsa, catherine, says he would like to declassify some of this information which could go a...

>> and lenny working for god knows what contractor and pull down numbers and fund find out where people are and have been. >> but you dont know what numbers are attached to. >> believe me, these gnomes can do this kind of stuff. >> thats a fair criticism and thats why sand is squishy. i think it is something that you have to have extreme oversight for. >> overshane, how about the e-mail thing? whistle-blower now in china, i think. is saying that the nsa is taking e-mails. american e-mails and re...

Verify the statement. on accusations of bullying and snowdens extradition, the state department was silent. >> i do not have anything new on it. >> reporter: thursday, a briefing on the national data collection programs, alexander will testify again, but the session is classified and closed to the press. at the bottom of the hour, what kind of digital footprint are you leaving and how much information could someone gather about you in a single day? john roberts with the amazing and troubling a...

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