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The runway. we just received a photo from our affiliate. you can see how snowy it is in madison tonight. the incident occurred as the plane was taxiing. there are no reported injuries at this time. the passengers are being bussed to the terminal for their safety. our other top story, a major blow to the nsas spying. a judge has ruled that the phone records is unconstitutional. the specific criticism is that the data mining program revealed by nsa leaker edward snowden who actually issued this ...

Good evening. im jake tapper in for erin burnett. were following a breaking story out of wisconsin. a delta flight has slipped off the runway. we just received a photo from our affiliate. you can see how snowy it is in madison tonight. the incident occurred as the plane was taxiing. there are no reported injuries at this time. the passengers are being bussed to the terminal for their safety. our other top story, a major blow to the nsas spying. a judge has ruled that the phone records is uncon...

The research program were separated, were given new cover names, and almost all of them were then shifted over to the management and control of the national security agency. which unbeknownst to everyone in america, most people in america at the time, had been running its own total information awareness program. so tia is shut down publicly and privacy advocates really declared a great victory for this. unbeknownst to them, the work just continued in secret at the nsa and became part of this lar...

Proposed in the wake of 9/11, it got a huge amount of press. total information awareness was the brain child of john poindexter who got his conviction in the iran/contra overturned on appeal. it was a data mining program, access all sorts of digital information from just about anywhere. the idea was that a potential terrorist would leave a digital trail bullet in order to find that trail you had to collect all of the digital information there was. from anywhere and everywhere that you could find...

Total information awareness was the brain child of john poindexter who got his conviction in the iran/continra overturned on appeal. it was a data mining program, access all sorts of digital information from just about anywhere. the idea was that a potential terrorist would leave a digital trail bullet in order to find that trail you had to collect all of the digital information there was. from anywhere and everywhere that you could find it. and the program had this creepy logo of a pyramid with...

National security agency, which unbeknown to everybody was running the program. tia is shut down publicly and they declared a great victory but the work continued in sec relate at the nsa and became part of a larger apparatus that were learning more about now. >> or in other words, the beginning of prison, the data mining program were just learning about. now in the uproar over prism and other nsa revelations, there is a tendency to focus on privacy concerns. is the government reading my faceboo...

Weekend about the importance of backing moderate forces. >> yes. >> a moderate has won in iran. this is important. >> i think this is the wild card in this very complicated middle east puzzle. suddenly, we have in tehran, a key state, driving conflict in syria, a person who, as far as we can tell, has been repudiating the foreign policies of the current government, saying you need to do negotiations more, youre too distant from the west, youre relying on russia and china. it is absolutely fascin...

Something kind of input in any administration to fight this. one thing trust in government is inversely proportional to what the government is trying to do. >> paul: more it expands? >> the less people trust it. so one thing i think president obama has undermined trust something critical like nsa with things like hiring 19,000 irs agents toenforce the affordable care act. people look at that, well, i dont know if how this translates. >> paul: im more troubled by the irs scandal. irs can cease yo...

A government that has wide ear and wider powers. you are saying i dont trust them over here but i trust them over there. that is what makes people uncomfortable. i do think to dans point about them releasing some information that would show people how important this program is, that is very important. last week google released a letter saying, look, we are asking fisa courts to let us put out there more specifically but not entirely what were doing. that would comfort people. >> paul: i dont tru...

His mother in kuwait. >> paul: you are saying the interrogation has been non-existent diminished? >> absolutely. we have the drone strikes, but as they said last month, he wants to reduce them and program scaled back. >> paul: also to use drones he has no know where the terrorists are. >> interrogation helps a lot. >> paul: what about traditional human intelligence spying, you have a double agent inside al-qaeda. do we do it well? >> this is much harder infiltrating kgb during the cold war. >> p...