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Wanted secret or is your allegiance to the constitution in which case you consider him a hero for telling americans their privacy is being violated by the u.s. government. throughout american history back to benjamin franklin, any time people exposed information that their government was oppressive wanted secret they were called traitors but history views them as he ros and patriots. >> lets talk about a republican senator the a block bringing a lawsuit saying the nsa has to stop the data mining...

>> edward snowden is like an it gets better ad for geeks. >> what the message is is that you should leak to get women. >> well obviously the guy is a big celebrity now. but she a phony. did you see his christmas message? >> yes. >> a, it was boring. it was boring with a stupid open collar shirt. oh i have an open collar shirt. >> dumb sweater. >> it was just gross. and then he is giving slogans. he said, oh, you know, america, if you want to know our secrets, just ask next time. it is disgusting...

>> some are calling him a patriot who deserves to be pardoned. s say hes a traitor and deserves to be brought to justice. one thing is clear. his actions forever changed surveillance practices in this country and likely around the globe. joining me to share his thoughts on this and more is the journalist who helped expose practices of data mining and gathering of information on americans -- television, text and e-mail information. you heard a sound bite. it doesnt fall left or right. liberal or ...

He exposed things the government wanted secret or is your allegiance to the constitution in which case you consider him a hero for telling americans their privacy is being violated by the u.s. government. throughout american history back to benjamin franklin, any time people exposed information that their government was oppressive wanted secret they were called traitors but history views them as he ros and patriots. >> lets talk about a republican senator the a block bringing a lawsuit saying th...

He exposed things the government wanted secret or is your allegiance to the constitution in which case you consider him a hero for telling americans their privacy is being violated by the u.s. government. throughout american history back to benjamin franklin, any time people exposed information that their government was oppressive wanted secret they were called traitors but history views them as he ros and patriots. >> lets talk about a republican senator the a block bringing a lawsuit saying th...

>> some are calling him a patriot who deserves to be pardoned. s say hes a traitor and deserves to be brought to justice. one thing is clear. his actions forever changed surveillance practices in this country and likely around the globe. joining me to share his thoughts on this and more is the journalist who helped expose practices of data mining and gathering of information on americans -- television, text and e-mail information. you heard a sound bite. it doesnt fall left or right. liberal or ...

Inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly. >> so given what we now know, that appears to be a false statement given to a senate panel. should james clapper be prosecuted? >> lying to congress is a felony. i dont think we can pick and choose the law. you have people like james clapper and others beating the table saying we want to put edward snowden in jail for life, yet they dont want the law applied to themselves. the law has to be applied equally. thats one of the tenets of american jur...

Publish this online. i think thats a great thing. your thoughts on that. >> well, major shareholders have been pushing verizon, at&t, to disclose how many requests are theyve getting from the government? so what verizon and now at&t decided was, okay, this makes sense. lets let the general public know. so, online, once or twice a year, they will publish what the government has asked for. >> what the governmented a consider. talk about what exactly -- from your perspective, the general public bel...

To be about the slicing and dicing of you and your identity and your data and is it secure and who can look at it and where does it go. these companies make their livings off of harvesting your data. the president is in trouble because they have been reharvesting the harvested data. and for 300 million, 310 million americans, who was their advocate in that room? i think its a fair question given the breach of trust that exists now between this administration on this issue, on health care, on oth...

When the discussion was supposed to be about the slicing and dicing of you and your identity and your data and is it secure and who can look at it and where does it go. these companies make their livings off of harvesting your data. the president is in trouble because they have been reharvesting the harvested data. and for 300 million, 310 million americans, who was their advocate in that room? i think its a fair question given the breach of trust that exists now between this administration on t...