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Fresher. [ laughter ] >> brian: can you send over your middle linebacker to get it back? break some glass? >> steve: meanwhile, lets talk about putin. the president of the united states, ours, is going to be meeting with putin at the g8 summit in over in ireland. >> brian: that will be frosty, by the way. especially on syria. >> steve: it will be frosty for this point as well because apparently during the g-20 in 2009, who knew the nsa, our great big spy organization, apparently has a unit in th...

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Something that never existed in american history before, and that is a surveillance state. the infrastructure that, basically using software technology and data mining and eavesdropping, very sophisticated technology to create an infrastructure that a police state would have, and thats what really should concern americans, because we havent had a full national debate about the creation of a massive surveillance state and surveillance infrastructure that if we had some radical change in our polit...

Not unlike what government agencies try to do. sift through the noise of all of the worlds electronic communications and isolate the fragments of troubling data and then connect the dots before a threat materializes. and recent revealations show they are pushing to expand their capacity to do it. >> what do you think would surprise people most about data mining? what dont they know? >> i think how clumsy it is and how much work goes into getting even the simplest conclusions out of the date. i t...

Not unlike what government agencies try to do. sift through the noise of all of the worlds electronic communications and isolate the fragments of troubling data and then connect the dots before a threat materializes. and recenthow they are pushing to expand their capacity to do it. >> what do you think would surprise people most about data mining? what dont they know? >> i think how clumsy it is and how much work goes into getting even the simplest conclusions out of the date. i think there is a...

There. enough with it. its really not about him ultimately, its about what he revealed. well figure it out in the wash what kind of human being he is. but know up until that moment, hes going to get trashed by everybody in government, and the establishment and media in washington. >> we should really be wary of this policy of deflection, the idea that the electors look at this. and the fact that this program exists and the different things it can be used for. theres a powerful piece in "the nati...

>> right. >> is the intelligence community trying to do damage control here? >> i think they are trying to clarify to help people better understand what the real issue is. the data mining were talking about is like taking a hundred million records a day from the phone company and putting them in a warehouse. if some issue comes up, go to the particular file, pull it off the shelf, and take a look at someone, some particular number to do an investigation. so, you know, no one is in a position to ...

Shipments to syrian rebels. well have a complete report at the top of the hour. take a chill pill, america. why dont you take a chill pip. beav it or not, some democrats are telling republicans theyre blowing the irs scandal out of proportion. a new poll says 78% of americans think congress should keep investigating the agencys targeting of conservatives. whos right here? >> the people, eric. even the fbi director doesnt know whats going on. theyre not doing enough. the irs is the only agency ...

Thousands and thousands who are assigned to protect us. if we had other major attacks in the last dozen years, this whole conversation would be a luxury. the american people would expect. if we had major attacks and we werent using data mining as a way to try to identify the needle in a haystack. >> you dont know until you watch it under stress. in the cold war when sovi sovie union was around. we wanted it look different and respect human rights. >> those are -- >> this doesnt happen. >> those ...

>> john, thank you very much. the government is insisting the top secret nsa program records isnt just legal, robert mueller said it could have prevented the september 11 attacks if it was put in place earlier. data mining could have identified one of the 9/11 hijackers and potentially foiled those attacks. >> the 9/11 commission itself indicated that investigations or interrogations of al midhar one he was identified could have evidenced connections to other participants in the 9/11 plot. the...