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>> one of the things, if we could play the congressman. general alexander is going to the hill to do briefings, president obama said everybody in congress knew about this, members of congress are questioning that. listen to this from earlier today. >> broad sweep of the fisa courts order goes well beyond what the patriot act intended, and i know because i helped draft section 215 and it was designed to prevent the nsa from going data mining. >> so andrea, i wanted to ask you about that. the dome...

What do you make of the leaks that he made to "the guardian" and the "washington post"? >> here we have a situation where clear proof has been offered to something that i and many other technical civil rights campaigners have been speaking about over the last five years and that the oversight of this process is done in secret, the policy is secret. its not a case of looking at a particular suspect and deciding to apply surveillance to them as we once did in the past, but rather, a just bulk, arb...

Many other technical civil rights campaigners have been speaking about over the last five years and that the oversight of this process is done in secret, the policy is secr secret. its not a case of looking at a particular suspect and deciding to apply surveillance to them as we once did in the past, but rather, a just bulk, arbitrary driftnet phishing across not just americans, but essentially the whole of the human race. >> the u.s. government, as you know, and president obama himself said loo...

The great firewall of china. some of the comments that have been posted on social media here about the data mining in the united states, some people were saying the same thing is happening in china. another is saying theres no privacy on the internet and others are saying you cant trust what google and apple are saying that they dont provide information to governments. people are not so surprised. >> reporter: israelis and palestinians werent that shocked because theres no expectation of privacy...

>> they are not secret in the sense when it comes to telephone calls, every member of congress has been briefed on this program. with respect to all the programs the relevant intelligence committees are fully briefed on these program. martha: several lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are saying the statement is not true. >> we were never told thee were able to find out the information thats been revealed this week. i think its a fiction its a fiction that everybody in congress knows. martha: ...

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Our country. if you have concerns, we are not afraid. why didnt he come before me and brought the information. martha: if this program worked, it should have caught these guys in boston. if you are tracking overseas information, you have got youtube, you have got text messages and cell phone calls. it sounds like it was precisely the time to catch somebody like these guys. its an embarrassment they were not able to catch them when they are doing this extraordinary amount of data mining. >> remem...

40 of those were modified by the court. one was withdrawn by the government. zero were denied. you look at that record. you think is this court really anything more than a rubber stamp? >> in the whole history of the court, its -- >> its absurd. what happens is, for example, if the government goes in and they want to move forward on one of these things before theyve been having this data mining, and now they want to move ahead. they have some kind of suspicion an they go before the fisa court. w...

The chinese quite belligerent. they have been giving the north koreans mobile missile launches for nuclear capable missiles that can hit the united states. president obamas signature policy, the pivot and well see some more aswell. >> gordon chang, thank you for your insight. >> thank you. coming up, mississippi enacts a controversial new measure at fighting teen pregnancy. wesley marshall, and marc davis join us for a fair and balanced debate, next. and the ranking member of the senate judi...

Reports followed that the government is tapping directly into the servers of nine leading internet companies including microsoft, yahoo! google, several of these companies deny theyve handed over any information but the government now admits that for the past six years, its been collecting information on foreigners overseas from the nations largest internet companies. and now a report that data mining may have also included credit card transactions. thats according to reporting in the "wall stre...