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Of it, but im convinced that they adore the spotlight enough theyre going to keep playing the creeping -- creeping this play out to see where it goes, but, you know, this is more -- its more on our shoulders to do the right thing and make sure that were prepared with the candidate that can take her on and defeat her. >> how do the republicans balance having to get to the truth, which i think are important on benghazi, the irs, going after james rosen, lying to congress, not telling the truth to ...

Of it, but im convinced that they adore the spotlight enough theyre going to keep playing the creeping -- creeping this play out to see where it goes, but, you know, this is more -- its more on our shoulders to do the right thing and make sure that were prepared with the candidate that can take her on and defeat her. >> how do the republicans balance having to get to the truth, which i think are important on benghazi, the irs, going after james rosen, lying to congress, not telling the truth to ...

The add a sound legal problem that wes all work together to protect or nation and civil liberties and privacy. ironically the dock show the rigorous let mess how we failed to prevent another 9/11. its a testament of the federal bureau of investigation, and the national security agency, working with our allies and industry partners, that we have been able to connect the dots and prevent more terrorist attacks.

Lived in relative safety and security as a nation. that security is a direct result of the intelligence communitys quiet efforts to better connect the dots and learn from the mistakes that permitted those attacks to occur in 9/11. >> shepard: well, among the mistakes, the so-called 20th hijacker was already in custody before 9/11. the feds could have searched his computers. and investigator requested they do so. the request denied. they never even sought a search warrant. general alexander says ...

Perfect, but my point is are we doing this in the most efficient way possible? >> absolutely. martha: you say why wouldnt we want to, but bob brings up a valid point. the president has told us youre trading off a certain amount of privacy be for protection. now, the question is, is the trade-off working? and i think its, you know, with all due respect to the amazing people who work in our intelligence services, as both these men have pointed out so far, and let me go to bob on this, with all due...

Theres no dots. >> neil: the argue. is they collected way too many damn dots dots dots and went yad the patriot act. you dont buy that. >> not at all. >> what do you think should happen to mr. snowden? >> i think he should be extradited out of china, its an unbelievable coincidence all of this information was revealed just when the president was going to take to task china for their cybersecurity espionage and attack within our governments computer system. so i think that there may have been a l...

Government to connect those dots. some of those dots were in the united states. the intelligence community was not able to connect those domestic dots, phone calls between operatives in the u.s. and al-qaeda terrorists overseas. following the 9/11 commission which investigated the intelligence communitys failure to detect 9/11, congress passed the patriot act. section 215 of that act, as it has been interpreted and applied, helps the government close that gap by enabling the detection of telepho...

George bush weighed in on this. >> and now techniques used to prevent attacks have been disclosed. i dont know if you remember, after 9/11, congress had hearings, right? and you know what the hearings were about? we didnt connect the dots, we didnt have the tools to connect the dots. one of the killers makes a phone call from san diego to somewhere, how come you didnt know? we didnt have the tools. weve got the tools. now the people in congress are saying why are you connecting the dots? it is a...

I contend that im not sure. so thats why i said ten. im not sure that the information gathered in this bulk amount has contributed to connecting the dots in these particular instances. thats what ive got to be convinced of. martha: im going to jump in. general alexander speaking now, lets listen. >> of classified information have resulted in considerable debate in the press about these two programs. the debate has been fueled, as you noted, by incomplete and inaccurate information with little co...

Legal process. financial records. also these programs that were talking about here today. they are all valuable pieces to bring that mosaic together and figure out how these individual are plotting to attack the united states here or whether it is u.s. interest overseas. so every dot is general alexander mentioned, we hear the cliche frequently after 9/11 about connecting the dot. i can tell you as a team and with the committee and american public, we come together to put all these dots together...