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Lets get to the testimony today on capitol hill. what did you think about alexander saying that this information had foiled upwards of 50 terror plots? >> i listened to a lot of testimony, actually on this case, listened from beginning to end, i felt no more comfortable at the end than at the beginning. what he is basically saying is we need to connect the dots. problem is to get the dots, theyre going through everybodys records looking for the connection, algorithms on computers that say this f...

From my perspective, a sound legal process that we all work together as a government to protect our nation and our civil liberties and privacy. ironically, the documents that have been released so far show the rigorous oversight and compliance our government uses to balance security with civil liberties and privacy. let me start by saying that i would much rather be here today debating this point than trying to explain how we failed to prevent another 9/11. it is a testament to the ongoing teamw...

Think occurred in part. some of those dots were in the united states. the intelligence community was not ability to between operatives and the u.s. following the 9/11 commission, which investigated the intelligence communitys failure to detect 9/11, congress passed the p.a.t.r.i.o.t. act. section 215 as its been interpreted and implied helps the government close that gap by enabling the detection of telephone contact between terrorists overseas and operatives within the united states, as directo...

Inform that debate. these were approved by the administration, congress and the courts. from my perspective, a sound legal process that we all work together as a government to protect our nation and our civil liberties in privacy. ironically, the document that have been released so far show the rigorous oversight and compliance our government uses to balance security with civil liberties and privacy. let me start by saying that i would much rather be here today debating this point than trying to...

The event of september 11th, 2001 occurred in part because of a failure on the part of our government to connect those dots. some of those dots were in the united states. the intelligence community was not able to connect the dots between phone calls between the operatives and u.s. and al qaeda terrorists overseas. following the t9/11 which investigated the failure to detect 9/11, congress passed the patriot act. section 215 of that act, as it has been interpreted and implied, helps the governme...

None of them are people lose confidence in the data and the old crying wolf syndrome, right? >> according to angel even big brother faces road blocks. if the government wants to track you, its ability to gather all sorts of private data and to analyze it at massive facilities like this nsa data center still under construction in utah will allow them to do it. >> there is no human reading going through and looking at your e-mails. it is possible. it is only going to look at things the computer th...

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...

None of them are people lose confidence in the data and the old crying wolf syndrome, right? >> according to angel even big brother faces road blocks. if the government wants to track you, its ability to gather all sorts of private data and to analyze it at massive facilities like this nsa data center still under construction in utah will allow them to do it. >> there is no human reading going through and looking at your e-mails. it is possible. it is only going to look at things the computer th...

People? >> well, you know, the originalists say you go back to 1793 and say what the framers had in mind. the framers couldnt have contemplated dna banks, we have to ask ourselves where that line should be drawn. now where i draw the line is externality versus internality. i dont want the government to know what my dna says about my jeanet genetics. i am less concerned with them taking pictures of me walking down the street without knowing that i made a phone call here or there. that maybe the l...

None of them are people lose confidence in the data and the old crying wolf syndrome, rightng to angel even big brother faces road blocks. if the government wants to track you, its ability to gather all sorts of private data and to analyze it at massive facilities like this nsa data center still under construction in utah will allow them to do it. >> there is no human reading going through and looking at your e-mails. it is possible. it is only going to look at things the computer throws out as ...