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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...

>> 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 line we c...

Lesbian or transgendered and this would stop that. when i read the transcript of this, and im not altogether sure that he knew where it was going. sometimes you read the transcripts and you think, maybe he didnt know where this was. >> connecting the dots. >> i think that he is against it, but i am not sure he totally got what he was talking about. >> well, we are standing by to see bill clinton and chris christie taking the stage and we will check in that when it happens and see if they talk ab...

Congressional oversight as well as judicial oversight. president obama said that in fact has been taking place over many years since this program has been underway. the problem is we are getting conflicting information about the nature of this program, we are getting conflicting information about what members of congress have been told about it, how -- whether or not it is a massive expansion of the existing program under the bush years and who this leaker actually is. jon: and we are getting co...

People in those agencies are going to be misusing that information. >> but piers, heres the issue. its one thing if youre connecting dots with known terrorists. i think thats where americans would support this program. its the total just blanket of communications of almost everything that americans have a problem with. because we should not be treated like terrorists or be treated like the chinese. i think most americans, for example, they know that the nsa is going to be monitoring and trying t...

Bill: fema provided millions in aid to the town and its residents. but the movehem from getting additional help. the leaders are working to appeal that decision. martha: there is a dangerous storm system moving across the country. its the aim one that hit the midwest. cities along the east coast are bracing for severe weather. >> reporter: a rough day for travel across a lot of the east coast. yesterday it was exactly where you see this line of severe storms. the red dots or tornadoes were repor...

Might be able to get ahold of it? >> no, shep, until they can hold a fire line for at least 24 hours, containment isnt part of theyre vocabulary because the weather is making all the decisions. heres more. >> we are watching the weather conditions very closely. and wind is probably our number one threat. it is what has been the game-changer. it is what has changed the conditions. i mean, i dont know any other word to describe it but very dynamic. reporter: el paso county sheriff says the strateg...

And have expectations of privacy and theyre not connecting the dots. >> lets move on to the -- "the oath" out in paperback and your provocative point in "the oath" is barack obama is conservative when it comes to the court and roberts is the progressive, i guess you could say -- >> the change agent. >> or at least the change agent. that, of course, though, that theory got challenged by the affordable care act where suddenly roberts seemed to be an institutional conservative at the very least. >>...

Well understood. that was part of the authority that congress gave to the administration subject to the supervision of a court and sung to congressional oversight. we want to make sure we have the right balance between keeping americans safe and your privacy rights. so how that information is used is really the question. and thats where oversight is critically important, both in the courts and in congress. >> what could be more transparent? >> well, i think we -- the process of how we go about p...

The computer throws out as interesting or important. >> reporter: then as often happens, it is the interaction between cold data and live humans where the synergy takes place. it is failures to connect the dots before the boston bombings where investigators misread the data, it was a different story when the authorities had a more specific idea what to look for. they combed through countless photographs and hours of footage, not only allowing them to zero in on the bombers but to avoid false lea...