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>> a lot of people who used to work in government. go back and forth between the government and private contractors. what happened after september 11th, a huge explosion in intelligence gathering. the creation of the department of homeland security and the director of national intelligence. consolidated a lot of different intelligence operations and tried to break down the wall between intelligence and law enforcement so problematic in not connecting the dots for 9/11. but in the process, thousa...

Have the data, it is another to understand its significance. >> when we data mine, were teaching the computer how to go through large amounts of data. >> reporter: gary angel founded sip fon i can, one of the most experienced players in the data mining game, it was recently acquired by ernst and young. >> i am using a tool, this collects information on things like twitter. >> reporter: a big part of what angel does deals with scanning the web and analyzing data, not unlike what government agenci...

Work in government. go back and forth between the government and private contractors. what happened after september 11th, a huge explosion in intelligence gathering. the creation of the department of homeland security and the director of national intelligence. consolidated a lot of different intelligence operations and tried to break down the wall between intelligence and law enforcement so problematic in not connecting the dots for 9/11. but in the process, thousands, hundred dollars -- hundred...

Maybe access to one level of the program and you have to assume theyre abusing and breaking the law as snowden did to dive in to it to the level to cause any problem. but, you know, six weeks ago the media and public were saying, you guys in intelligence, how could you have missed the boston bombing and not connecting the dots and now the same people, many of them saying how come you were collecting these particular dots? you cant have it both ways. you have to either allow them to collect the i...

And how many other people know about it, too? as far back as 2010 the "washington post" reported a third of all people with top-secret clearances in the country dont work for the government. they work for contractors. in january, the director of national intelligence reported that more than 480,000 contractors have top secret clearance. another 580,000 have confidential or secret clearance. that means more than 1 million contractors now, people working for private companies, have clearance to se...

Political points here, i think it is still productive that people are talking about the issue and through the noise i think we are getting a signal of whether programs like this -- >> im all for the debate, richard. however, i do think it is a difficult position for certain republicans, right? because -- >> just slightly. >> there was you hue and cry last summer about leaks, prosecuting leaks, our national security has been compromised. now post-stand with rand, civil liberties are sort of a la ...

Cannot -- the problem is it is the right thing to do and it is how we connect the dots and just because its the right thing to do doesnt mean it will be done right and what people cant see is this. what they cant see is its conflation with the irs, horrible, horrible. >> bus abuse of private liberti and privacy. so you cant take these things in a vacuum. in this obama care and all of the rest are not just scandals and the intrusiveness and the overreach of the government, people, of course, the ...

This ever could happen. but in the interest of public debate, i think its incredibly brave and courageous. now, is -- are his motives pure? i have no idea. in many cases it is irrelevant. what is right is to have this policy debate, because frankly, you have members of congress who are acting in incredibly hypocritical ways, saying we didnt know anything about this. they only just voted to reauthorize the very things they say they knew nothing about. where is congress in this. where is the secre...

Cannot -- the problem is it is the right thing to do and it is how we connect the dots and just because its the right thing to do doesnt mean it will be done right and what people cant see is this. what they cant see is its conflation with the irs, horrible, horrible. >> bus abuse of private liberti and privacy. so you cant take these things in a vacuum. in this obama care and all of the rest are not just scandals and the intrusiveness and the overreach of the government, people, of course, the ...

Cannot -- the problem is it is the right thing to do and it is how we connect the dots and just because its the right thing to do doesnt mean it will be done right and what people cant see is this. what they cant see is its conflation with the irs, horrible, horrible. >> bus abuse of private liberti and privacy. so you cant take these things in a vacuum. in this obama care and all of the rest are not just scandals and the intrusiveness and the overreach of the government, people, of course, the ...