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A private confidential top secret session because we did not want the enemy to know what we were doing and what we were capable of. what general clapper was trying to do, first, he didnt expect a question like that would be asked in public, because of its top secret nature, and he tried to give an answer which he thought was the least offensive, where he would be protecting the men and women of the nsa and those -- and protect the programs we are using to stop al qaeda. theres nothing in this fo...

Commission or this group is caving in to political correctness. the fact is there are no americans that have had their rights violated, no ones calls -- no american citizens calls are being listened to unless theyre in contact with terrorists. no ones name or address is on file. this is a phony issue and when i say someone like rand paul, a member of my party, somehow comparing snowden and general clapper, what is happening to our country when the united states senator compares a traitor with an...

Assassinated will someone rid me of this meddling priest? >> its funny you brought that up. the thought occurred to me within the last 48 hours while watching the press coverage. no, its not that. general clapper and general alexander commented in their appearance before the house intelligence committee about the national intelligence priorities framework. you huddle in the west wing in the sit room at the cabinet level every six months hammering out intelligence priorities. countries down the s...

Within the last 48 hours while watching the press coverage. no, its not that. general clapper and general alexander commented in their appearance before the house intelligence committee about the national intelligence priorities framework. you huddle in the west wing in the sit room at the cabinet level every six months hammering out intelligence priorities. countries down the side, topics across the top. where those two vectors meet, you put a number. if the number is one or two, thats a really...

She doesnt know why. after six decades of funs and parodies, is "mad" magazine still hooking kids on satire? good afternoon. welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. top intelligence official in the country and the director of the nsa are testifying on capitol hill as we speak. when pressed about report the nsa has been tapping the phones of foreign leaders, even allies, director of national intelligence, james clapper said thats long been par for the course plans and intentions of foreign lea...

The question is, is this justified? i think the president has indicated this is not consistent with our values and my guess is that while he may not say as an absolute, it wont happen again, there would have to be extraordinary circumstances to justify any kind of a tap on a foreign leader of an allied nation. >> the chair of the senate intelligence committee, democrat senator dianne feinstein, who has been a defender of the nsa, she says she is now totally opposed to spying on u.s.al ice and de...

From capitol hill. moments from now general james clapper and general keith alexander will both be giving their opening statements on nsa programs. over at the white house the obama administration is navigating through rough political waters. joining me now mark mazzetti national security correspondent for "new york times" and chris cillizza nbc contributor and host of "in play." i was talking to congressman schiff on the committee and he said theres going to have to be a narrowing of the nsas r...

A single slide released by edward snowden and said a few things about it. one, not the nsa listening in on this call data. it was the nsa, the u.s. and all of its nato partners. the cold data had nothing do with the spanish and french but a collection of call data listen -- listen to it in a number of countries in support of military operations. he said it is completely false. one, this was the msa doing this and, two, it was european citizens, french, and spanish citizens that were being listen...

President obama was told in 2010 that the nsa was spying. tapping the phone of german chancellor angela americael and letting it go on. they press whether the white house would have been told foreign leaders were being tapped. >> would it, in fact, any value of that information find its way to at least the national security council in the white house? >> it certainly could. it may not have position specifically related to a specific selector or any specific collection target. what they would see...

Intelligence, general clapper, rejecting what he would call an overcorrection that the opening of the hearing mike rogers, the chairman, also rejected bipartisan plan filed today, which would restrict the massive collection of telephone records of what they call meta data by the intelligence agencies. a year after hurricane and superstorm sandy, communities across connecticut and as well as new jersey and new york are rebuilding from the storm. governor, thanks for your patience in joining us. w...