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Council had been briefed and saying president obama did not know that america i wills phone had been tapped. translate that for us whether he intended to or not clapper gave president obama some cover there. as he said, presidents read this kind of intelligence all the time. they are looking at the output. they may not necessarily know what the source of that output is. so it is plausible that the president might have read something that resulted from the contents of america i wills conversation...

British? >> i asked this of a former official yesterday. i was being -- he said, sure. they probably go after it. i dont know if they would have success. nsa has advantages. but one of the points that mike rogers made in this hearing, and clapper and alexander, in effect, everyones hands are dirty. they say, yes, we are the target of foreign intelligence operations but also say that we go after not only our allies but -- the leaders of our allies. used the term leadership intentions are both a r...

The head of national intelligence general clapper testified last week that 70% of the cias analysts are laid off, furloughed, rather. how do you have an intelligence community where 70% of the analysts are furloughed. >> youve got these fundamental basis of american power, military, homeland security and our diplomats. all of them need to be out working and deployed. you cant afford to have 800,000 federal employees out of work and expect this country to help americans overseas, to run those emb...

Big. they chuckled and he said, but i am pretty good. then he took a slap at colin powell, his republican ally saying im still having to deal with the problems colin left as a result of his presentation at the u.n. security council. he also said something that was incredible. bill clintons four-day 1998 bombing of iraq was so ek effective it destroyed all the wmd in iraq. gee, i wish president clinton told senator clinton she didnt need to vote. >> this is a side note. why do i believe iraqs wmd...

The moment that all of this started to turn to the russia plan and, oh, it looks like theres a possibility of a way out of a military strike here because we might have a negotiation on our hand. you were in a briefing with secretary kerry, susan rice, secretary hagel, general clapper and general dempsey on this issue and it sound like in that room nobody thought there was any chance of any breakthrough in negotiations. is that right? >> well, i think congressman, i think it was adam schiff asked...

Youre saying we need changes in law. what changes in law do we need that will protect us? talk about this new story were hearing about photographing every piece of mail that goes to the postal service. >> shocking. every week theres more revelations. our specific demands, three very simple demands. first, there should be a congressional investigation to tell the american people what information, private information of americans are they collecting. in terms of changing the laws, we think section...

Going to be very difficult. we have to use every bit of diplomatic leverage we have right now. the president should be in contact with putin saying that this whole reset button with russia, thats off if putin allows him to leave the country and doesnt send him back to the united states. iceland is a nato ally. we should take whatever action we have to. as far as cuban and venezuela, thats a haven for refugees from american justice. its going to be difficult. also i think its important for the am...

>> congressman hueskamp, lets go back to general clapper. >> does the nsa collect any type of data at all on a million or hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir. >> it does not. >> not wittingly. there are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly. >> now, before i get to his clarification, was that a lie, congressman hu elskamp, in light of what we know? it sure looks and sounds like it. we do not have to sacrifice our individual liberties.

What hes saying is there are authorities that hes talking about something technically called faa 702 authorities. if you have that authority and you are cleared for the prism compartment, then you literally had the technical power to do so. when general clapper says the idea that were reading everybodys e-mail and trolling through it voyeuristically hes not even addressing what edward snowden is saying and he is not addressing what our story is saying which is that they have the power to collect...

I mean the systems exist. what hes saying is there are authorities that hes talking about something technically called faa 702 authorities. if you have that authority and you are cleared for the prism compartment, then you literally had the technical power to do so. when general clapper says the idea that were reading everybodys e-mail and trolling through it voyeuristically hes not even addressing what edward snowden is saying and he is not addressing what our story is saying which is that they...