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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 addressing what edward snowden is saying and what our story is saying which is that they have the power to collect content. they collect a lot of it as they describe it inadvertently. and the crucial difference between now and before 9/11 and before the programs that have succeeded in recent years is that they don...

Im so revved up about the irs and james rosen incident and benghazi i cant see straight. but we got to divorce the actions of the white house and the actions of the political figures inside the administration from the great work that is being done by the intelligence and law enforcement communities to keep this country safe and we have foiled plots since 9/11 using tools like this. i dont have any specific operational awareness of this program but i would be he cautious about lumping what the ad...

Im so revved up about the irs and james rosen incident and benghazi i cant see straight. but we got to divorce the actions of the white house and the actions of the political figures inside the administration from the great work that is being done by the intelligence and law enforcement communities to keep this country safe and we have foiled plots since 9/11 using tools like this. i dont have any specific operational awareness of this program but i would be he cautious about lumping what the ad...

Not active monitoring of u.s. communications. >> one of the issues thats come up is the matter of credibility. senator wyden a member of the intelligence committee last march had this exchange with director of national intelligence, general clapper. >> does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions of hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir. >> it does not? >> not witnessingly. wittingly. there are cases where it could inadvertently perhaps collect. but not wittingly. >> now appa...

Past from what they knew about them. i dont think anybody knew publicly how widespread the data collection is. but how is prism, how are prism and blarney different? thats a separate program. >> well first on the database program, youre right, this isnt new. this is "u.s.a. today" article from may 2006. i remember i was on capitol hill when this came out. the headline is, nsa has massive database of americans phone calls. this story has been around eight years and its been carefully overseen by ...

Criticized for following, what was your feeling inside, your own personal beliefs. you think it was fair? >> i thought it was unfair because the hits she took, i didnt think that was appropriate. she was going on what we had given her. that was our collective best judgment at the time as to what should have been said. >> thank you. >> so, general clapper says he thinks the attacks on ambassador rice was unfair. do you have an argument with his ver as when it he made those statements? >> there wa...

General clapper, they both initially thought this began as a protest. so unless the chairman is saying theyre part of a vast conspiracy involving the state department, it hard to see how this makes much sense. >> the president was pressed in the press conference he had last week and whether or not there was an intimidation factor going into whether or not state department officials felt pigeon holed into not speaking out. we have this transcript that has just been released to nbc news and the go...

Whether its the intelligence community or our military or our men and women in uniform are demoralized by the threats of sequester and lack of pay and support. and the military health care insurance program is threatened to the tune of about $3 billion, as are chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general dempsey warned in a hearing just about the same time as general clapper. so the ripple effects for our entire economy, our social and political fabric are profound and far-reaching, and thats w...

Make your mortgage payments. >> it really is a profoundly significant question, lawrence, and im so glad that youve raised it, because we really need the best and the brightest to go into public service, whether its the intelligence community or our military or our men and women in uniform are demoralized by the threats of sequester and lack of pay and support. and the military health care insurance program is threatened to the tune of about $3 billion, as are chairman of the joint chiefs of sta...

>> what i hear you saying is that the cia, or other agencies, there are -- >> 16 intelligence agencies. >> they may have different assessments. >> all the intelligence comes together and its analyzed. >> is there a national intelligence estimate on this specific sensitive issue? >> there have been assessments it the past. i cant get into the classified information. what i can say, as a result, all the intelligence comes together, and then the director of national intelligence coordinates that, g...