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Conversations. >> john: self-reporting internal audit. congressman kucinich you know and you came out very strongly on this topic the other day that a lot of these violations were not appropriately reported to the foreign intelligence surveillance court and other entities that are supposed to oversee. >> congress largely kept in the dark. the foreign intelligence surveillance court kept in the dark. apparently the president isnt aware. and so when you have are the fourth amendment at stake here....

Of research. >> it takes years and also takes risks. one of the interesting pushbacks on the articles today come from people who say the budget is still $28 billion. that is a lot, more than what any other country invests, but the problem is, if america wants to continue to lead in investing in science, they have to continue their budget. and if we cut the amount of projects that we fund, we are not going to find the needle in the hay stack and the way to make the big discoveries, you have to ma...

An embassy? thats a significant move. >> right. >> difficult and that sends a message that we cant predict these facilities. >> thats what concerns me. feels like a reactive response to these kind of threats after benghazi doing what the president said which was my number one intention is to make sure that we are safe going forward and it doesnt feel like that happened if we are doing unprecedented shutdown of all these embassies. you count me among those conservatives who are are skeptical of t...

Know what it takes to close an embassy? thats a significant move. >> right. >> difficult and that sends a message that we cant predict these facilities. >> thats what concerns me. feels like a reactive response to these kind of threats after benghazi doing what the president said which was my number one intention is to make sure that we are safe going forward and it doesnt feel like that happened if we are doing unprecedented shutdown of all these embassies. you count me among those conservative...

The leaks? >> i think its dead right. general alexander recognized that leaks that indicate anything about the way in which we surveil adversaries leads them immediately to change their tactics and get more alert. i think one of the things general alexander died effectively is demonstrate specifically that both the program to collect telephone billing data and the program to have nonamerican e-mail intercepted are very valuable programs that have led to concrete cases and disruptions of terroris...

If we have information about a terrorist making contact somewhere in the united states, then we have the ability to go into this hay stack and the ability to pick out just two things a phone number and a length of call. nobodys name is there. and there is no address or any issue like that. >> living in san diego, prior to 9/11. those are the guys who drove the plane that crashed into the pentagon, all right. we do not know theyre in san diego. they called a known terrorist facility in the middle...

>> well, ill tell you, we tried starting it, at least locating the point of origin, but it was still too hot for for the first two days. we were finally able to get it cooled down, so we moved our investigators in, and theyre just combing for every needle in a hay stack for lack of a better turn to really pin down where the initial flame took off. jenna: what would be the motivation? i mean, has there been anything thats come up among the conversations so far that have suggested a motivation for...

Attack. what theyre doing now is taking in all of this magnitude of much more data and its making the job much more difficult. theyre making themselves dysfunctional. >> thats to me an important question. were getting so much information. we keep talking about the needle in a hay stack but are we making the hay stack so big well never find the needle. >> technology has changed a great deal and we have programs that can go after the data but i think that the principles that bill outlines are corr...

Attack. what theyre doing now is taking in all of this magnitude of much more data and its making the job much more difficult. theyre making themselves dysfunctional. >> thats to me an important question. were getting so much information. we keep talking about the needle in a hay stack but are we making the hay stack so big well never find the needle. >> technology has changed a great deal and we have programs that can go after the data but i think that the principles that bill outlines are corr...

Attack. what theyre doing now is taking in all of this magnitude of much more data and its making the job much more difficult. theyre making themselves dysfunctional. >> thats to me an important question. were getting so much information. we keep talking about the needle in a hay stack but are we making the hay stack so big well never find the needle. >> technology has changed a great deal and we have programs that can go after the data but i think that the principles that bill outlines are corr...