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This. the fact is, theres human intervention in this program, and because of that theres going to be human error. but we dont want to throw out the baby with the bath water here. i mean, people are going to pick away at this nsa program and perhaps neuter it, and then were going to have some real problems with counterterrorism. dont forget what weve seen, you know, nsa told us theyve stopped as many as 50 plots because of this program here. the program is under continual oversight. maybe it need...

What have you heard today? >> i think everybody is generally satisfied with this new ruling. they havent gone overboard with it. again, youve got one within the first six and two challenges if need be from the seventh inning on. i think at the end of the day it is now the 21st century and baseball purists just have to get over it. >> its interesting that they finally have decided this how many years after the nfl had instant replay, the nhl. everybody seemed to -- certainly nba. all of a sudden ...

Government. its not the government that gives us the right of privacy. we have that before the government is established. we have to ask ourselves whether or not our government has gotten so far away from the people it doesnt enunderstand some of the basic principles on which this particular government was formed. >> i want to ask you this, congressman, the agency argues theyre run by humans and this is human error. when youre talking about a security agency and our national security, should we ...

Provide much information, but heres what we do know, "the washington post" looked at the months worth of the nsa documents and found that there were 2,776 incidents of unauthorized or illegal oversight. most of which were unintentional, in other words, they made mistakes, as you said, there was human error. for instance, they plugged in the wrong area code. so they thought that they were overseeing or listening in on a call to egypt but, in fact, it was a 202 area code which was washington, d.c....

But i figured after reading this i can work at the nsa. im not the sharpest tool in the shed. there was one problem with mistakenly tracking calls that were supposed to be in and out of egypt. >> right neil where some guy added 202, which is in and out of washington, dc. now, again, i might have said, wait. but this happened again and again and again, obviously a lot of records, and were supposed to say, stuff like this happens. if you were caught in that, you wouldnt -- >> i wouldnt like it but...

Obstruction -- >> neil: heres one thing we know. overseeing court that kind of supervises them, months later got a lot of this info and said, you know, this is unconstitutional. >> right. >> neil: they didnt like it. >> no. >> neil: thats what we heard about it. we dont know if anything was changed as a result of it, but i was surprised to hear that even the presentation of this was like, sorry, were a little late. >> right. and its computer problems, human error. so sorry, well get it to. this ...

Baseball purists may be thinking say it aint so, but it looks like major league baseball is about to greatly expand the use of instant replay. brian todd has been looking into whats going -- this is historic, brian. this is huge. share the details with our viewers. >> if this goes through, youre going to see something like those nfl challenge flags, the coaches throw on the nfl, those may be on major league baseball fields next year. baseball wants to eliminate the human error calls that cost te...

>> reporter: well, thats right. it was provided, the biggest one was provided by the recent disaster of a train wreck in quebec. part of a town was destroyed, and 47 people were killed last month in a fire triggered by an oil car that exploded. the rail company is pointing to human error, but the investigation continues, and one aspect theyre looking into is whether the oil which came from the bakken fields in north dakota is actually possibly more explosive than other oil fields. >> typically, ...

Just one part of nsa, not the whole nsa, just one part, breaking the law thousands of times per year vindicates the idea that edward snowden was blowing the whistle on very real crimes. the question is, where are the prosecutions? >> were going to get to that. ben ferguson, go. >> i think hes a traitor. and if youre a patriot and a hero, you dont go to a communist country like russia to hide out and beg for your existence to be able to stay there for a year. so i dont think hes a hero. but more ...

The bensons trees and slammed to the ground on the hill. with the asiatic airplane crashing in san francisco and this u.p.s. wide-bodied jet doing the same in birmingham. the number of crashes during landing is becoming worrisome. in the past decade, 46% of all deadly crashes around the world have come during landing. >> if you want to take a look at the concern, its starting to grow when youre getting toward that mark thats more than half of the flight accidents are attributed to, on approach a...