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Possibility of u.s. diplomats talking to other diplomats abroad. there was a worry what they said would be made public some day. this potentially even more damaging because we are talking about very secret information here, not just diplomatic cables but top secret information, intelligence gathering, a real danger for american intelligence activities abroad. >> when you have u.s. ambassadors in allied countries, nato allies, being summoned in by the foreign minister for formal complaints about ...

In our next hour, recently released documents on the jon be nay ramsey case. well break down the new information when we come back. [ horn honks ]

Papers and as you yourself have said, theres still a number of revelations yet to come, maybe many more. so that i think we need to brace ourselves for that. then we have to think -- >> that was a major blunder at the nsa that allowed him to gather and collect and take all this kind of information. has anybody been fired for that? >> i dont know the answer to that question. but its symptomatic of faulty internal controls. you cant give somebody a key to the whole store who has this kind of admin...

Pleitgen. >> reporter: very few details have emerged so far. the german government only came out and said it has information that merkels phone was possibly tapped into by the nsa and they would not say anything else. now, there was that phone call between merkel and barack obama earlier on wednesday when merkel according to the german government finds this unacceptable and stop immediately and wants a treaty between germany and the united states and makes clear the relations between the two cou...

Happen again. the germans have been on the edge for a long time. the government in berlin said that its asked the u.s. government to clarify what sort of intelligence gathering, what sort of spying and espionage it has been conducting in germany about six or seven months ago and so far it has not gotten satisfactory answers from the united states. one of the things that berlin said today, it expects those answers to be forthcoming as fast as possible. merkel is a policy lesion on her cell phone ...

Lot of waiting. if you put that in a book, people put it down in no time. i tried very hard, sarah is my coauthor. all the trade craft in there is very realistic. it driveways me nuts when i see shows where they have cell phones and cia headquarters. no. >> lets get back to real life. first of all, while the government is shut down, that might be twice as long. >> i hope not, but if they want to read it twice and buy it again. >> the real life aspect of it, whats your take on the snowden release...

In helsinki using physical evidence to verify there was a chemical attack and the name of the agent. whats very hard to understand, for me at least, about the administrations position, is they could have waited 7 days, 10 days, whatever and had confirmed evidence that didnt depend on us believing the administration or the u.s. intelligence community but was authenticated by a group of very professional, hard-working inspectors and two analytical labs that are certainly not under u.s. control and...

Destroyers positioned in the eastern mediterranean, u.s. military says its ready to attack if given the order. we have a little bit of animation that shows for you where some of these ships are, these destroyers. retired four star general keen is a fox news military analyst and we have an animation that shows where our assets are being positioned but most of us probably would not know where those assets are and a lot of time they are at sea so how significant are these moves, really? >> the fact...

Be feeling the heat from the nsa leaker edward snowdens revelations about what the intelligence knows about your e-mail, telephone access. the president outlined a four-point plan to reform intelligence gathering, especially as it touches american citizens. >> first, i will work with congress to pursue appropriate reforms to section 215 of the patriot act. the program that collects telephone records. second, ill work with congress to improve the publics confidence in the oversight conducted by t...

Speaking to reporters today, the white house outlined a four-point plan to reform intelligence gathering, especially as it touches american citizens. >> first, i will work with congress to pursue appropriate reforms to section 215 of the patriot act, the program that collects telephone records. second, ill work with congress to improve the publics confidence in the oversight conducted by the foreign intelligence surveillance court. so specifically, we can take steps to make sure civil liberties ...