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Sweeped up thousands of e-mails from americans with absolutely no ties to terrorism. amid growing controversy comes more revelations the national security agency illegally collected tens of thousands of americans e-mails. new declassified documents show the nsa collected nearly 60,000 communications a year for three years ending in to 11, it includes e-mails and other internet activity. the court also said the nsa misrepresented the scope of its effort. >> very disturbing, a national security ag...

Data was being collected that spied on americans. thats first. that was false. the administration, they claimed that spying was limited and it was directed overseas. that turns out to be false. >> yes. heather: and then the president said that the more americans learn about the program the more comfortable they will be. so weve now found out theyre capable of monitoring 75% of internet activity. does that make you more comfortable? >> no, it doesnt make me comfortable at all. it boils down to th...

Try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin® because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. zyrtec® love the air. good morning, welcome back to "early start." classified documents show the nsa collected e-mails by americans not related to terrorism. we get more from chris lawrence. >> reporter: amid growing controversy comes more revelations, the national security agency illegally collected tens of thousands of americans e-mails. newly de...

Years for purposefully giving a baby a lethal injection and possibly killing dozens more may be about to walk free. and all because of a legal leap hole in texas. plus, brand-new disturbing video of one of the free oklahoma teenagers accused of gunning down a college baseball star from australia. his homeland is up in arms over the senseless crime and the unimaginable motive. and if all of that talk of the nsa tracking phone calls and e-mails wasnt enough, wait until you hear about the netwo...

>> all this after edward snowden talks about internet activity. some say government has gone overboard and new controls need to be imposed but defenders of the program point out the data gathered by the n.s.a. only supplies the government with a limited capability. >> the haystack of phone numbers, theres no ability to go back and listen to any of those conversations that occurred at a previous time, is there? >> no. we dont even capture through this any conversation so theres no ability, no pos...

All the child victims identified were removed from the dangerous environments and relocated to safe settings, according to our standards, state regulations and local regulations. >> this is huge news today. joe johns, our crime and justice correspondent, is all over this for us from washington this afternoon. joe, first, how did the fbi track these victims and their captors, their pimps, down? >> brooke, they have state and local partners in law enforcement. and those are the people who know whe...

Can track every phone call, track every internet activity, track your credit card, track your cell phone and if the irs then can have a software package to focus their enforcement on the enemies of the president of the united states, this big brother has gotten creepier than george orwell thought it would ever get. >> we will kick this around. eric, wanted to ask you how after maybe a little time of being apart the mainstream republicans are establishment, and the tea party have a reason to come...

South africa delegation. perhaps no surprise but the details are going to be some of the takeaways as well, don. >> nic, another summit is starting, the g8 summit. is this revelation going to change the flavor of that summit, do you think? >> reporter: it will certainly sour it. we can expect these leaders to take it in their stride and not to get out front and comment on it. ed snowden started out, in all of this, with his stated intent of allowing the american people to realize how much monito...

Intrusion into privacy. but when you put this whole picture together its more than creepy. its beyond the imagination of george orwell. >> yeah. are the new things that we dont know about as broad and general? a bigger fishing expedition than we know? >> think of it as a fishing expedition that has the capability, not necessarily utilizing it all, of tracking all phone records, not necessarily audio, but possibly, all cell phone activity, the movement of it, the internet activity thats there, pu...