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Aired out on our public air waves, others are learning exactly how america defends itself. also for the first time, clapper named the internet monitoring program that the agency uses. its called prism. but until now the program had only been named in media reports. clapper also emphasized that the government is monitoring internet activity of foreign nationals only. its a practice, he says, thats been okd by congress. they only collect data from tech companies with a court order and knowledge of...

♪ ♪ >> jamie: fox news alert. confirmed that the obama administration is likely to open a criminal investigation into the leaks that revealed widespread government surveillance of millions of americans phone calls, their internet activity and more. steven yates a former deputy assistant to vice president cheney, ceo of d.c. international and he spent the first five years of his esteemed career at the nsa. great to see you. what about this news that there will be like lay criminal investigati...

We found out a day later, internet providers, google said we dont have any knowledge about this. how could that possibly be? if we cant trust them to be transparent and when they say, no one knows who you are talking to or content of television conversations and said limited amount of information they are getting, how can we trust them on that? civil liberties standpoint its extremely disappointing. >> megyn: its not at all what the left on mind when they put him in office. >> the thing is alan ...

Nine internet providers broadly understood. if i read the story collectly it seems to be a content collection and analysis program which makes it different in some respects from the program, nsa program that had been discussed concerning verizon. prism as i understand it taps allows the ngsa to see into your internet activity and what exactly it is you are doing. whereas the verizon program.... >> chris: extracting photographs, emails, documents and collection logs. it doesnt explicitly say cont...

>> its unfair to the american people. there are many questions, what did this young man do when he went back to russia and was there for an extended period of time. what was the internet activity? why didnt we know his internet activities? why did we ignore the warnings of the russians, even though they didnt repeat the warnings or us additional information. the fact that nay warned us i think should have demanded additional scrutiny. and we should assume nothing. we should assume we need a thor...

>> its unfair to the american people. there are many questions, what did this young man do when he went back to russia and was there for an extended period of time. what was the internet activity? why didnt we know his internet activities? why did we ignore the warnings of the russians, even though they didnt repeat the warnings or us additional information. the fact that nay warned us i think should have demanded additional scrutiny. and we should assume nothing. we should assume we need a thor...

"washington post," clapper was candid -- there are restrictions on how intrusive we can be in monitoring u.s. citizens. does the public want us to be more intrusive in monitoring their internet activity? listening to their cell phone calls, monitoring their travel overseas? do you want us to do this to you? with the white house, homeland security committee due to hold its first congressional committee hearing on attacks, the debate is likely to intensify, the obama administrations response to ho...

Modus operandi. >> there was an organized jihad and radicalized people coming over here and now theres self-radicalization, punk kids, one was a kid, one was a grown man doing some sort of science experiment almost in their kitchen. >> obviously a very lethal and horrible and tragic science experiment. but i mean nia has a point here. is that you look at the photo of the kids and the three potential accomplices and they look like kids. >> they do. >> you hear about the plotting and the planning....

Terrorist plots before their execution, it was a little-noticed but significant change in the way the fbi did business. given that, that the fbi can act on rather thin evidence, could they have actually done anything in this particular plot? >> its really not clear that they could have. we do have a very forward-leaning fbi now and those guidelines were part of a philosophy that said, they should be able to act again thin evidence, tips, suspicions, that would not have cleared the bar previously...

Anything regarding being released. all i got on the inside was man, youre in trouble. man, you tried to kill the president. when i got to christy on the day it was dismissed, i walked up to a screen window and she put her hand up to it and when she did that i just knew it looked good and she said just hold on, we dont have all the information, theres been a turn of events and looks like were going to get you out of here today and this will be dismissed. and thats when i just felt this lifted off...