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Moscow, which was two years ago, people were complaining about everything, but never -- it was never putins fault. it was always the mayor, the governor, or somebody under putin. putin was somehow exempt from anything that went wrong, but i did notice there was a big demonstration in moscow of young people against the government interfering with the internet, taking away their internet programs, and i think that may be the beginning of something. i think the younger people were happy as long as ...

Prosecutors are charging snowden with theft of government property, unauthorized communication and classified intelligence with an unauthorized person. two of those fall under the espionage act. the process of trying to bring him back from hong kong underway. snowden is the former contractor that admitted leaking highly classified documents about the phone and internet programs, documents he acquired while working for boost alan hamilton. the newspaper published some of those. glenn greenwald ob...

Him back from hong kong underway. snowden is the former contractor that admitted leaking highly classified documents about the phone and internet programs, documents he acquired while working for booz alan hamilton. the newspaper published some of those. glenn greenwald obtained some of the documents and joins me by the phone and jeffrey toobin. glenn, i know you think he did patriotism of revealing those papers. what do you make of this? >> its the absolutely atrocious record of the treatment o...

That admitted leaking highly classified documents about the phone and internet programs, documents he acquired while working for boost alan hamilton. the newspaper published some of those. glenn greenwald obtained some of the documents and joins me by the phone and jeffrey toobin. glenn, i know you think he did patriotism of revealing those papers. what do you make of this? >> its the absolutely atrocious record of the treatment of whistle blowers and leakers. the espionage exact is designed to ...

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Intends to stay in the city. today, people there held a small rally supporting him as his ties overseas tighten. some question if snowden will defect. here is cnns brian todd. >> reporter: top u officials are now openly worried, will edward snowden defect? does he have a relationship with a foreign government and is there more to this story? >> clearly, there is. we are going to make sure there is a thorough scrub of what his china connections are. >> reporter: a former senior nsa official and a...

Past from what they knew about them. i dont think anybody knew publicly how widespread the data collection is. but how is prism, how are prism and blarney different? thats a separate program. >> well first on the database program, youre right, this isnt new. this is "u.s.a. today" article from may 2006. i remember i was on capitol hill when this came out. the headline is, nsa has massive database of americans phone calls. this story has been around eight years and its been carefully overseen by ...

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Programs that have been revealed in the last couple of weeks involving the mass collection of u.s. phone records and this program to look at internet programs overseas, both of them were enacted after james comey left the justice department as deputy attorney general. nonetheless, he was a strong supporter of the patriot act, the law that was passed in the days after 9/11, and its one of the authorities in the patriot act that is in a sense the seeds of the phone program, although as i say, it w...