Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140117:16:42:00
Why is this necessary? that the program grew out of the desire to address a gap identified after 9/11. one of the 9/11 hijackers, khalid almindar, made a phone call from san diego to a known al qaeda safe house in yemen. nsa saw that call, but it could not see that the call was coming from an individual already in the united states. the telephone meta data program under section 215 was designed to map the communications of terrorists so we can see who they may be in contact with as quickly as po...
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