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The russians? >> i think my colleague said it best, we dont know yet. the fbi yesterday reaffirmed its conclusion that he was acting alone, and so far theres simply no evidence that he was acting at the behest of a foreign government or was cultivated to use somebody elses words, representative mccall said he was cultivated. >> in the meantime, of course, we heard from the president on friday ordering members of his administration, including eric holder to look at a new plan to look at the colle...

Lines saying i want to satisfy the privacy concerns but keep our national security. i think the steps hes taken, especially on neutering this telephone collection program -- >> of meta data which is not listening on phone calls, but if you call joe, your number, his number, how long the call lasted. >> right. he is extending constitutional protections to foreigners saying their privacy concerns are as important as americans privacy concerns. the job is to spy on foreigners. lastly complicating t...

>> jeffrey stone is a professor of law at the university of chicago. he was a member of the five-person nsa review panel appointed by the president and he joins us now. >> hi, milissa. >> hello. the president laid out a laundry list of changes. are you satisfied there will be more transparency at this point? >> absolutely. i think the presidents speech framed the issue very well, endorsed a number of very important reforms and suggested many other reforms will be in the wings. yes, i think this ...

In a speech this morning, the president outlined the steps he planned to take to reform the nsas approach to intelligence gathering. he struck a very careful balance today, stressing the need for surveillance, while recognizing the privacy concerns of citizens. here is om of the reforms the president laid out. the establishment of a panel of privacy advocates who will be permitted to argue before the fisa court on certain cases. in other words, to make a case against the intelligence community i...

Security. we take their privacy concerns into account in policies and procedures. >> that was president obama during his speech on friday. he was outlying the changes in the surveillance program. they ordered new limits in accessing phone records from hundreds of millions of americans. its leading it up to congress to decide who will store the vast accumulation of phone records. joining me now, lynne sweet and congressional reporter, ed o keith. good morning to both of you. lynne, are part of ou...

We will also enable communications providers to make public more information than ever before about the orders that they have received to provide data to the government. this brings me to the program that has generated the most controversy the last few months, the bulk collection of telephone records under section 215. let me repeat what i said when this story first broke, this program does not involve the content of phone calls or the names of people making calls. instead, it provides a record ...

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...

Options for a new approach that can match the capabilities and fill the gaps that the section 215 program was designed to address without the government holding this meta data itself. they will report back to me with options for alternative approaches before the program comes up for reauthorization on march 28th. during this period, i will consult with the relevant committees in congress to seek their views, and then seek congressional authorization for the new program as needed. now the reforms...

Forms. he talks about database can only be queried in a true emergency. these are open to interpretation. >> yeah. >> the obama administration may have one interpretation for this. whoever who is in the white house in 2016 may have a different one. >> thats why i paused after giving him the hug we just gave him for the fisa court. its all in the details. weve been down this road before. there was enough wiggle room in the guantanamo orders that they were going to take their time in terms of how ...

This type of program could be used to yield more information about our private lives and open the door to more intrusive bulk collection programs in the future. they are also right to point out that although the telephone bulk collection program was subject to oversight by the foreign intelligence surveillance court and has been reauthorized repeatedly by congress, it has never been subject to vigorous public debate. for all these reasons, i believe we need a new approach. i am, therefore, order...