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Of thing, perjury, which is also a crime as we talk about crimes in relation to information. ill give you one example. last year, under the rules of the patriot act as expanded, the justice department reported they did 212 business records searches, weve heard that number around, heard it is not a lot. what is amazing, it shows that one of the searches requests goes to the lines they call the meta data, but put that aside, what it means is it affected millions of people and was done through one ...

>> the first program executed under section 215 of the patriot act authorizes the collection of telephone meta data only. as you heard before, the meta data is only the telephone number and contact, the time of the call and duration of this call. now, this authority, therefore, does not allow the government to listen in on a persons phone call, even that of a terrorist. >> the deputy director went on to describe the multiple layers of oversight involved, arguing that the government has achieved ...

Pretty good defense. here is the president, by the way. he called the nsa programs transparent and said i am not dick cheney. he pronounced it differently. lets take a listen. >> should this be transparent in some way? >> it is transparent. thats why we set up the fisa court. some people say, well, obama was this raving liberal before. now hes dick cheney. dick cheney sometimes says he took it all lock stock and barrel. my concern has always been not that we shouldnt do intelligence gathering to...

Justice department reported they did 212 business records searches, weve heard that number around, heard it is not a lot. what is amazing, it shows that one of the searches requests goes to the lines they call the meta data, but put that aside, what it means is it affected millions of people and was done through one request. so i have said many times in looking at this that the 212 number provided to congress was incomplete to the point of fabrication, because it gave you the opposite view of wh...

Lets get to the testimony today on capitol hill. what did you think about alexander saying that this information had foiled upwards of 50 terror plots? >> i listened to a lot of testimony, actually on this case, listened from beginning to end, i felt no more comfortable at the end than at the beginning. what he is basically saying is we need to connect the dots. problem is to get the dots, theyre going through everybodys records looking for the connection, algorithms on computers that say this f...

And see that were mining meta data or were using p.r.i.s.m. to go after e-mails? we didnt know that. >> obama is not dick cheney. this isnt warrantless wiretapping. they are getting warrants. secondly, hes also briefing members of congress. as i reported, there has been at least 35 briefings on the p.r.i.s.m. program and telephones. however, as you point out correctly, this isnt transparency. this is checks and balances, but this isnt transparency here. the fisa court is is issuing rulings in se...

Of knowledge about the citizenry is a very dangerous thing for the government to have. >> i want to bring up, you left the nsa back in 2001 because you thought that there were some things happening even then, this was 12 years ago, that crossed the line. what line did it cross and what was the final straw for you when you said thats it, im done? >> well, it was because they started collecting billing data from the telecoms. the one i knew that was participating was at&t, they were giving on the ...

Federal government will be there for them just like the federal government was there for the victims of hurricane sandy and the recent tornadoes in oklahoma. we stand together as americans, and i hope americans will send their prayers and thoughts out here to colorado. but let me turn to your question. i am skeptical that the 215 business records program of the nsa is effective. we are talking about the p.r.i.s.m. program. thats a second program. it has been effective. it surveils foreigners who...

Communications. james, five inspectors general looked at the program i governed and which you wrote about, and in a public report said there were no abuses. controversial program, but no abuses. >> but general, snowden got into things you had no idea he was getting into. >> i understand -- >> how do you know hes wrong? >> one more point. congressman, its only terrorism. the only way you can access the meta data is through a terrorist predicate. >> where is that written? >> its in the court order...

Meta data program, were established under the court under president bush in 2006 and 2008. and although candidate obama had problems with it, president-elect obama was briefed on it and embraced them as they existed when he came to office. >> general, one of the things that i think has been written about from both the left and the right -- peggy noonan wrote about it this weekend -- is that there is a lack of confidence in the government, which has evolved over a variety of administrations. so, ...