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As a lawyer, you know the difference between an untruth and a mistake. When clapper was asked that question, it was a public hearing and director clapper said for him, he liked public hearings as much as he liked root canals or folding sheets. He had two huge notebooks to prepare for the hearing, neither which talked about surveillance. We were notified the day before that senator wyden was going to ask this question. He was hit unaware by the question. If you read his answer, it is perfectly cl...

Is the balance that has to be struck in any kind of legislation like this. Mr. Vitka i would think the most informative part there, for policy makers, would be the number of americans who are affected, and i do not mean the numbers who are targeted, that it would indicate a pretty broad number that would not drive down to something that would compromise surveillance operations. Bob, is that the case, or am i mistaken . Mr. Litt it is difficult for me to answer that. There are other consideration...

Public of the need for validity of a broad program. The concept delineating between the number of people affected or how targets are picked, versus the program itself, i think is valuable, and it gets to a question that i would like a from everybody on. There is a trust problem that now exists, for whatever series of reasons. An example of a concern that i at least have was revealed through a usa today piece that came out last month that revealed that the dea had been conducting a Metadata Colle...

With rajoy and to her sister for her birthday present. There is a lot of hope literary figure two fair sister for her birthday present there is a lot of hope in that. Were going to achieve this big idea. And nothing was going to stop them. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. In his weekly address president obama talked about his support for the usa freedom act. Senator deb fischer has the republican address talking about the importance of authorization for defense programs. P...

Marriage. Plus the Senate Working overtime to consider a bill that involves collecting your personal information. Our panel on the patriot act extension as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. And we begin this morning with discussions going on right now to keep five senior taliban leaders from returning to the fight. The Obama Administration released the socalled taliban five from gitmo last year. In exchange for Sergeant Bowe bergdahl. Bergdahl now faces desertion charges, and the u. S. An...

Embargoed in the parl wants of washington, but the thing that you need to look at, the metadata collection, the most controversial one from Edward Snowden, that came through the course of last year. What will he do about it . We know that his own administration came back with they hold the data itself. But not going forward. We know its not enough for many advocates, many civil libertarians in this country, and where will the president go on that . Where will he go with the socalled National Sec...

Please let us know and whatever per whatever appropriate form we have and whether or not wouldnni arab countries follow soon. Could you get that pretty quickly . , we will try to provide a written assessment of that. If in fact enrichment of uranium spread throughout the , would you agree that that would be a very bad scenario for the National Security of the United States and israel if nations throughout the mid east turned to enriching uranium . Yes, particularly if it were for other than peac...

So we begin tonight with a new ruling on the nsa spying controversy. A federal judge ruled at the time legal for the National Security agency to collect socalled metadata from persons cell phone. A week ago another judge ruled it basically violated are rights. John terrett could you tell us . Half us think its a good idea because it keeps us safe, the other half thinks its terrible. And now members of the judiciary. Not just any members of the judiciary, two federal judges, district judges, pret...

Finance minister and five others. Reporter a daring attack in the heart of beiruts posh downtown area. The car baum killed the former finance minister, his bodyguard, and four others. He was a close aide and top advisor to former prime minister, and leading figure in the freedom movement. The explosion took place just a short distance from the residence where he had his office. Security had been very tight here lately, but that was not enough to prevent the attack. Translator we were inside and ...