Point of view. That is extremely important. Can we be more transparent about how they conduct that activity . I think the answer has been yes. We are certainly trying to be as you heard say its difficult to do it. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has established a web site which i believe is new for them. They are trying to post opinions there. We are working hard with them to try to find opinions to redact, find ways to redact the opinions and posts them. The Intelligence Community has established a blog on tumbler which i just learned about recently called icing on the record so you can just google i see on the record and you will find redacted Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court pleadings and we are working hard to put additional matters up there. I cant say that they are selfexplanatory. They are written in densely blocks of redact the text. Another issue that we have to think about is not only the need for a person to have clearance and the ability to review things
Journalism to do. I talked to glenn green wald. The secretes and when they mean to the the secrets and what they meantime to the nsa. And we begin with that mining disaster in turkey. The worst in the countrys history. Here is the latest. 274 confirmed dead. Others still missing. There were proces protests aftee president visited the mine. The mine is located in the western town of soma. Andrew simmons has this report. What was a rescue operation has now become a long running procession. Carrying bodies to the surface. A fleet of ambulances no longer waiting for injured but driving away the dead. This, the somber after canmath of an underground fire. Every miners fear. And families ams stunned incomprehension of the loss. Most who died had no means of escape. Hour after hour, families waited in vain. Its become a grim routine now bodies arriving, so many of them, hoping they will recognize their loved ones, hoping they would be alive but that is a forlorn hope. Neams of the dead names
Perspective of our operations officers and from the perspective of our analysts and i was most interested in knowing that they were okay from the perspective of the director of ota who you know and you and i both have Great Respect for. Lets go down the names. Robert trujillo was and is the number three in the office of the director of national intelligence. He represents the dni and deputies views. Alan p. Know was the Intelligence Officer for the middle east. He was at that deputies meeting. Mats olson was and is the director of the National Counterterrorism center. Jake sullivan was then the head of policy planning at the state department and is now the Vice President S National Security adviser. Mark juliano was head of the fbi S National Security division. Lisa monico was head of the department of justice National Security division and ben rhodes was the National Security staff. During any of those conversations with anyone on that list no one including the spokesperson for the Na
Fellow americans in their privacy being protected while providing our intelligence agencies with the authorities they need to acquire foreign intelligence that is so important to our National Security. The bill passed by the house last month would make some significant changes to the provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that we believe will help us meet these two objectives. Among other provisions, the bill would prohibit bulk collection of information under section 215, the National Security letter statutes, and the pen register trap and trace provisions of fisa. It replaces the bulk telephony Metadata Collection Program with a new framework that preserves the capabilities we need without the Government Holding the bulk metadata. To be clear, the president called for this transition not because the program was illegal or was being abused but rather to give the public greater confidence that their privacy is being appropriately protected while maintaining the tools t
Back in the United States. It has been almost a year since his first revelations on the National Security agency. He is out the new book, no place to hide Edward Snowden, the nsa and the u. S. Surveillance state. The latest disclosures may surprise you. Did you know the National Security agency is not only intercepting emails and phone calls, but the regular mail, too . Cisco ships it to that person. The nsa physically intercepts the package, takes it from fedex or the u. S. Mail service, brings it back to nsa headquarters, opens up the package, and plans a backdoor device on one of these devices, resealed it with factory seal and since it to the unwitting user who then provides Internet Service to large numbers of people, all of which is instantly redirected to the depositories at the nsa. Today, Glenn Greenwald for the hour. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Has begun flying piloted Surveilla