Is epidemic. So, privacy every day is threatened. I think you want to limit the numbers that have access to this. I think you want to limit how you do it. This is what we are trying to find a way. There are a lot of telecoms out there now and if we go it a mandate which we may have to do and mandate the length of time, which we may have to do, i suspect there will be a court battle somewhere. And that is not going to help us. We have a very limited period of time to solve this problem, and it is up to when all of these sunset. And there are people in both bodies that want to do away with all of these programs. Until someone gets blown up at a big sports match, a number of people, a big building gets blown up, planes get blown up, and people have to understand, im really concerned. There are bombs that going through magnetometers. We know the person who makes them is still alive. There have been four attempts to get these bombs into our country. One was in 2009 and it misfired. He wante
Anyone who says its not serious because youre shut down, if theres a fire, doesnt know what theyre talking about. Lets just be clear. Lets just be clear. Now, senator vitter who , terrupted me several times oesnt know that my operator submitted this many pages of exemption requests. Let me tell you what theyre asking for. The proposed exemption would allow the operator to activities offsite senator markey, would you join me right up here . I know you were presiding. And we appreciate you being ere. Let me say again, the operator is asking to discontinue offsite activities and reduce the scope of onsite Emergency Planning. Examples of requirements subject to the proposed exemption that are related to discontinuing offsite Emergency Planning activities clude but are not limited to requirements for offsite agency plans, Emergency Planning zones, and ingestion pathway zones, the Emergency Operations facility, evacuation time estimates, offsite time limits, offsite dose projections, protect
Host in the daily beast, the headline the real reason the u. S. Did not rescue Bowe Bergdahl did not arrest Bowe Bergdahl. U. S. Special operatives would have had to give up one dozen possible hideouts in order to have a chance of rescuing him, according to u. S. Officials who often who also say that the Obama Administration did not want to risk the political fallout from another unilateral u. S. Raid, like a navy seal raid that killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011. Guest that sounds quite logical. None of us want to see soldiers put into harms way unless we have a clear target and operation. You know, the bin laden raid still remains controversial legally. We did go into another nation without their approval and carry out a military operation. We did kill people within pakistan. While we feel that was justified, many around the world view that as a clear violation of International Law. Imagine if mexico did that, they came in and took out a guy in san diego and went across the border. We wo
Year ago this month, the young Internet Freedom activist and groundbreaking programmer took his own life. He was just 26 years old. He died shortly before he was set to go to trial for downloading millions of academic articles from servers at mit. He was facing up to 35 years in prison and a 1 million fine. We will play excerpts of the film and speak with aarons brother noah, his lawyer elliot peters, and the filmmaker brian knappenberger. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from park city tv in utah. President obama has unveiled his longawaited review of the nsas surveillance programs over six months since Edward Snowden exposed them to global scrutiny. In a move denounced by privacy advocates, obama refused to end the bulk collection of telephone metadata, saying only he will modify it from how it currently exists. I am therefore ordering a transition that will end the section 215 bul
Michael hayden who ran the National Security agency when some of our allies phones were attacked. Well get analysis from David Ignatious of the washington post, david sanger of the new york times. Cbs news chief Legal Correspondent jan crawford and cbs news political director john dickerson. As we approach the 50th anniversary of the kennedy assassination well talk to former life Magazine Editor dick stolen and granddaughter of abe da bra maam zaputa its a lot but thats what we do at face the nation. Schieffer good morning again we welcome to the broadcast the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee California senator diane feinstein. Thank you so much, senator, for coming. You have been a big defender from the beginning of the National Security agency but you were clearly upset with the revelation that we were tapping german chancellor angla merkels cell phone, you said it was a big problem that the empty was unaware. Do you believe that that the president didnt know this was ha