white house thinking it might have been a better idea to bring in some of these tech ceos before the october 1st deadline. bill: that s true. ed snowden, the.?bú nsa expecteo come up at this meeting, how do you anticipate that? reporter: well, still some of these tech companies are very frustrated the government has been kind of pressing them to participate in some of these whether it be phone data collection programs, internet data collection programs or federal judge, as you know yesterday, saying that he thinks the phone data collection program, for example, is unconstitutional. it s still got to go through more legal hurdles before it s struck down. the president has promised reform, you ll remember on 60 minutes one nsa official said maybe there should be amnesty for edward snowden if he turns over other documents he had. jay carney made it clear that was a personal opinion over the weekend. they don t want to give edward snowden amnesty, they think he should come back to ame
happen. a full court obama administration press to cals americans concerns about secret surveillance programs led by the republican house intelligence chairman. if you can see just the number of cases where we ve actually stopped a plot, i think americans will come to a different conclusion than all the misleading rhetoric i ve heard over the last few weeks. reporter: intelligence agencies are now working to declassify specifics about dozens of terror plots that the national security agency director told congress the secret programs helped disrupt. over the weekend, the government unveiled a teaser. this document claiming phone data collection programs have helped prevent terror ploás, here in the homeland and in more than 20 countries around the world. supporters of the surveillance programs are trying to beat back suggestions the government is listening in on calls in the u.s. it s against the law for the and monitor u.s., americans phone calls.