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Number two, were talking about a government that has never been known, and notice the sarcasm in my voice, to misuse the data. the irs targeting of conservative and pro-israel groups which is still going on, by the way. so here the nsa -- the nra files an amicus brief because theyre concerned that lawful gun owners whose data is being gobbled up by the nsa, but the expansion since 2009 under the prism program and the obama administration means that we have an out of control bureaucracy, and nsa ...

The past. heather: it puts our sources at risk as well. peter, you mentioned nsa. so i will just ask this question. what if it was edward snowden that had leaked all this information? >> well, i mean obviously thats troubling and people do know a lot more now about our intelligence collection programs. i mean obviously this is a devisive issue between civil libertarians and national security types. but the same sort of thing here, i believe that these programs are, you know, are legal, theyre co...

Theyre fascinating but the is we dont need to know them. the american people have a right to understand what were doing overseas but this sort of stuff is so sensitive that we didnt need to know exactly how it came about. and of course, like i said, it can be tremendous damage. now whether this was intentional or not im not sure. but i am concerned that somebody may have intentionally disclosed this information, even given authorization to do so, perhaps, to defend nsa because the nsa program ha...

Learned all of our e-mails and phone calls and facebook messages are subject to being snooped on. i was talking about this with some friends and we started thinking is it even possible to live a normal life outside of the surveillance state? so for 24 hours last week ei decided i would try this out, wrap my cell phone in tin foil, would i wear the hat that you mentioned. so would i do everything that i could for 24 hours to avoid being surveilled and see what it did to my life. >> and we dont kn...

Incident. leaders are on his side. they have asked for an apology and want the u.n. to investigate. as for snowden, could iceland be his new home? they are voting to give him citiz citizenship. six lawmakers out of 63 in the icelandic parliament back it. snowden is believed to be holed up at the airport in moscow. spying very much on the minds of our european allies. investigators met to discuss it. a high level meeting between the u.s. and european officials. now, france may have run their ...

Obama and his family in africa, so, too, is george bush along with his wife, laura. the couple were renovating a health clinic in zambia, when they decided to gift us all with rare post-retirement face time. president bush took the opportunity to weigh in on the massive domestic surveillance scheme known as prism that began under his watch and remained secret until last month when information about the program leaked by edward snowden was published by "the guardian" and the "washington post." >>...

Should expect from their government. >> i agree about the facts being laid on the table. part of the problem here, when we talk about the initial reporting that came out of the prism program, for example, and what exactly it is and how exactly it works. i mean, the issue that were facing in all this, and i come on television every night to talk about this, were talking about the trayvon martin trial, george zimmerman trial which well be talking about later. that was all open in court. we saw eve...

Laid on the table. part of the problem here, when we talk about the initial reporting that came out of the prism program, for example, and what exactly it is and how exactly it works. i mean, the issue that were facing in all this, and i come on television every night to talk about this, were talking about the trayvon martin trial, george zimmerman trial which well be talking about later. that was all open in court. we saw every word that was said. were talking about the decision the supreme cou...

Intelligence community, which help us to manage an entire foreign affairs policy. you know, those kinds of things, you know, should be kept secret and, you know, but i agree with you, there are limits on those things. but when were reporting about it, when we are advocacy journalists, and i do believe there is such a thing, then we have the duty to get the story right. to make sure that we check our facts against people who understand the technology thats being discussed. that people who underst...

Cammeron, keep it pithy, what is google doing exactly? >> they say they want to be able to report more to the public about what they have been required to do by the government because in their words to filing in the spy court in d.c. that overseas nsa and fisa court they say their reputation has been damaged and their business has been hurt because of false and misleading reports by the media so, what they want to do is report exactly how many times requests for information under -- by the fisa ...