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The governments secret surveillance program gathering your phone and internet record, and now executives at several internet company-including doingle and facebook, claim theyre not directly sharing your information. directly. those companies are denying reports they gave government direct access to users web histories, e-mails and pictures and just about everything else for that matter, all part of the governments computer tracking program, code-named prism. doug is in d.c. >> there is a growin...

Hearings on the nsa programs. something intelligence chairwoman dianne feinstein said she would be open to. he did make a distirngs between the two programs that have been disclosed over the past week. >> theres one, the so-called prism program, and its been very effective. it surveils foreigners, grabs content, photographs, e-mails. the two 15 provisions collecting all the meta data, im not convinced its uniquely valuable intelligence we couldnt generate in other ways. >> kentucky senator rand ...

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When something happens then they come back to us and say, why didnt, as clapper said in the interview, why didnt you spot the fact that the brothers were becoming self-radicalized sooner? why werent you on them sooner? he made that very strong argument and i think that the politics will bear that out. it doesnt say that we shouldnt be having a debate about the verizon, whats commonly referred to as verizon, not just verizon, all the telephone companies, how broad that sweep is and he said, you k...

Live from d.c. doug? >> shep, googles ceo eric schmidt said back in 2009 quoting now if you have something that you dont anybody to know about maybe you shouldnt be doing it in the first place. all of the high tech companies named in the nsa leak have denied involvement in the nsa prism program. the similarity of their statements about that is remarkable. mark zuckerberg of facebook said here facebook is not and has never been part of any program to give the u.s. or any other government direct a...

Theres clearly indications the 702 program, the so-called prism program that youre aware of -- >> thats the internet program, but its on foreign entities. >> it surveils foreigners and foreign entities, by the way that sweeps up americans as well. we could have the another conversation about that. but its unclear to me weve developed any intelligence through the metadata program thats led to the disruption of plots that could have been attained through other means. its hard for me to sit here wi...

But they are recruiting people every day over the internet into their cause. look at what happened to the boston terrorists -- >> terrorists you mean? >> yes. >> but this program, the prism program as they call it, looks for intelligence overseas via the internet wouldnt have caught tamerlan tsarnaev because it doesnt apply to people in the u.s. >> mr. alawahi was recruiting people through the internet and phone calls back and forth through the united states of america, but i dont claim to defen...

>> on the metadata program, the 205 program -- excuse me, candy, its 215. a lot of numbers flying around. on 215 everything i know is that its metadata being collected. on the so-called prism program, content is being intercepted and americans are being swept up in that program. and ive been calling for a clear policy there as well. but my focus this week has been on all the phone records that are being accumulated without americans knowledge. >> one of the things we went back and looked at was ...

A lot of numbers flying around. on 215 everything i know is that its metadata being collected. on the 702, so-called prism program, content is being intercepted and americans are being swept up in that program. and ive been calling for a clear policy there as well. but my focus this week has been on all the phone records that are being accumulated without americans knowledge. >> one of the things we went back and looked at was the fisa court that was set up to make sure that when the government ...