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Are certain countries in which the u.s. congress has declared a war. the authorized use of military force in places like afghanistan, and hes not interested in exposing secrets of what is being done against those countries. he instead is wanting to inform the citizenry, not just around the united states but around the world, that the nsa is targeting everybody, and trying to erode privacy for all of us. >> the heads of the intelligence committees have said it proves dozens of terror plots have b...

Force in places like afghanistan, and hes not interested in exposing secrets of what is being done against those countries. he instead is wanting to inform the citizenry, not just around the united states but around the world, that the nsa is targeting everybody, and trying to erode privacy for all of us. >> the heads of the intelligence committees have said it proves dozens of terror plots have been foiled because of these programs. if that happens, would it justify the existence of prism and o...

Him. and turn away from the disclosures that have been made as a result of whats been done. >> he says hes not given information about any u.s. operations against what hes called legitimate military targets. but his critics would say, who is this guy to determine what is and what is not a legitimate military target. >> what hes saying is, there are certain countries in which the u.s. congress has declared a war. the authorized use of military force in places like afghanistan, and hes not interes...

Information about any u.s. operations against what hes called legitimate military targets. but his critics would say, who is this guy to determine what is and what is not a legitimate military target. >> what hes saying is, there are certain countries in which the u.s. congress has declared a war. the authorized use of military force in places like afghanistan, and hes not interested in exposing secrets of what is being done against those countries. he instead is wanting to inform the citizenry,...

Programs like prism, looking at the internet, meta data work best after its occurred. predicting an event is very, very difficult. it includes a lot of luck in knowing who the pieces are in advance so looking at this. the mistakes were made by not informing the national security agency about these travel, about not turning the system on the boston bombers in advance and they didnt do it. that was a human failing. theyre still stove piping in the government. theres so many things to fix that we h...

That is an important fact to get out to the american people. and i dont think it compromises our security to have that kind of information in the public domain. >> right. so youre saying theyre collecting it but not necessarily culling through it and using it. i understand the point. what about the 50 attacks that general alexander talked about today that he says were thwarted because of the nsa gathering this meta data. do you think the nuance here that the gathering all this meta data of who w...

Is like dont. phone records, things the father is probably thinking about, phone records is not treason, that was already reported in usa today in 2006. he is clear with that. it is stuff you mentioned, it is prism, foreign intel. a hero would find out what the other guys are doing rather than us, that kind of bugs me about that. and anything after, did you ever thats hacking, eavesdropping, thats about us versus foreigners, thats not covered by the fourth amendment. i made this joke last night,...

Did it the right way. eric, i have to say the fact he went to hong kong, the fact that he dumped documents after president obama met with the leader of china, the fact that he told them what we were doing, hacking the chinese, i have a very hard time believing that he is committed to the security and best interests of all of us here. >> can i add something to this quick, sorry, bob. he has a dad that is out there defending him. we dont have a dad. where is our president? he is an absentee father...

Bill comes with the phone numbers that youve dialed. so that actually youve -- 4 there isnt an assumption of privacy. there is, however, an assumption of privacy about your conversations and whether they can be tapped into. jon: right. >> and of course that requires a further search warrant and that requires a level of investigation and oversight that this does not rise to that level. >> in the same way your mail is private and federally protected yet the outside of the envelope has addresses on...

Both having been with the cia. is that a responsible thing to do? >> well, obviously at this point i think they had to do this. if you were to do this again, im sure the government would rather not declassify them, but im sure there are things about this that can be declassified. i think we understand in general what prism is about. there is certainly a danger in the future that, you know, terrorists will be more cautious in the use of digital communications. they should be already. its usually ...