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Name unless its valuable to one of the investigations. we cant just put out names and stuff in our things. part of the minimum sayings procedures protects the who. >> your status as u.s. persons give you a special status as weve described throughout this hearing. if that does surface and you figure that out youll get that information to us? also the president kind of suggested, i guess, in his television interview the other night that the new york subway bomber could not have been or would not h...

And see that were mining meta data or were using p.r.i.s.m. to go after e-mails? we didnt know that. >> obama is not dick cheney. this isnt warrantless wiretapping. they are getting warrants. secondly, hes also briefing members of congress. as i reported, there has been at least 35 briefings on the p.r.i.s.m. program and telephones. however, as you point out correctly, this isnt transparency. this is checks and balances, but this isnt transparency here. the fisa court is is issuing rulings in se...

>> politicians are jumping to the defense of the p.r.i.s.m. program. dana bash has that. >> a press to calm american concerns abtd secret surveillance concerns led by the republican intelligence chairman. >> the number of cases where we have stopped a plot, i think americans will come to a different conclusion that the misleading rhetoric i have heard. >> reporter: intelligence agencies are working to declassify information about the terror plots that told congress the secret programs helped to ...

Nsa on wednesday told congress that these methods of surveillance, in particular the prism program that, that may have helped prevent dozens of terrorist attacks? well, specifically one from 2009? >> section 702 clarkson was critical to discovery and disruption of the plot to bomb the new york city subway system; is that correct? >> that is correct. in fact not just critical, it was the one that developed the lead on it. >> well, snowden says thats also not true. in his online chat he wrote "u.s...

Federal government will be there for them just like the federal government was there for the victims of hurricane sandy and the recent tornadoes in oklahoma. we stand together as americans, and i hope americans will send their prayers and thoughts out here to colorado. but let me turn to your question. i am skeptical that the 215 business records program of the nsa is effective. we are talking about the p.r.i.s.m. program. thats a second program. it has been effective. it surveils foreigners who...

About our cyber warfare against them, i thought this guy committed treason before. if the information that he indicated about china is true, i think thats count two in his treason indictment. >> ambassador, thank you. always nice to see you. is the obama administration deliberately keeping congress out of loop. rick klein tweeted, obama says every member of congress has been briefed on phone program, suggests only intel committee knew about p.r.i.s.m. congressman long says not quite. >> i am n...

And as americans learn about the safeguards and the effects of the products of this program, i think theyll become even more comfortable. >> what has been misconstrued, from your judgment, having presided over these programs? what is done that people dont really understand is being done? >> whats most unfortunate is that both stories, p.r.i.s.m. and the meta data story, came out at the same time, and those stories have been interwoven in a bunch of public discourse about it. the meta data story ...

I think these programs and the way that obama has pursued them are an attempt to establish in law a set of rules the country can live with. and although general hayden would have preferred, obviously, that we not have this debate and that these things remain secret, were now in a debate that will have the useful consequence of people getting to make sensible decisions about the programs, do they really add to our security? it looks like the public thinks they do. >> right. >> are you willing to ...

End, and i think the country wants it to end. i think these programs and the way that obama has pursued them are an attempt to establish in law a set of rules the country can live with. and although general hayden would have preferred, obviously, that we not have this debate and that these things remain secret, were now in a debate that will have the useful consequence of people getting to make sensible decisions about the programs, do they really add to our security? it looks like the public th...

Business is out there in the street for everyone to read or everyone to know? >> its not polite or pc to say but i do believe that there are some things that the intelligence community essentially has to do that we should not know about. >> i think thats absolutely true. but i think the idea that there should be some things secret and where we are over here that we didnt know what kind of general web surveillance going on. i think were so far apart from it. on the point about p.r.i.s.m., its not...