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Broad political support and public acceptance. so in this case, i actually think were going to have to take a little bit of operational loss to make more public exactly what it is were doing and not doing and why it has been effective in protecting the united states. so i think well see a bit few more examples out there of how this program has been successful. >> general hayden, its willie geist. weve been talking about the prism program for a week now, since the "washington post" and glenn gree...

Going back and doing it all themselves and pulling their data off the internet. >> heres a thought experiment that matt iglesias said, google glass plus prism is going to be a lot of fun. think about that, think about the amount of information thats going to be streaming through peoples google glasses that is going to be sucked up somewhere and stored somewhere. that is the library of data that just -- it boggles the mind of how much sheer information there is out there about any one of us all t...

Right now. ♪ to insure that they were limiting their searches to nonamericans, prisms datas an fa list would key in search terms designed to produce at least 51% confidence in a targets foreignness. they just used search terms americans werent familiar with such as portion control, paid maternity leave and -- >> good morning. it is thursday, june 13th. welcome to "morning joe." >> it is thursday. not friday. oh, my god. with us on set msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the republ...

Denying any knowledge of nsas prison program. facebook has never been part of any program to give the u.s. or other government direct access to our servers. we havent even heard of prism before yesterday. we have not joined any program that would give the u.s. government or any other government direct access to our servers, we have not heard of a program called prism until yesterday. what appears to be an attempt to show it has nothing to hide, google has sent a letter to the justice department ...

Actually did because now were going to be putting all that information out to the terrorists and the rest of the world, telling everyone what the united states is trying to do to combat terrorism? >> brian: the damage is done. there is a column in the washington beacon and hes got great source. hes a terror guy and go to guy. he says the prism created an uproar within al-qaeda. theyve shifted communications. the jihaddists have to more secure areas. when it comes to microsoft, thats key for our ...

Getting lost in the shuffle? dana bash is on capitol hill where i know you spent your afternoon watching this hearing. you heard some of senators skepticism. what about the other senators? were they buying the argument? >> i think it is fair to say most were not. it was really in a bipartisan way that the senators were expressing skepticism. it was clear the nsa director came with ways to illustrate how he believes the programs are working. you heard him talk about the fact that dozens of terror...

1234* we have evidence that programs like this have been abused. on the other hand the prism is only supposed to be foreign and not domestic spying. the fact that they couldnt figure out that he was e-mailing glen greenwold and going to do all of this stuff means that they werent snooping on his e-mail. so maybe they are focused on that. >> and there is some question about just how this guy in this position got access to all of this stuff. >> and i am not a defense hawk, but i am a fan of ethan ...

This program theyre talking about as prism, 702 program, and he is not leading the defense, where others lead the defense in a way that persuade the american people. the poll numbers arent surprising, all we have heard about in the past week is invasion of privacy. havent heard details or substantive or serious details about what terrorist incidents they might have prevented. >> lets be clear, prism 702 is tapping into the internet, facebook, google, yahoo! accounts for foreign suspects or peopl...

The united states government and surveillance made public, there is some concern people are trying to do harm might have some sense of how the governments trying to catch them. on the other hand, we have a situation which we have the government essentially creating a metadatabase on americanok citizens with huge sweeps of who were calling, what numbers are being dialed to us, and that is a database thats being held, and we should be concerned about that. so i think there are two issues here and ...

Disclosure, so i think disclosure would allow us to have that debate. another thing thats a concern to me is a lot of these demands are going to be driven by the corporations. booz allen hamilton has basically one cliechblt theres going to be an interest on the part of companies to drive up expense. in fact, i think with disclosure youre going have beater debate about what it is financially and education wise and i think the american people would be pretty reasonable. >> congressman, some of the...