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Invasion of privacy and hopes to get customers or telephone companies and internet service providers to rally together and get in a class action suit to sue the government to knock it up a. the hope is to create political and economic pressure to change, and the government must -- and rand paul is going to take a position that will distinguish himself. >> thank you. lets bring in amy, just got back from a lurch where i was hoping she might learn a few things about what congressmen are going to l...

Raised, we need to look at that. we dont need to start with prism. we need to go all the way back to what actually brought us here. yes, you do have to balance national security. this is not black and white. this is gray. we do have to protect the safety and security of american people. >> yeah, and if you look at whats in the patriot act, to your point, we pulled a couple lines. this is from a supreme court opinion describing it where we talk about the patriot act eliminated individualized targ...

Terrorists, including e-mails, the internet, and cell phones. >> now a year after in 2002, the department, defense department announces the total information awareness plan. it collects huge data troves. 2007, protect america act and prism. according to power point slide obtained by "the washington post" prism begins. the government can contain e-mail and internet chats including microsoft and verizon. the protect america act reaffirmed fisa court powers. 2013 fisa court allows access to verizon...

Of a frenemy. whats going to happen, on crucial national security decisions, that affect the favor of our country, susan rice will have the definitive voice in the presidents ear. john kerry will get stuck with the loser missions like the kimera era. its sad because at least john kerry did his homework. he and understand a little bit about foreign policy in the world. over the years he studied. susan rice is just a political hit woman. >> brian: wow. okay. lets move on. lets talk about the nsa a...

Operation, which is the internet targeting of basically essentially foreign surveillance of those used internet. the targeting of prism that is a whole level, thats where you see the level of outrage where you have a whole bunch of folks in the intelligence community, well the verizon issue, the telephone, cell phone, maybe that was overclassified. nobody is saying that about prism. >> mark mazzetti, the conversation has quickly moved to this man, edward snowden and whether he ought to be prosec...

Explain the -- and this has to do with the collection. theres two separate programs here. we have the telephone number collection. thats one set. this has to do with prism which there seems to be a lot of people in the intelligence committee very upset about this. explain the safeguards you wrote into the law that are supposed to be used to protect people when it comes to collecting this data online. >> the fisa amendment act targets foreigners. so if youre a terrorist or a spy abroad, it author...

>> you know, its really hard to tell at this point. its, you know, when you look at, for instance, you know, the disclosure of the court order on verizon, you know, its hard to know what damage that would have done to the program. in terms of the prism slides that have, you know, leaked, you know, we dont know what we dont know and the u.s. officials are saying that there has been damage. i guess well keep reporting on that certainly. i do want to sort of go back to andreas point which is a good...

Statute and has instead been collecting all americans information, telephone records, and deciding later whether those records are relevant. so thats the concern. >> their argument is that the phone companies refuse to keep the records for more than 90 days. so if they cant force the phone companies to spend the money to store all these data, that the government has to do it so that then they have something to look back at if they see a subsequent threat. >> sure. so then the government needs to...

Contrast to the phone call program, the verizon program, prism is targeted actually abroad, towards non-u.s. persons, so if the government has reason to want to track data or information about non-u.s. persons overseas, they would go to google, aol, you know, facebook, any number of these internet companies and request information about that. so the u.s. is trying to draw a big, huge distinction in how these programs work and they keep emphasizing the white house keeps emphasizing that pris mg -...

All. change a line or two of code and you have access to things that until then the rules said you did not. someone who has his facility with computers and his clearances can technically get into things hes not allowed to get into. my guess is if he had stayed around, the auditing system would have said what did you do that for and he would have been in a lot of trouble but hes gone. >> i have mixed feelings. im nip wonder. this is one of the real big stories of recent months. there are two prog...