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Details, they alluded to the secret program but because they never got in the details people didnt pay a lot of attention to it. we didnt know just how massive this surveillance was and how many -- in the case of prism, how many internet companies were involved. very popular ones such as google, for instance. >> yeah. i want to read from your article you wrote on the hill. congress has repeatedly voted to reauthorize language in the done patriot act granting intelligence agencies broad discretio...

Law. >> how can you believe in freedom, try and play devils advocate for me. how can you believe in freedom and boast about fighting for freedom when you have secret courts, secret operations like prism, secret investigations which go into every spit and cough of every americans life without any member of the public knowing about it. thats not freedom, is it? >> not to my mind its not. thats why i voted against the patriot act. i think what the american people have got to rise up and say look, y...

They want access to prism so that it can get this unbelievably rich never before existed in history, didnt exist ten years ago, cache of online material that people collaboratively hand over and that their friends hand over. there are jokes about google or facebook as the worlds greatest intelligence agency. i dont know why i didnt think of it sooner, the nsa would -- >> right. heres the thing. the power points we have been showing while youve been talking, these are from the prism power points....

Card fraud fraud. tens of thousands of it for years. you can find patterns that reflect credit card fraud. i wrote a paper on this five years ago. nobody refuted it. in the national security agency im guessing theyre trying to come up with a way. the thing theyre doing is using our private data about our phone calls and more data in a program called prism which gloms on to the major internet providers, google, microsoft, apple and more, to gather data about all of our comings and goings on-line....

In the next day, moving into the northeast, 2 to 4 inches. you can see from new york to boston. and then it all moves out of here by the time we head towards sunday. well have more on where the biggest threats are right along the coast coming up in just a bit. >> i guess the fact that its going fast is good. that means its going to rush through and not going to linger too long. >> save a little bit of the weekend. first phone records and now data mining, a raging controversy unfolding this mor...

Thats the kind of country and world in which we want to live. we havent had that debate because its all done in secrecy and the obama administration has been bullying and threatening anybody who talks about writing it or doing journalism about it. its well past time that come to an end. >> absolutely. this new bombshell involves a setup called prism. sounds like something out of "star wars" but prism is now responsible, i read either in your report or the "washington post," weve got martin gelma...

Is accessing central servers to top u.s. technology firms through a program called prism. some of the surveillance started back in 2007. microsoft, google, yahoo! facebook, apple, aol, paltalk, youtube. a lot of companies deny the government has that access. wolf blitzer of "the situation room" is joining us. people waking up think this is unbelievable. >> a major development. we didnt know the full extent of what was going on until the past 24 to 48 hours. a huge, huge issue. two people who i w...

Law. >> how can you believe in freedom, try and play devils advocate for me. how can you believe in freedom and boast about fighting for freedom when you have secret courts, secret operations like prism, secret investigations which go into every spit and cough of every americans life without any member of the public knowing about it. thats not freedom, is it? >> not to my mind its not. thats why i voted against the patriot act. i think what the american people have got to rise up and say look, y...

Government through the nsa to get into almost any internet server and find and retrieve anything they like. >> well, they certainly have the technical capability. once you have your hooks into the server, then you take what you like and they are not interested in asking yahoo! or google or facebook either to do it for them, because they want to do it in realtime, and theyre not interested in telling yahoo! or facebook or google this is who were targeting, that is what we want to get. thats not t...

Tomorrow morning you already clear out. theres the rain, guys, in maine. way into saturday morning and by saturday night the winds will settle as well. >> we have a friend from boulder spending the night in new york city and going to maine. so i told them, wear your slickers and bring your umbrellas. >> youre a great friend. >> alexandra steele, thanks. is national security here or a sinister case of snooping in there are new reports that the u.s. intelligence agency has been tapping into phon...