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Congressional officials who have oversight over these matters, they are not commenting about these latest revelations, broken this afternoon in the "washington post" and "guardian" newspapers. but we can tell you, we have been talking over the last couple minutes about these i guess revelations that have come out in these stories that the government has been using the servers of about nine internet companies, technology companies, out in the silicon valley, to look at what people have been doing...

You, in the last hour or so, we have gotten a number of statements from some of those companies in question you mentioned google, you mentioned apple. we have a statement from apple saying that they have never heard of this program called prism. they say they do not provide any government agency with direct access to their servers. google put out a statement saying that from time to time, they do disclose data to the government in accordance with the law, they say, but they do not have a back do...

Acosta at the white house and former congressman and libertarian, ron paul. jim, this has been a remarkable day. first, whats the latest youre hearing in washington from this? >> well, i can tell you right now the white house officials are simply not commenting and congressional officials who have oversight over these matters, they are not commenting about these latest revelations, broken this afternoon in the "washington post" and "guardian" newspapers. but we can tell you, we have been talking...

Note that that program that went on to the internet was looking -- was focused on foreigners. now, incidentally, here is the problem, incidentally it picked up our e-mails or might have but lets not conflate these two issues. one is the phone records issue which is all americans. the other is the internet issue which is focused particularly on foreigners. >> maggie? >> all right. >> the general point is still right. incidentally, its the collateral damage that we have to -- >> maggie? item the n...

That is not what i believe prism is doing. 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 talk...

Seems to be a license for the 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 wh...

Its well past time we have a debate about whether or not 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 aggressive about 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 ...

States communicating with people reasonably believed to be outside of the u.s. so these programs almost certainly, except for the prism one, are sweeping up conversations of american citizens on u.s. soil as long as the nsa decides the person theyre talking to probably is outside the u.s., but again, the fact that there are no checks, no oversight about whos looking over the nsas shoulder means they can take whatever they want. the fact that its all behind a wall of secrecy and they threaten peo...

And they held in that case that in fact the content of conversations is very different. so that they werent getting content. >> that is protected by right. >> that is protected. >> the content is protected by the fourth amendment. the fact that you made a phone call is not. that doesnt mean that congress cant legislate and say no we are not going to give you this power. just means the constitution doesnt require it. i must say after all of the scandals from this unbelievably corrupt administrati...

And they held in that case that in fact the content of conversations is very different. so that they werent getting content. >> that is protected by right. >> that is protected. >> the content is protected by the fourth amendment. the fact that you made a phone call is not. that doesnt mean that congress cant legislate and say no we are not going to give you this power. just means the constitution doesnt require it. i must say after all of the scandals from this unbelievably corrupt administrati...