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Data still set is operating under a different name with financial support from schmidt. >> they can decide we want to target union members or tea party members or whoever we want. they take the information and combine it with another. martha: karl rove joins me now. karl, i know you said in terms of this nsa story that you are okay with it, you think it goes to the higher purpose of preventing terrorism. now i think everyone feels so vulnerable with all of their information in their lives now. w...

>> they are not secret in the sense when it comes to telephone calls, every member of congress has been briefed on this program. with respect to all the programs the relevant intelligence committees are fully briefed on these program. martha: several lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are saying the statement is not true. >> we were never told thee were able to find out the information thats been revealed this week. i think its a fiction its a fiction that everybody in congress knows. martha: ...

Information is collected under has to do with intelligence information. so we have a system set up internal to the system to catch that. so this whistleblower has gone way outside of this chain of command to s really dont think that this is right. well, the intelligence committee in congress thought about it and said that it is right. obama is completely naïve and in 2007 he said that we dont need to do this. after being president for four years, he said well, actually there is a war on terror ...

World relive in. for decades businesses have been using publicly available information. there are three sort of big pots of data out there. some comes from open and transparent institutions, increasingly our local governments. you pay a property tax as a publicly known item. the fact that you might have a hunting lie $sense is publicly known. in every state we know whether you are a registered voter and if you are a registered voter we know your sex, we know your age, we know where you live. so ...

Bill: southern:florida. that storm -- southern florida, that storm dumped 15 inches of rain. there is nowhere to go. martha: there are questions about the nsa surveillance program and the massive amount of information the agent $i collects on millions of americans. democrats relied heavily on their own data mining projects and there are new concerns this information could be used for political purposes. here is catherine herridge on a story for "special report." >> reporter: with scandals like t...

Off. people in his own district and the amount of money the irs was abusing and wasting in california. when you come back to the story? cincinnati, how many questions has lois lerner answered? we found out friday there is an irs attorney who was calling the shots in d.c. where did the questions end i think is the question now. >> if you look at other information that emerged from the transcribed interviews they raised many more questions. you have individuals in the senate office say we are gett...

To keep us from threats. we have legal means by which to do that. but do we need to turn the country inside out and have the government accessing our reports on and you unprecedented scale? bill: what do you think government does with that information? >> they store it. bill: for what purpose? >> they might need it later to go back and look at it. bill: are you talking about my financial records in health records? tax returns? what is it? >> any record that would potentially be necessary for the...

I think there has to be a greater trust and the on way you build a trust is to have that transparency and accountability. martha: this 29-year-old edward snowden self-professed whistleblower-leaker. he says i think the american people deserve to know their government is collecting this information or is he a leaker as mike rogers who needs to be prosecuted. we heard that the white house is beginning that process. >> if you are a whistleblower you dont believe the united states and go to a commun...

Hes done something for me want to run his name through the database. if you havent done that, you have no ability to do that. >> okay, fair example. lets take boston. the russians that this guy was in litigation with people in chechnya. why would we not pick up her know that? >> we should have followed that particular lead. but again, you have to run that through a database. it is this kind of information and we dont know that for a number or e-mail address is linked to that particular suspect. ...