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Security apparatus more than dr. martin luther king. so faced with what they perceived as a threat, the security state did what all security states do when faced with the perceived threat. they surveilled dr. king around the clock. they stalked his every move, broke into and bugged his office. they bugged his hotel rooms and they were tapped into his phones. the fbi and j. edgar hoover were obsessed with ruining dr. martin luther king jr., in 1964 after hoover called king the most no notorious l...

This president, not by the prior president, not by the leadership of the nsa, not by the reports to congress under the patriot act, which have been woefully misleading as weve been reporting on this show with experts. so what people know based on lies and desemceptions from the government doesnt give us a full picture of public opinion. count me out of the ignorant surrender crowd to the security state. you have 3 million people with security clearances. you have the fourth amount being shredded...

Terms of his base. in terms of his. with the american voters. >> will that ever change? >> in 2007 and 2008, there is a popular politics available in this country for people who stand up and say i reject the false balance between security and lint. we have a constitution for a reason. we have gone bonkers since september 11th, there was a popular poll tinges for that back then. i think a popular politics going forward, but not led by this president because he has changed his attitude. >> the cam...

This is more phone carriers, if is this a three-month, one three-month order only or rolling ongoing thing but it strongly suggests to me this is the sort of unbroken off continuation of 12 years of post 9/11 policies and it becomes a bipartisan thing. this idea of a bipartisan security state is real and what this is telling us. >> joe? >> it really is. it is a bipartisan security state. historians wont look at george w. bush as a guy who had one separate set of policies and barack obama as a pr...

That this man ran as the anti-bush has now rendered completely ridiculous. >> and to that point, no matter what you think of whether or not this is a good idea and protects our national security, steve kornacki, as a candidate, the president was against this, was he not? >> i think what this really is a story, this is a story about the bipartisan security state, because it was during the bush years that we had fisa became a big controversy in 2006 when it came out that after 9/11 in the wake of ...

Issues tended to be wrapped up in the debate about should google be tracking your email. it seemed to be more personal and the quote-unquote bad guys were advertisers who wanted to do things, not people who wanted to kill you. i can see those attitudes shifting in the direction of fewer civil liberties and a heavier security state. >> we know we have a news update that the dhs, the department of homeland secured says its reforming the student visa system to insure that border officials have real...

>> the only way to have perfect security is to have a perfect security state. thats george orwilliam. 1930. >> shannon: its about the possibility that this data could be abused. >> thats real danger because, its really a turnkey situation, where it could be turned to become a totalarrian state quickly. the capacity is to do that is being set up. >> shannon: a senior nsa official told fox, the agency has strict rules for collecting, analyzing and retaining information. but nsa cant discuss the ru...

Be clear, in october 2011, then again in march of 2012 i believe that was here with the prime minister and neither one of these meetings was there a specific conversation between you and them with regards to concerns that we had that -- not just the deteriorating security situation but the inability of them as a host country to meet their obligations to provide security? >> of course. >> there was a conversation? >> absolutely. i mean this was a constant conversation, senator. and what i found w...

How -- well focus on republicans thus far have treated it, which is to say they all say, you know, well wait until the hearing. we want to give him a fair trial, but theres no way im voting for him. the question is out there. can he even have a fair trial at this point? >> right. well give hi trial first and then well -- >> hang him later. >> exactly. i dont even know if it matters if he gets a fair trial because they dont like what theyre hearing. they dont like what this year going to hear, wh...

Certainly we are going to do our best to ensure security state-wide. law enforcement and the professionals at each institution in connecticut. what i would like to do now is tell you that i dont want to keep coming and i will come here every day if its necessary. i dont want to come and just tell you everything is under investigation. in the next week, we will probably have by 12 noon today if we can get here to bring you up to date with anything we may have, but we are going to start scaling ba...