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Forward on these serious terrorism charges. >> thank you very much for being with me. now to dramatic developments from israel. benjamin netanyahu visited the wall in jerusalem after capturing a fourth term as prime minister. the latest joined by middle east correspondent hanley gamble. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jose. essentially what we saw is a last minute victory for the prime minister three or four days ago looked unlikely he would be able to pull it off. frankly, he did thi...

And that is why i believe that we shouldnt be basing our response on deploying technology and then saying oh, my gosh, theres a new device out there that our existing technologies cant identify. >> its not particularly difficult to disguise a bomb. to disguise it so it can go through all the tricks, potentially even, for example, take a laptop. you need to be able to switch it on and for it to work. so youve got to really start changing the inside of it so that even though it goes through a scan...

Entire program. so he wants to keep it intact, not how. second, this morning, narrating what the paper called obamas path from critic to overseer of spying. but when it comes to the larger question of security versus privacy, theres no doubt that the president and the white house have evolved. as yahoo! news olivier reports, january 17th, 1961, president dwight eisenhower, five-star general, shocked americans with this dire warning in his farewell address as president. >> in the counsels of gove...

Theyre gone for good. second issue up, security versus privacy. with president obama preparing to set a new course for the nsa after the holiday break. he faces big decisions about how much were willing to compromise in order to boost intelligence operations and keep our nation safe. joining me now, victoria soto, professor at the university of texas at austin. joe madison, host of "the joe madison show" on sirius xm radio. you know were going to talk about "duck dynasty." how can we not? i brie...

Have caught the terrorists or potential terrorists with normal powers as opposed to these. so its not even as simple as saying we have to balance security versus civil liberties. the fact is these werent necessary for security. >>ly za. >> i really like the way this report begins. it reminds us there are two kind of security at stake here. there is national security t. need to be secure from outside attack. then there is the security guaranteed by the 4th amendment. the right of the people to be...

We ought to have an advocate in the courtroom when the secret court says okay this surveillance is okay. and maybe we ought to do this or that. but youre not hearing is maybe we ought to change this program. and i think thats the victory that the administration sees. there are those who think that this particularly, the e-mail, and u.s. phone calls, that data collection is way too broad. those folks on capitol hill are still in the minority. so time has kind of run against the president. but the...

Officials from the president on down are saying of course we should have a national debate about security versus privacy and all this stuff. well, we couldnt have that debate unless he had leaked the stuff. they werent ever going to tell us. >> so the ends justifies the means? thats a hard one. >> look. the fact that we now know that there are secret courts developing a secret body of law interpreting the 4th amendment and we cant even know about it, what opinions say? >> simon, you get this? i ...

Edward snowden. >> and you dont like it? >> no, i dont like it. and its ironic, of course, that officials from the president on down are saying of course we should have a national debate about security versus privacy and all this stuff. well, we couldnt have that debate unless he had leaked the stuff. they werent ever going to tell us. >> so the ends justifies the means? >> look. the fact that we now know that there are secret courts developing a secret body of law interpreting the fourth amendm...

What we think about him and, you know, is he a good guy, is he a bad guy, you know, i dont care about that. i do have strong opinions about what weve learned courtesy of edward snowden. >> and you dont like it? >> no, i dont like it. and its ironic, of course, that officials from the president on down are saying of course we should have a national debate about security versus privacy and all this stuff. well, we couldnt have that debate unless he had leaked the stuff. they werent ever going to t...

Mark udall said checks and balances dont work if americans and lawmakers are kept in the dark. >> its very, very difficult i think to have a transparent debate about secret programs approved by a secret court issuing secret court orders based on secret interpretations of the law. >> the heated debate comes as the aclu files suit challenging the constitutionality of the nsas secret dragnet calling it one of the largest surveillance efforts ever launched by a democratic government. joining us now ...