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This contravenes our interest and underminds the american security and the security of our friends in the region, especially the israelis. >> gordon chang, it is a wonderful, interesting perspective on an unexamined component of the crisis. thank you for your time, sir. >> thank you. america spends tens of billions of dollars every year on secret spy programs. news of this so-called black budget came to the "washington post" earlier this week from nsa leak erred ward snowden. chief con -- leaker...

Called hop analysis the nsa traces a call made by a terror suspect but can track the records linked to anyone the suspect calls and on to anyone each of those callers contact, and so on. senator dick durbin was clearly uneasy. >> when you look at the reach of this program and it envelopes a substantial number of americans. >> reporter: frustration between senators and the intelligence community starting with how nas leaker edward snowden was ever granted access to the countrys most guarded spy p...

Other countries, it couldnt apply to because the data is not there and doesnt come into the u.s. >> that was quite a lengthy exchange with congressman hines. at the end of the day what was not answered whether the phone records database provided that critical tip or initiating lead that led to the uncover of the plot. senator critics most widely udall and another said the phone database just provided supplemental or a secondary level of confirmation on those tip tips. >> it was the most full thr...

Nations counter terrorism strategy after september 11, and helped lay ground work for the secret nsa programs that are now generating so much controversy. now he is speaking out about those spy programs and the admitted leaker, edward snowden, in a rare interviews on fox news sunday. vice president cheney calling snowden a traitor and suggesting he could be a foreign spy. more on that in a moment. here is the former vp defending the government surveillance critical to our national security. >> w...

Definitely telephone. the individual responsible for leaking the two of these spy programs has now come forward and he spoke to the guardian newspaper yesterday. >> they specifically targets the communication of everyone. it ingests by default. it collects them in a system and filters them, analyzes them, measures and stores them. any analyst can target anyone. i sitting at my desk had the authority to wiretap you, to act account, federal judge or the president if ordered. it is dangerous to dem...

Reporters put the letter in writing to the eric holder and fbi director robert mueller. so far no response. the feds are giving members of congress more information about the spy programs. catherine herridge continues team fox coverage there were two briefings there today right, cat. >> thats right, shep. rare briefing of the full deputies atior at the the justice department, fbi and national security agency about the data collection program. also on capitol hill the head of the nsa and u.s. cyb...

Congressman, we thank you for the insight. we look forward to having you back and what have you to say in the future hearings. >> great. have a good sunday. >> jamie: members of congress will get a closed-door briefing on the nsa spy programs and peter king is here next, we will ask him what he wants to honor learn in that meeting with intelligence officials. [ larry ] younow throughout history,

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Why our allies would be upset, but in this day and age, isnt everyone spying on everybody else? we cant just be the only people, the only nation doing this. >> absolutely. and i think the surprising point now is that president obama apparently didnt even know that this was happening, but officials at nsa say they have so many spy programs like this one going on, which is probably also breaking news for a lot of people, that it just doesnt make sense to keep the president abreast of so many of th...

At the time, the obama administration was trying to re-set relations with russia. might have been trying to re-listen as well. today u.k. prime minister david cammeron was asked if there was any eavesdropping going on this week at the summit. he said he never commits on security and intelligence matters, now two countries said to be targeted turkey and south africa. they want answers. one russian official branded medvedev administration as a scandal. they say its widely suspected there is a fair...