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Courtesy of the police department at hempfest. >> new nickname cheech and chong. more coming up for you. nsa broke privacy rules 3,000 times. is the president ignoring transparency and miss guiding american people on the spying program? congressman ted poe has had enough and hes here next. >> plus this -- >> how about come on down. come on. >> hes crowd surfing. >> its the price is right entrance like youve never seen before. >> this price is right is getting cool again. was it ever cool? what m...

>> we also have federal judges that we put in place who are not subject to political pressure. >> and third, president obama said the programs were sufficiently transparent, in fact, when asked if government should explain the new authorities which it had expanded without any public debate at the time, president obama said the court was transparent enough. >> should this be transparent in some way? >> it is transparent. thats why we set up the fisa court. >> so according to president, number one...

Section 215 of the patriot act, the program that collects telephone records ill work with congress to improve the publics confidence in the oversight conducted by the foreign intelligence surveillance court. known as the fisc. i think we should consider some additional changes to the fisc. we can take steps to put in place greater oversight, greater transparency, and constraints on use of in this authority. we can and must be more transparent. so ive drengted the intelligence community to make p...

On two things. a location overseas already identified as being of interest. two, triggers key words like a foreign e-mail address or words in that content. that said, if the "times" has this whole story right, how much bigger than we thought is the governments spying program? >> you know, i think its unclear, quite frankly. weve been talking about this issue for several years, what, maybe about four or five years. its unclear what the legal analysis is at this point. we dont really know whether ...

Lets take a look. >> we dont have domestic spying program. what we do have are some mechanisms where we can track a phone number or an e-mail address that we know is connected to some sort of terrorist threat. >> so i thought that was going. >> i would hate to see -- i would hate to see us with one if we dont have one now. >> we dont have a -- first of all obviously we have a domestic spying program. >> of course we do. >> but beyond that -- >> listen. >> what does the president -- >> i love thi...

That back then. so we dont really know and all administrations have in the past distorted or exaggerated the extent to which all these fancy new tools were responsible for preventing this attack and that attack. we dont know whether theyre relying on the more controversial aspects of their spying program to detect it. we just dont know and we have to take their word for it and americans are getting increasingly skeptical taking anybodys word for it right now. >> the trouble is because of that yo...

>> reporter: while congress questions is the nsa spying on us. who is accountable for edward snowdens leaks? >> anyone asked to resign or offered to resign? >> no one. >> reporter: the administration declassified more documents in an effort to show the surveillance is vital to national security. even as a new article unveiled more material from snowden about a program called x-keyscore proving the nsa can see everything you do electronically by collecting tens of billions of e-mails. >> allows a...

This is the big day in court. >> this is an emotional day in court for many of the people gathering there. ariel castro, the ohio man who kept those three young women prisoner in his home expected to give a long and personal statement during his sentencing today. one of his victims, michele knight is expected to be in that courtroom and to speak today, as well. castro pleaded guilty to more than 900 counts of kidnapping. more information provided by nsa leaker, edward snowden. he claims the ns...

Speak at the end of the sentencing. his attorney says that he also could be more remorseful than what we have seen so far. it is going to be a very dramatic proceeding for certain. back to you. >> stay with cnn for live coverage of castros sentencing beginning at 9:00 eastern. nsa leaker, edward snowden is leaking again. more details on ways the government could be watching you. britains guardian newspaper says the national security agency can see pretty much everything you do over the intersi...

Of course you are going to want to see this so stay with cnn for live coverage of castros sentencing beginning 9:00 a.m. eastern. nsas top secret surveillance programs under fire. president obama and a bipartisan group of lawmakers are going to hold a closed door meeting at the white house to discuss privacy as another edward snowden bomb shell is dropped detailing how much the intelligence agency is spying or could be spying on your internet activities. barbara starr with more on this. new re...