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And this guy, alexander said, im not going out there and clapper did it and those that did it got in a lot of trouble for what i ended up saying. well monitor this hearing and bring you the news as it happens. were seeing a rush to the courthouse steps over the nsa spying program. aclu and senator rand paul and now parents of a deceased navy seal have all filed separate class action lawsuits in the past few days alleging nsa surveillance infringed on their constitutional rights. among those fili...

When the news broke about the nsas spying, the "huffington post" was quick to weigh in and ran this picture of president obamas face melting into the smug semifinal his predecessor president bush. that reaction is as simplistic as it is unoriginal. if you examine the law, not photo shopped bushs spying program was quite different. his administration started a secret program to wiretap people without warns, violated existing law and not authorized by new loss. the administration tried to keep tha...

Edward snowden was an employee of our firm for less than three months assigned to a team in hawaii. snowden who had a salary at the rate of $122,000 was terminated june 10th, 2013. thats yesterday. and the reason, violation of the firms code of ethics and firm policy. that may be the understatement of 2013. it all comes as a reporter for the guardian is promising to reveal even more information about what he calls an invasive spying program. programs plural. joe johns has been following the stor...

Sending messages through the u.s. i think there are safeguards, but abuse is the issue. if you dont trust government, we live in an era of low trust in government, thats why i think people -- but when people look at it in terms of terror, they come to this conclusion you have to aggressively fight terror. >> the fisa only turned down 11 out of 34,000 requests. >> congress has been regularly briefed on those. >> go ahead. >> the program has been around about a decade and we do not have a single c...

Yes, 30%, no, 52%. you see the breakdown. the second question, how likely is it that government agencies are listening in on private conversations of american citizens? you see the breakdown there, very likely, 35%, somewhat likely, 33%. officials are saying thats not what this program does but lets bring in the panel. jason riley, editorial board member of "the wall street journal." paul williams, and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. it was surreal to watch that interview as snowden l...

Information. >> in other words, he doesnt provide specifics. >> not at all. and thats the problem. we know its legal in terms of the supreme court saying this information is not protected by the fourth amendment. we know congress iss -- >> the scandal would be a violation of our constitutional rights. thats the battle here, a battle between privacy rights and protecting our country in the aftermath of 9/11. but we as a country, the society, here i say republican and democrat, house and senate in...

>> the leadership of senate and house intelligence committee says snowden is misrepresenting the facts, especially on nsa collection of web content. >> it is not a target on americans, it has to be a non-u.s. person believed to be on foreign soil. >> the program here is legal. it has been passed by department of justice as a legal program. it is carefully audited. >> a former intelligence agent says it could be leekds by a junior justice department lawyer because snowden is apparently implicatin...

Is why a spokesman for director of national intelligence james clapper noted sunday attorney jenngeneral eric holder launche investigation into possible prosecution. noting any person who has a security clearance knows that he or she has an obligation to protect classified information and abide by the law. with some on the left suggesting snowden is a hero for showing the extent of the surveillance, all eyes now turn to the president and how strongly he will weigh in. >> where is the anger and o...

From bill benny that worked at the nsa nearly four decades, starting as a data analyst in the days before desktop computers. after 9/11, the nsa began a warrantless surveillance program approved by president bush. >> it started with the telecoms providing billing data, records of people in the united states calling people in the united states. my estimate was that they were collecting on the order of 3 billion a day. >> 3 billion phone records? >> 3 billion, just spernl inter this country. >> th...

Century president to have, the commander in chief, to keep us safe. there are going to be competing interests, civil libertarians, national security. we need to weigh those. we also need to make sure theyre updated to modern times. and again, until -- unless and until we see abuse of this information, im not particularly concerned. >> jason, how would we even know. we didnt know about the program until this guy leaked it. >> how would we know? >> abuse, yeah. >> i guess a whistleblower would com...