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Its relying on affiliated organizations and franchise, encouraging terrorist attacks through this decentralized organization. that should have been discussed in this article so that we will understand the real threat. >> beencourage everyone to take a very close look at it and go back to foxnews.com and see other catherine herridge and broadcast journalists, to see what we had uncovered and what the intelligence community had uncovered. thank you very much, good to have you here. >> thank you. >...

Rotary phones and the founder of facebook was negative five. >> thats what the judge in washington said. that may be the president on the books, but its obsolete now. so i am going to find in a violation of privacy. you know, appeals courts dont take too kindly to district court judges saying, you know, the supreme court, its wrong. so i think the judge in new york may have the advantage on appeal, and i think the odds favor, although not a sure thing, this meta data program being upheld. >> one...

Made a big deal saying this program has prevented 50 terrorist attacks. judge leon said we didnt find evidence of that. >> that is a good. you are monitoring millions of phone cultures alls of millions people. you are coming up with mi277 reports and we are better off focusing on ground floor intelligence and not casting this net of privacy. he said they are growning in useless data and it is hurting their ability to conduct legit

Almost orwellian technology, not so, says judge william polley. heres what he says. quote, no doubt the bulky telephone metadata program vacuums up information about virtually every telephone call to or within the united states. as the september 11th attacks demonstrate, technology allowed al qaeda to operate decentralized and plot international terrorist attacks remotely. the bulky telephone met adata telephone collection program represents the governments counter punch collecting fragments and...

Strong the al-qaeda might be? this year, we put posts in the area because of the terrorist attacks. i guess it is nothing to dismiss, i guess im trying to figure out if this is really al-qaeda or freelance terrorist cells, using this twisting form of branding known as al-qaeda? >> yeah, that is a great question, kyra, my own take, it is really -- were talking about sunni religious extremists, and we find them in syria. what is going on with iraq? well, one of the answers is geography. what is go...

Information is not misused and that having it available to efficiently check to see whether a foreigner who has been identified as a potential terrorist has called an american phone number is a useful check and has helped us thwart some attacks. >> senator widen says that it is clear now that the phone logging program that nsa uses, the big data mining program, did not in fact stop any terrorist attacks. the advisory panels report makes that clear. your reaction? >> i think thats incorrect. i wo...

And evaluate whether or not the current structures that we have and the current programs we have are properly addressing both our continuing need to keep ourselves secure and to prevent terrorist attacks, or proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or other threats to the homeland. and are we also making sure were taking seriously the rule of law and our concerns about privacy and civil liberties. so what were doing now is evaluating all the recommendations that have been made. over the next...

And our personnel overseas from terrorist attacks. of course, a lot of our men and women in uniform are still overseas and a lot still spending their christmas far away from their family and friends and in some cases still in harms way. i want to close by saying to them and their families back home, we want to thank you. your country stands united in supporting you and being grateful for your service and sacrifice. well keep you in our thoughts and prayers during this season of hope. before i wi...

Unconstitutional or likely so and now you have a panel of the white houses hand-picked advisors concluding the program in the current form should stop, it poise as serious danger to core liberties and just as the court found, there is no evidence it plays any important role in stopping terrorist attacks. >> jeff, as glen said, coming on the heels of the court rolling being unconstitutional, what do you make of it? >> i find it in an uncharacter tick, there is one aspect i dont understand. what t...

Abc news consultant richard clark helps write that report. we think the so-called metadata program has not contributed significantly to the prevention of terrorist attacks in the united states or abroad. >> also among the reports, 46 recommendations for greater scrutiny and decisions on the spying on foreign leaders. president obama is expected to announce any changes to the u.s. intelligence program in the next month. millions of target shoppers who used their debit or credit cards in the s...