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Be unconstitutional. hes expected to hold a press conference later today joined by some privacy groups as a top intelligence official insisted these programs work. edwards snowden is hiding out with his secrets perhaps in a hong kong safehouse, now accusing the u.s. government of a global hacking operation. thousands of miles away on capitol hill, the director of the agency snowden once worked for argues the controversial surveillance programs work. >> its dozens of terrorist events that these h...

Lake city just to contain all of this. according to the chief of the nsa it has thwarted dozens of terrorist attacks. my question to you is, is that it? does the end justify the means? >> we have to be skeptical until we see the evidence as to the success rate of the data. i know for a fact that in the past intelligence officials claim certain plots were thwarted and it turns out that wasnt entirely correct. lets see some of the facts there. we know of two or three very high profile plots includ...

The feelings i had yesterday. this guy cant be a hero in my mind especially with more information coming out. the next time a terrorist attack happens on our soil, are we going to say thats because we jeopardized this program that was in place that had thwarted, as he testified yesterday, dozens of terrorist attacks? >>steve: love him or hate him, he has forced this debate in the country about our national surveillance. >>gretchen: and security. >>steve: absolutely. no doubt the government is tr...

Prevent for both here and abroad in disrupting or contributing to the disruption of terrorist attacks. >> automatic of those million, dozens have been critical. >> thats correct. >> reporter: most of the details he says are classified, but alexander was more than willing to admit this intelligence helped stop a plot to attack the new york subway system. leading to suspect pleading guilty to terror related charges in 2010. >> so it was the one that allowed us to know it was happening. >> reporter...

After 30 years. e-mails showing he was responsible for editing the benghazi terrorist attacks. he decided to retire to spend more time with his family. president obama back in washington after hearty fund raising in florida. he spoke in miami beach raising money for the democratic national committee. two miami police officers were injured when their vehicle was involved in a crash on interstate 95. both officers taken to the hospital. hillary clinton back in the political spotlight today. sh...

We know nsa is building a $2 billion facility outside of salt lake city just to contain all of this. according to the chief of the nsa it has thwarted dozens of terrorist attacks. my question to you is, is that it? does the end justify the means? >> we have to be skeptical until we see the evidence as to the success rate of the data. i know for a fact that in the past intelligence officials claim certain plots were thwarted and it turns out that wasnt entirely correct. lets see some of the facts...

They have to understand it. >> reporter: while the politicians haggle, the mayor and his neighbors sit and wait. ed, cnn, west, texas. it will be fbi director robert mullers turn to sit in the hot seat. hell be questioned about the sweeping data mining and surveillance operations. yesterday, general keith alexander says he believes they are saving lives uncovering dozens of terrorist attacks. the man who blew the lid off the surveillance said the u.s. has been hacking foreign computers for y...

Director testified that, quote. dozens of terrorist events were disrupted, democratic senators ron why den and mark urdahl early critics of these programs saying quote: the house is backing up alexander who claims controversial data collection programs are providing primary investigative leads. >> these programs authorized by congress overseen by congress and federal judges, overseen with internal checks and balances within the executive branch, were found to be directly effective in thwarting t...

Executive branch, were found to be directly effective in thwarting terrorist attacks and again i cite general alexander in his note yesterday that these programs have, over time, contributed to the thwarting of dozen offers attacks. >> after alexander testified, the quote dozens of terrorist events were disrupted by the program, democratic senators widen and udall, early critics of the nsa challenged those claims saying quote we have not yet seen any evidence showing that the nsas drag net colle...

Through the data situations. is the masses of data helping you? >> your final thoughts and adding to that, do we -- should we be taking the governments word on the news that they say they are thwarting terrorist attacks? does the american public deserve more information? >> i think they do because the question isnt about terrorism. we understand as americans in terms of our physical privacy what the limits are. in an airport you can be checked, at the grocery store you cannot. as we get increasi...