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Members of this panel? well, they learned about the bush administrations terrorist surveillance program by reading the "new york times." and a report that the board wrote was heavily edited by the white house. one memory signed in protest. congress in 2007 made the board an independent agency, president bush nominated members in 2008 but the senate never took any action. president obamas turn came next and he promptly dragged his feet. he didnt even nominate everyone to the board until 2011 and ...

Questions how someone like him, young as him, with his background, could have such access to such classified information and given your expertise and the positions that you have held, are you surprised? >> well, actually, mika, i am included in some of those people you just referred to. i am very surprised that someone like him, fairly low ranking, working for nsa, out in hawaii, able to get access to sensitive documents including the fisa court order. >> so, general, can you give us some exampl...

Recorded? >> i cant conceive of it being true. number one. think its technologically beyond the capacity of any surveillance agency to do that. and number two, it doesnt make sense with what it is we know about this program. the agency gathers from american telecommunication providers what are essentially business records. they dont collect it, they dont put alligator clips on some wires somewhere. these are records that the company creates for their own purposes. then under this court order, sh...

Explanation. because i feel like were dealing with a bunch of clouds. i dont know what the actual facts are, the entire program, expansion of it, how it changed, how it adapted. i would say on trusting in government and the poll that you mention, trust in president bush at the time the terrorist surveillance program was leaked to "the new york times" on the front page for days and days was low during the first year of the second term. thats now true for president obama as well. but the media, it...

In this particular program, it applies to foreign citizens, the program does, not the fourth amendment. ive seen this program operating in realtime, when i was a member of this privacy board. and i saw the careful scrutiny that each person involved in the terrorist surveillance program, when they approached the line of encroaching on the fourth amendment rights of american citizens, they pulled back to the point where there were so many checks and balances within that agency, where i was watchin...

Program does, not the fourth amendment. ive seen this program operating in realtime, when i was a member of this privacy board. and i saw the careful scrutiny that each person involved in the terrorist surveillance program, when they approached the line of encroaching on the fourth amendment rights of american citizens, they pulled back to the point where there were so many checks and balances within that agency, where i was watching the program, i sometimes wondered whether we were missing evil...

Program does, not the fourth amendment. ive seen this program operating in realtime, when i was a member of this privacy board. and i saw the careful scrutiny that each person involved in the terrorist surveillance program, when they approached the line of encroaching on the fourth amendment rights of american citizens, they pulled back to the point where there were so many checks and balances within that agency, where i was watching the program, i sometimes wondered whether we were missing evil...

Thats supposed to identify foreign content with 51% accuracy is being focused on foreigners for legal troubles there as well. >> jane, you saw that huffington post picture of the president supposedly being morphed from george w. bush to george w. obama. he is getting criticism from the left and right. were you reassured with what you heard sf. >> i certainly was. i spent many years in congress focused on these issues. some things were done wrong, wolf. for example, i was ranking member on the ho...

That there is going to be a margin of risk that were going to have to live with now. >> so, now, describe what it would mean to push that hand down. you ran the national security agency, the super secret spy agency with many people believe is the largest budget that has the ability to do, it does all the technical, technological data gathering. could you eavesdrop on, you know, conversations at a much grander scale than youre doing? >> you know, what technology is available now, of course, you c...

Security agency, this super secret spy agency with many people believe is the largest budget, that has the ability to do -- it does all of the technical, technological data gathering. could you eavesdrop on conversations on a much grander scale than you are doing? >> you know, technology available now, of course you could be more invasive. and truth in advertising here, fareed, i was the one that installed the terrorist surveillance program that caused so much controversy during the bush adminis...