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For the better. a rare move that could have a chilling impact on investigative journalisterswhere. the justice department charged a former top officials in the nsa, national security agency, with leaking classified intelligence to a newspaper reporter. thomas drake has been indicted for allegedly leaking information on the terrorist surveillance program that came to be known by critics as warrantless wiretapping. according to the indictment, drake was major source for a series of articles abou...

L.b.j. was in office. then and now real-time reporter and authors faced a vexing question when to withhold nuggets of information for their book? five years ago it was the "state of war" tra prodded the employers in the "new york times" to publish the chief revolution, existence of the bush-cheney terrorist surveillance program. >> what is vitally important is if something crucial is unearthed in the process of the reporters digging up information for their book, it ought to be reported in a tim...

Terrorist surveillance program has been found guilty of illegally eavesdropping on two american lawyers and an islamic charity. the third story -- a ruling from a federal court in san francisco that could be the most significant in unraveling the invasions of privacy institutionalized by president bush. the law was filed by the saudi branch of islamic foundation and two american lawyers. the plaintiffs claim the phone conversations in 2004 were illegally wiretapped by the national agency nsa whi...

Tonight, the united states government, following guidelines set by the bush administrations terrorist surveillance program, has been found guilty of illegally eavesdropping on two american lawyers and an islamic charity. there was a ruling from a federal court in san francisco that could be the most significant yet on unraveling the invasions of privacy institutionalized by president bush. it was filed in 2008, two american lawyers. the plaintiffs claim phone conversations in 2004 were illegally...

Government, following guidelines set by the bush administrations terrorist surveillance program, has been found guilty of illegally eavesdropping on two lawyers and an islamic charity. there was a ruling from a federal court in san francisco that could be the most significant yet on unraveling the invasions of privacy instituted by president bush. it was filed in 2008, two american lawyers. the plaintiffs claim phone conversations in 2004 were illegally wire tapped by the nsa. after it was deeme...

Without first getting a search warrant. this is the last active case that challenges the bush administrations old terrorist surveillance program. were told todays ruling focused narrowly on the islamic charity case but one plaintiffs lawyer says it actually shows the entire terrorist surveillance program was illegal. then president bush authorized that program shortly after the attacks of 9/11 in an effort to allow investigators to start wiretaps without getting the courts involved. that program...

Lisa sylvesters monitoring some of the other top stories in "the situation room" right now. what do you have, lisa? >> hi, wolf. well, russia still reeling from a deadly twin bombing monday as attacks again. todays two bombs exploded in a southern republic near the southern republic of chechnya. 12 people were killed, including nine police officers. two female suicide bombers attacked the subway system in moscow on monday, killing at least 39 people. a chechnyan leader called the attacks reven...

Im christina brown. heres whats happening. people in new england are dealing with flooding on a scale rarely seen in the northeast. three days of record breaking rain have wash the out bridges and roads, overwhelmed sewage systems and forced hundreds of evacuations. amtrak suspending routes along northeast corridor and portions of i- 5, regions main north-south highway shut down. eight of nine militia members pleaded not guilty in a michigan courtroom today, charged with plotting to kill pol...

Can say categorically that brett kavanaugh was not working on or was in any meetings and did not work on any memos related to what became known as the terrorist surveillance program. i think he tried to mention that. he wasnt made into any program so senator leahy doesnt understand how classified programs work. if you are not read into something, that was the most sensitive program in the government at the time you are not told about it, you cannot work on it. you might have thoughts about somet...

Give you a chance to respond before we take it back to the hearing. >> like i said before, i think senator leahy wants me nominated for the supreme court. if trump does, i will answer senator leahys questions to his face. i can answer for judge brett kavanaugh, i remember more clearly than he does. the terrorist surveillance program was after that date. judge brett kavanaugh was not clear, not read into the program, at the highest classification level in the government, very few people were allo...