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Your phone calls, searching through your facebook page, what is the government seeing and what is it doing with the information? kim vetter is a senior reporter with wired.com and james banford has written four books including the very first one about the nsa, including the shadow factory. so welcome. welcome to both of you. kim, first question to you. two different issues, phone calls and internet surveillance. government says theyre storing this metadata in english. what is that? >> so, metada...

>> completely huge. look, about 10, 20, approximate 0 times larger than a particular attack like this and thats a problem not just for this one company that got attacked, but a problem for everybody. they basically use the internets equivalence of phone book, that translates numbers into names, cnn.com, wired.com and they used that system to direct lots and lots and lots of traffic toward this one site, and it is so much its affecting everyone. >> why did these hackers do this? this is an ongoin...

Murder in central america. mcafee was a consultant for lockheed back in the late 80s when he created his software company. sold the business for $100 million. he bought homes and businesses in belize and settled there back in 2008 and sunday, mcafees next door neighbor, gregory fall, was discovered by his house keeper in a pool of blood with a gunshot wound to his head. fall, 52 years old, was a builder from florida. the two men were at odds apparently for months. earlier this year mcafee filed ...

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basketball coach bernie fine last night. a third man now says that fine molested him when he was a boy. also in a phone recording from nine years ago aired on espn fines wife, laurie, says she knew, quote, everything that went on. were expecting to hear from a family of a florida a&m student who died in a suspected hazing incident. they plan to announce a lawsuit against the school. robert champion was a drum major with the universitys award winning marching band. 30 band members wer...

when it comes to sarah palin. she is the last candidate who has a base waiting for her. however, theres been a lesson for her in recent polling, its gone from 16% of republicans in august to say shes my choice to be our nominee down to 7% in our lating polling. which means not that they dont like her anymore, this process, especially south carolina moved up, new hampshire and iowa are about to move up. republicans will be casting votes to pick their nominee just after new year in early...

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He is definitely a rock star. that is not where you see gates at this point and perhaps he learned a lesson because rumsfeld became a lightning rod. >> it doesnt seem to be in gates personality to be out in front. good to see you as always. candy crowley, chief political correspondent. your next update from the best political team on television is just one hour away. now we asked you to vote on the news. heres the winner. a guy in canada has cracked the code behind scratch off lottery tickets. h...

Action perhaps twice. military officials say just a few months ago manning got into a fight it is alleged with another service member and was busted down a rank, demoted from specialist back to private first class. that was the most recent one. but another military official tells us that manning was disciplined in 2008 when he attended intelligence school in the united states. now, we dont know what that discipline was for but the website wired.com reported that manning had uploaded videos conta...

Classified documents according to pentagon officials. the widened investigation is looking at potential accomplices and which government computer systems the information came from. >> theres a slew of people who have access. it will be very difficult, but we are determined to find out who is spoinl for it. >> reporter: manning already under military arrest for downloading classified video and documents. months ago he told a former hacker how he did it. in a series of online chats between manning...