Have been hindered in being able to address that. Now, this comes as a curfew here in cairo has gone into effect. Its been about an hour now since the beginning of the third night of a militaryimposed curfew. Very few people out on the streets. The government saying tonight it was really going to enforce that curfew and arrest anyone who remains out. Obviously, that is coming on the heels of a very violent day, one that saw a lot of confrontation between supporters of the ousted president Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood and anticoup coalition on one side and police and Security Forces on the other. Keep in mind, we are still getting these death toll numbers. As you mentioned, in one area where all of these marches were supposed to converge, the death toll in that area alone stands at 80. Tens more killed nationwide. It is very much a challenging security situation as it unfolds in the next couple of hours, craig. Ayman, at this point, any sign of or word from the general . Reporter none whatsoever. In fact, he has kind of taken a little bit of a backseat, at least in the eyes of the public, since this interim civilian government has been put in place. Theres no doubt he still carries a tremendous amount of weight. A lot of the security decisions in the country are certainly being done or at least being carried out with close consultation with the military. Right now most of the Public Comments are coming from the presidency and the prime minister, and they have vowed to crack down on any type of violence, including the use of live ammunition, if necessary, to try and thwart the type of attacks we are seeing on police stations, on government buildings, or Public Properties like those that are now on fire. What can we expect this weekend there . Reporter we can certainly expect more protests. The Muslim Brotherhood says it is remaining defiant. They have called off their protests for this evening. They want everyone to go home because of the curfew. They say they will call for more protests in the coming days. They will not stop street demonstrations until all of the events of the last six or seven weeks are reversed and this country returns to a constitutional legitimacy, as they claim. Obviously, thats going to be a serious challenge given the fact that the security situation across the country continues to break down with these daily clashes, these daily confrontations, and more importantly a real threat to a lot of the government institutions, a lot of the stability of daily life for ordinary egyptians in the millions. Ayman mohyeldin in cairo for us. Thank you. I want to bring in Time MagazineSenior Correspondent michael crowley. Obvious question, how real is the possibility of a fullfledged civil war in egypt . Well, i think its real. It depends on how you define civil war, i suppose. For time. Com this morning i wrote a piece in which analysts were envisioning something. Maybe you would call it more like an insurgency where you had, you know, bombings, assassinations, a lot of ongoing violence around the country. You know, there are different estimates to how much support the Islamist Movement has. Im not sure that if you look at some of the lowend numbers, its enough to say you have a fullfledged civil war. I think its going to get worse before it gets better. Theres likely to be more violence. This kind of crackdown is likely to produce a backlash. So, yes, short answer to the question, the possibility for widespread ongoing Mass Violence and chaos seems to be rising. Republican senators john mccain and lindsey graham, michael, just issued a statement a short time ago. Im going to read it in part here. Just a snippet. The interim civilian government and Security Forces backed up unfortunately by the military are taking egypt down a dark path, one that the United States cannot and should not travel with them. They urge president obama to cut off aid. They go on to, in that statement, urge president obama to cut off aid. Has the United States, have we lost our influence entirely in that part of the world, in egypt specifically . Almost all of it. You know, i think that the Obama Administration must surely judge that theres some influence left or some sliver or some hope of having influence because they clearly want to keep this aid going. Im a little surprised, i guess, at this point that they havent at least talked more explicitly about suspending it or cutting some of it, but you know, that aid really doesnt buy what it used to. That number was set around 1980, and its never been increased for inflation. So its value when you measure for inflation has really dropped. I forget the percentage. I think it might be about 50 of what it was worth originally. And more importantly, its completely dwarfed by the, i believe, 10 billion to 12 billion being pumped into egypt right now by saudi arabia and the united emirates. Those are the people who have real influence. As i wrote today on time. Com, the Obama Administrations diplomacy might be better directed at those countries, at saudi arabia and the uae and trying them to get messages to the general. Just quickly, michael, and i know this is a big question, but in the simplest of terms, how did we get here in egypt . What did we misjudge, specifically . Well, thats a complicated question, and different people would tackle it different ways. One answer that comes to mind right away is a criticism that really goes against the entire American Foreign policy establishment of both parties going back, you know, at least a generation, which is that we were willing to abide by the dictatorship, essentially military dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak and never really pushing very hard. Although, george bush tried it a little before backing away, on political and Economic Reforms that would allow egypt to grow as a country, have a more liberal political system. In the name of stability, we really sort of turned a blind eye to a lot of repression and economic backwardization. Now, you know, one school of thought is its all coming home to roost. Its kind of too late for us to do anything about it. We just have to watch the chaos unfold and sort itself out, unfortunately. Michael crowley, Time Magazine. Always appreciate your insight. Thank you. Back here, congressional lawmakers are vowing more oversight amid a new report that the nsa routinely broke privacy rules in its controversial surveillance program. According to the Washington Post, the nsa exceeded its Legal Authority thousands of times since 2008 with unauthorized surveillance of americans or foreign targets on u. S. Soil. Senate judiciary chairman pat leahy says he plans to hold another hearing on the nsa surveillance program. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the report, quote, extremely disturbing in a statement saying in part, Congress Must conduct rigorous oversight to ensure that all incidents, all incidents of noncompliance are reported to the oversight committees and the fisa court in a timely and comprehensive manner and that appropriate steps are taken to ensure violations are not repeated. The report stems from an nsa audit obtained by the post from leaker edward snowden. Kelly odonnell joins me now. What kind of privacy violations are we talking about . What were learning so far, these are not instances of eavesdropping on conversations or reading emails. Its not that kind of thing. Its that big sweeping Data Collection weve been hearing a lot about in the last few months. Phone numbers or those kind of data were swept up while the nsa was looking for foreign intelligence targets. Sometimes this was sort of sloppy, unintentional mistakes where they put in the wrong area code and swept up a bunch of numbers that way or they had some sort of break in their own procedure. Some of it, apparently, unintentional. But in some instances, the audits found that there were cases where they went too far and sometimes the fisa court that does oversee this pushed back and said they needed to adjust what they were doing. It is still unsettling to many members of congress because its yet another new piece of information about how the nsa works. These are its own internal audits that were done. Edward snowden provided these documents at first to the Washington Post. The nsa is responding, although not going point by point through these new allegations but acknowledging that these kinds of mistakes do happen. When i contacted the nsa, they told me that the 2700 instances in one year was actually above average, higher than they normally see. So again, some of this is technical. Some of it is sort of kind of the every day messups that happen in a workplace. In this instance, its involving issues that are really sacred to people, privacy and what the government can know about us. Kelly odonnell, thank you so much. Do appreciate that. I want to bring in an attorney with the aclu for National Security programs. Thank you for joining us on a friday afternoon, sir. You guys have filed a lawsuit challenging the nsas phone surveillance program. What, if anything, do these new revelations mean for your case . Well, i think these revelations underscore the need for greater oversight over the nsa and greater scrutiny by the courts. The revelations really highlight a few things. First of all, its really shocking to see how many violations there were of surveillance laws that are extraordinarily per mmissiveper. These are laws that are hard to violate because they permit the nsa to do so much surveillance of Americans Communications when they go into and out of the country that its hard to understand how they violate them on average, if you take an average, about seven times every single day. But the other thing that the revelations really highlight, i think, is that theres a lack of real oversight both by congress but also by the foreign Intelligence Surveillance court, which is a secret court thats supposed to oversee the nsa. In a companion article to the one that youve been talking about, the chief judge of the court recognized that the fisa court is not doesnt have the a capacity to scrutinize the governments claims. Thats troubling. Lets talk about that. This article that you mentioned, it was published this week in the Washington Post as well. It focused on the fisa courts ability to oversee the intelligence community. Again, for our viewers at home, fisa oversees requests for surveillance warrants by federal Law Enforcement. In that article, quote, the chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Service court said that the court lacks the tools to independently verify how often the government surveillance breaks the courts rules that aim to protect americans privacy. Without taking drastic steps, it also cannot check the voracity of the governments assertions that the violations its Staff Members report are unintentional mistakes. Thats prettystriking. That is strikin b the central defense that the government has been making for years about these surveillance programs in fact, when this program was before the Supreme Court last year, the government argued, dont let the aclus clients challenge this program because we have a secret court thats doing the job of the courts as a whole. Now weve learned that court itself doesnt feel that it has the capacity to really meaningfully oversee the National Security agencys surveillance. Thats extraordinarily troubling. It signals we need to restore our system of checks and balances to keep our surveillance activities consistent with the constitution and consistent with the laws as congress wrote them. I want to play what president obama said a week ago at that News Conference at the white house and talk about it on the other side. Heres a snippet from the news room. I am comfortable that the program currently is not being abused. Im comfortable that if the American People examined exactly what was taking place, how it was being used, what the safeguards were, that they would say, you know what, these folks are following the law and doing what they say theyre doing. Thats the president august 9th. Now, while this report discusses specifically errors made by the nsa, with regards to what we just heard the president say there, whats the likelihood that he simply just didnt know about the errors . You know, i really cant say, but its very difficult to square his statement with what we now know. You know, its worth pointing out that apart from the violations, the real underlying problem with the nsa surveillance activities are not the abuses. Although these abuses are shocking and shock even those who have been studying this area for quite some time, the real problem are the underlying laws. Those laws allow the government to intercept the communications of americans. That is, to listen to our phone calls, read our emails in far more circumstances that the government has acknowledged in public. The American Public needs to understand the consequences for our privacy that the nsa surveillance activities have, but we cant really understand them with government officials using misleading descriptions of the programs, descriptions that later turn out not to be true at all. Alexander, thank you. Have a great weekend. Thank you. Oklahoma students are now halfway through their first day of school since losing seven classmates in that violent tornado back in may. Well go live to moore, oklahoma, after this. Also, the cia finally admitting that area 51 does exist. Newly declassified documents make no mention of aliens, though. So whats really there . Details in our news nation gut check. Dont forget, you can always join the conversation on twitter. You can find us newsnation. [ female announcer ] made just a little sweeter. Because all these whole grains arent healthy unless you actually eat them multigrain cheerios. Also available in delicious peanut butter. 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