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Edward snowden. judge richard leon ruled, quote, i cannot imagine a more indiscriminate and arbitrary invacation than this systemic collection of information on every single citizen without prior judicial approval. the author of our constitution, james madison, would be aghast. the judge also wrote that the government didn't criteria a single instance in which its analysis of the nsa's bulk data collection actually stopped an imminent attack. the ruling comes as the nsa faces increasing pressure from the obama administration which convened a pam of surveillance experts to consider reforms to t...

Agencies to reapply for authorization to carry out sweeping surveillance ever few months. now the bulk data collection was one of the biggest bombshells revealed by nsa leaker edward snowden this summer. the venezuelan navy obtained a ship with five u.s. citizens on board. the company that owns the oil ship says it was surveying the sea floor when it was stopped and forced to sail to the venezuela margarita island. the venezuela government claiming the ship was operating without authorization in its waters. the oil company spokesman are saying they are working to get the crew and the vessel ...

How these programs are conducted. to give people confidence that just because verizon or at&t gives bulk data collection to somebody, and i think there will be a debate on who will hold that information in the fall. but just because they give that information and might use it later to track a cell phone call once we know a suspect in yemen or somalia or something like that, that that isn't used in away that is ultimately nefarious or that we're listening to every one of these conversations. i listen to some of these debates and i wonder if you listen to these, you would think we must have a mi...

Isis may try to direct but what it's trying to do is inspire so these are inspired attacks, small, isolated groups where they are, where they live that understand the culture and understand in part how to terrorize those communities. >> so what would you need resource wise? if you had every -- is there enough resources you can have, the fbi could have, that could stop syed farook and his wife from doing this? >> this is a multifaceted plan and you don't have enough resources. off huge american population, a small, small, small subset that is radicalized and an even smaller subset that takes ac...

Deals with overseas calls to the united states. but what bulk data collection did was make the process more efficient so there were no silver bullets there but when you do have really tapped out resources to cover so many investigations it can help you move through and discard some faster. so in that regard it may have played not a major role but some supportive role. >> michael leiter, pete williams, thank you both. in what may be a preview of what the president will say tonight, president obama did address the investigation and terrorism in his weekly address this, of course, aired yesterd...