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Was indicted on five counts of espionage. the government dropped the charges for him to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor of misusing a government computer. >> i continue to believe it was effective. it was lawful and it was appropriate. >> as the director of the nsa from 1999 to 2005 general michael hayden was drake and binney's boss. >> they may have a different view, god bless them, this is america, have a different view. i think it made america safe during a period of great danger. >> hayden says binney and drake were wrong, uninformed when they said the program was illegal. apparently ...

What it didn't know could hurt it very much. there was a a need to be up on enemy intelligence. >> this form of stretchry shall never again endanger us. >> after world war ii came the cold war and the threat of global communism. it sparked a fierce debate at the highest levels regarding is citizens' rights versus international security and rot of that debate ultimately came the national security agency or nsa. in the 1950s the spy center was so secretive the joke was the initials stood for no such agency. >> what did the president know and when did he know it? >> after watergate, however, peop...

Where it could be turned quickly and become a totalitarian state quickly. the capacity to do that is being set up. if we get the wrong person in office or are in government they could make that happen quickly. life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. we balance the three virtues all the time. the question people like me ask the american people is so how much more do you want me to do? >> what is in a government computer snow and how can this know it? with the nsa number we go to silly -- mum we go to silicon valley for answers. how many you have an iphone or eye pad or galaxy? put up your ha...

And money to create something new in politics. >> sort of created the perfect political corporation. >> sasha eisen berg literally wrote the book. by char nsa programmin nsacha a campaign made a profile of every single persuadable voter in the country and then with experiments borrowed from behavioral psychology they targeted people with personalized messages and coaxed them to the polls. >> voters are the guinea pigs. >> this was developed in this plain looking washington, d.c. office building home to the labor giant the afl-cio. inside a secret entity called the analyst institute. >> a conso...

About the nsa's vast capabilities to monitor what all of us do online which leads us to things like a massive data collection center being built in the utah desert. >> really a turnkey situation where it could become a totaltarian state quickly. >> how comfortable are you with the government able to know so much? that's next. [ male announcer ] i've seen incredib things. otherworldly things.