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Order needed to get its periodic legal rubber stamp from the justice department and john ashcroft was wicked sick. in the hospital. he appointed big tall james comey to be the attorney general instead. it would be comey who was going to have to sign off on it. the white house tried to go to james comey to get him to sign off on it and he wouldn't and then tried to go around him and have sick john ashcroft from his hospital bed authorize it and he raced them to john ashcroft's hospital room and sat by his bed and told the fbi agents not to let anybody in or out and wouldn't let it happen. that ...

More and there's the court, the secret court that signed off on this incredibly broad order that allows the government to sweep up information about everybody. every phone call you make. every -- how long is that phone call? who are you calling? maybe even the location information associated with the phone call. that's a lot of data. it's not just about suspected terrorists, it's about everybody. >> let me ask you about a statement that's come out tonight from an unnamed official because it's always an unnamed official. unnamed senior administration official telling reuters tonight the prism p...

Arab spring. of the companies named in these nsa documents published by "the post and "the guardian," five of the big names issued statements denying they participate in this program saying they do not provide the government direct access or some sort of secret back door to their servers. nevertheless, the nsa says they're in. both papers were apparently given access to what seems to be the same document or similar document. it appears to be a power point slide show used to train intelligence operatives of capabilities of this computer program called prism that allows officials to monitor not ...

"guardian" said the secret court ruling had been obtained but not how or from whom. the "new york times" says it was marked top secret/si/no foreign, which would make it, quote, mock the most closely held secrets within the federal government. and that court order is what the "guardian" released last night. and tonight released their own version of the prism story also in things with "washington post" including their own chunk of the actual slides from the secret powerpoint presentation. nbc news reporting tonight that us intelligence officials are reeling tonight after all of these leaks. pie...

Or that involve communications from the u.s. to a foreign country, key word there probably is "mainly oriented." either way, the program is one that american intelligence is relying upon with greater frequency. the post got its hand on an internal nsa report that describes it as the most prolific contributor to the president's daily brief citing it in nearly 1500 articles last year from prism and more than 77,000 intelligence reports in total cited the prism program as a source since data collection began in december of 2007. over 2000 prism reports issued every month. one career intelligence ...