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National security entry-exit registration system, nsears. this was a completely failed counterterrorism tool. zero out of 93,000 people were actually convicted of terrorism. let me repeat that. there were 93,000 people who actually registered under this program and there were zero terrorism convictions that were yielded from this mass profiling program. >> i can hear some people saying that's because they knew they were fingerprinted and they would be interrogated and maybe this prevented them from committing crime. >> what the program showed after several years and the inspector general said ...

Lapsed at least for now. u.s. senators failed to extend provisions of the patriot act which gave the national security agency sweeping surveillance powers. >> government officials have been warning of serious national security consequences if the authorities expired. supporters like republican senator john mccain say america need this counterterrorism tool to keep groups like isis at bay. listen. >> we have seen events lately that are transpiring. isis has taken palmyra, they're in the streets burning bodies, killing people. going to destroy 2,000-year-old antiquities. at the same time ramadi ...

Acknowledgment jim, that the punishment was too light and that's likely why the judge upped the fee that he must pay to $100,000. jim? >> well, it's a remarkable fall. the former chief of the cia. pamela brawn, thanks for joining us. back to our big story today. three americans, one hostage and two al qaeda operatives were inadvertently killed by u.s. drone strikes in and around the afghanistan-pakistan border. that reigniting debate over the whole u.s. drone program. it has been a lightning rod for controversy for some time from the use of unmanned device edneds edned devices as a counterterr...

Post 9/11 era that this telephone data collection is an effective counterterrorism tool. >> we need to accept the fact that the more information we have about our enemies is plotting what they are planning on doing is very important and available to our intelligence community. the question is whether or not we can take this information and this vast amount of data and sift through it. can we analyze it? can we produce intelligence? in addition to that, it is very important that we have an adequate safeguard to ensure the privacy interest of innocent americans are not abused. so long as we can ...

Understand how such an important counterterrorism tool cannot be used by the ministration when you and the president claim bringing them to justice is such a high priority. the state department program awards just as often at the $25 million for the leads the capture of alleged terrorist overseas. state department at suspects after consulting with the fbi justice department, cia and national security council staff. this week fox news identified two key suspects, one believes to be former carrier in pakistan and the other a former bodyguard. this undercuts early claims by the administration tha...