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Information so they can cross reference. you know, our i.r.s. filing with our citizenship, for example. as someone that's worked inside government as an ethical hacker, how much of a risk does something like that pose our personal security? >> any of these data bases is by definition a huge risk in terms of personal security. but it's also a huge benefit in terms of optimizing your experience because i don't know about you, but i've always hated going to the doctor's office and entering a thousand forms before i see a doctor. jenna: that's true. >> so these are both good and bad things and the...

E-mails in their data bases that they've collected over the last several years. what these programs are are very simple screens like the ones supermarket clerks or where all an analyst has to do is enter an i.p. address and it searches the data base and lets them listen to the calls or read the e-mails. >>kelly: has america turned into a place where our every move is being tracked now? let's bring in constitutional attorney and author of "of government of woes: the emerging american police state." pleasure to have you on, john. this is a provocative book. it is a book that when you read it or ...

City mayor that lists his birthday as 1942 making him 18 years younger and it's being etched. >>gretchen: he had a good sense of humor. probably wouldn't mind that much. more and more states are building massive data bases of drivers' license photos to help identify criminals. that means your d.m.v. photo is being saved into a data base where it is compared against a list of potential crooks. is that fair? is it legal? fox news senior judicial analyst andrew napolitano joins me now. >> the government will do whatever it can get away with to make its job a little easier. prior to 9/11 if you ga...

Contractor, he has been given -- by authority he means he's authorized to access these data bases and these technologies. and that there are tens of thousands of people in the nsa who are not accountable, who are authorized to do the same. everyone should go right now who's listening, go onto google and google 2008 abc news nsa abuse. and you will find stories there about low-level nsa analysts who abused these technologies to listen in on the conversations that soldiers were having with their girlfriends, that people they knew were having with one another internationally. it is a system that ...

Authority to do that. he is simply saying because i had i.t. access i could get into anything i wanted to get into, much like, say, people working in the irs used to be able to just look at your tax return if they felt like it even though they were not authorized to do it, the irs has since controlled that. but he's not saying he in any way could legally possibly been given that authority by anyone at the nsa to look at president obama's e-mail? >> precisely, lawrence. and you're making the important point. it's the point that he's making. it's the point that he wants everyone to understand. w...