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>> the weapons are very precise, but at the end of the day, it's a human determination of who gets attacked and who gets droned. and you have people who are looking at lots of intelligence, but they are trying to read the intentions of somebody in waziristan before they've taken an action. >> this is more detailed information, this is a more detailed list than anybody outside the government has ever seen about how those -- what those things are that we have done, where we did them, and why we think we did them at the time. >> yeah. >> nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. thank y...

Under court order to fork over information on all the calls in its systems to the agency, both within the u.s. and between the u.s. and other countries. to be clear, it's the phone data that the government is getting, not the content of the calls. a senior administration official speaking on the condition of anonymity defended the practice as a critical tool of protecting the nation from terrorist threats. >> hurts the obama administration by feeding in to this belief that this government is too big, too massive. it plays right into the hands of the president's political opponents. >> so this ...

Terrorist we should kill. >> and that person would get listed as other militants killed? >> or foreign fighter, or they might, in this case, list them as al qaeda if they think they have enough evidence to link them to al qaeda, but it's subjective. >> yeah. >> the weapons are very precise, but at the end of the day, it's a human determination of who gets attacked and who gets droned. and you have people who are looking at lots of intelligence, but they are trying to read the intentions of somebody in waziristan before they've taken -- >> this is more detailed information, this is a more detai...

Terrorist we should kill. >> and that person would get listed as other militants killed? >> or foreign fighter, or they might, in this case, list them as al qaeda if they think they have enough evidence to link them to al qaeda, but it's subjective. >> yeah. >> the weapons are very precise, but at the end of the day, it's a human determination of who gets attacked and who gets droned. and you have people who are looking at lots of intelligence, but they are trying to read the intentions of somebody in waziristan before they've taken -- >> this is more detailed information, this is a more detai...

Machines. we already have the robot killers. the question is the autonomy. >> what we are stalking about here is the difference between the two is somebody gets pt sd with the mindful robot killing. my instinct is fear sky net and the other is fear a drone operator. the next is no more war because i am a peace hippie. >> and your fourth is you want to have sex with a fembot. >> i could go for chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. >> you could admit that it could minimize stuff like collateral damage because unlike somebody who is in the middle of something and has to think an operator back so...