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updates by whisker priscilla alvarez at the white house, and this is cnn. you live in the cnn newsroom. i'm jim acosta in washington. we begin the hour with major damage control underway inside the u. s intelligence community right now , the pentagon is trying to assess the fallout of leaked classified documents. 21 year old jack tachira and air national guardsman is in custody and charged under the espionage act. the documents he is accused of leaking are considered highly classified and include eavesdropping on adversaries and allies alike. cnn's jeremy diamond joins us now over at...

Analysis that should have gone along with it and in the sense are all these programs desirable? do they have to have the magnitude that they do? what kind of results are they bearing? many of the overseas operations we do bear enormous fruit ask n and not only that, they do protect our allies and sometimes the allies benefit the most because we're able to tip them off on plots involving their capitals and their transportation systems, but they're a cost, too, as we saw in the whole flap over the alleged eavesdropping on chancellor merkel's phone. so i think we have to have a broad rethink of o...

Cha china, russia, al qaeda would follow suit. precisely because washington has to get its hands dirty, it should be smart about this. you don't stop terrorists in europe by listening in on angela merkel's cell phone. the rewards of spying on friendly heads of government are probably outweighed by the risks. and most troubling, it's not clear that many of these specific activities were clearly thought through and directed by the white house. nor do they appear to have been vetted by congress. in the wake of 9/11, america got scared and dropped any sense of constraints on its intelligence activ...

You don't stop terrorists in europe by listening in on angela merkel's cell phone. the rewards of spying on friendly heads of government are probably outweighed by the risks. and most troubling, it's not clear that many of these specific activities were clearly thought through and directed by the white house. nor do they appear to have been vetted by congress. in the wake of 9/11, america got scared and dropped any sense of constraints on its intelligence activities. it is not an accident that the eavesdropping on chancellor merkel began in 2002. the fact that technology now allows the nsa to ...