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Around snooping at people's e-mails or listening to their phone calls. >> reporter: is that statement still opera tiff? ijts jim, what president president said was true. >> reporter: but cnn has also learned that the president was made aware of the broad parameters of the surveillance, a spy program the white house cautions stops terrorist threats. >> and late today, senate intelligence chair dianne feinstein did say this program on allies of the u.s., quote, will not continue, and we should also point out, wolf, that that goes further than what white house press secretary jay carney has said ...

More of a serious issue, that something like that, at that level would be conducted without him knowing it. let me just say, i support the nsa, i think that we should stop being defensive and apologetic. having said that, i don't believe -- i can't believe that he didn't know or he should have known or people very close to him had to have known. this is a key issue, which goes beyond the actual intelligence, and the president certainly should be aware of that. >> dianne feinstein, a woman you know, chair of the senate intelligence committee is fully briefed on all of these issues. she just iss...

Leading to one more u.s. ambassador summoned to explain. european officials tell me that nsa surveillance in spain and france only included metadata, not the content of the calls. still, it is spying on heads of state still causing the greatest outrage. senior administration official goes on to tell me it does not mean the nsa was going rogue or operating out of bounds, and that part of the review the administration is conducting is to ensure that intelligence agencies are getting quote, effective guidance from policy makers. so an admission there from the administration they were not getting ...