Page 15 - Hand Ringing News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Circumstances where there hasn't been the hand ringing about setting a good precedent and setting a good example yet what mr. snowden did is colossal. >> coming from a criminal defense attorney's perspective, this may be a little strange. i don't think the nsa is a bad group of guys. they're out there, trying to protect what we need to protect. if everybody else in the intelligence community was acting by the same rules i would be okay with it. nsa is a necessary evil, if they're somewhat evil, because we're trying to keep up with other people who do not follow the rules. when someone like sno...

Congress, by engaging in illegal spying, by ordering the torture of prisoners. we haven't seen pro prosecutions of those officials or a lot of hand ringing about the precedent that's going to be set by not prosecuting those people. so, let's not get on a high horse and say, oh, dear, if we don't prosecute this person, we're going to set a bad precedent. that precedent has been set. the difference is that what edward snowden did, in violating the letter of the law, vastly impro improved the situation. what the officials did vastly harmed the u.s. in the world. >> edward snowden is doing what ma...

Transparent, that will be a sign things are better. i don't think that's going to happen. >> is the white house going to tough this out, march on, declir victory no matter what happened and just make sure that they can -- this will improve as it goes on? >> absolutely. i think that is indeed the plan to cram this down, push it through one way or another. until you get enough people on the subsidies, that will make it difficult to get them off. the problem with the strategy is a lot of people like the millennials or people losing their insurance are finding out that essentially obama care is a ...

>> there's no question after 34 years we haven't had much of a relationship with iran. the approach is a cautious approach. six months to come up with a final agreement that will, i'm sure, have some strong language in there for iran to halt it's entire program. but for now, this is an opportunity for iran to show and demonstrate to the world that they will not, you know, put together the -- all what i call the necessary material to build a nuclear bomb. they will be daily, not weekly, but daily inspections to make sure that this doesn't happen. this has to be verified. if it doesn't work, you...

Ripple effect that that could cause in the region given the dynamics between israel and a various number of entities. that being said, israel has unilaterally struck at targets in syria in the past. itis not an option that is off the table. again, it's a wait and see scenario. when it comes to the crisis in syria, it's time for the key players to put their national interests aside, find a shred of humanity and put a solution together. >> what can the international community do? we have heard the hand ringing and the condemnations of the assad regime, but what can they actually do? >> reporter:...