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Of his not being afforded legitimate channels due to his status as a contractor. pulling back, 1.1 million u.s. government contractors have some kind of security clearance and access to see kret. are they all fertile ground for these leaks? i'm joined by william binny, long before edward snowden rocked headlines, and michael lighter, former director of the national intelligence center and can give a different take on this. william, you approve of what edward snowden did, correct by going to the media. but you think he went too far. why is that? >> i don't necessarily condone any kind of impl...

Capability, europe, that has been part of the sanctions, especially the strongest sanctions on energy, on gasoline will start investing there. so this probably would be a good sign for iran. now, if iran doesn't come through with these reductions in enriched uranium, continues its nuclear weapons programs, a lot of those investments will dry up. >> let's switch gears. i want to talk you about the president's nsa reforms. what's your take on them? >> well, i think the president did what he had to do, a balance between privacy and security. he basically is not changing much of these intelligence...

Update. we'll stay in close contact. dozens of recommendations for sweeping changes to the nsa, but how many if any will the obama administration heed? the uproar over the agency's most controversial surveillance program is heating up with some lawmakers calling for a high-level resignation. jim scuitto is joining us with the latest. jim? >> reporter: the white house says it's open to all 46 of these recommendation, but we have an early sense of the ones they are going to accept and not accept. we know they're open to white house approval being necessary for any monitoring of the communicati...

Brazil, john schindler, he actually says to brazil about these nsa programs, "these programs were never about terrorism. they are about economic spying, social control and diplomatic manipulation. they are about power." to say that these programs were never about terrorism is about one of the wildest things snowden has said. >> yeah, it is. and it tells me a lot that the brazilians immediately said, no, thank, we're not interested. look, what edward snowden has done is glom together a lot of different intelligence programs, glenn green wald has done the same, to be fair, some of them are about...

Just a quick response from you. are you on board with that? >> i think we should always review our intelligence programs because we have limited resources and they should be geared toward the most useful places. that being said, i do think some outrage by some leaders is designed to appease a domestic audience. the reality is if i travel abroad with my cell phone, i expect and can expect foreign intelligence services will try to monitor them. they do to so create knowledge about the way policy makers make decisions and so forth. so i think some of that stuff is a little bit overblown on their ...