Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20140117:16:42:00
Why is this necessary? the program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11. one of the 9/11 hijackers, khalid mindar, made a phone call from san diego to a known al qaeda safe house in yemen. nsa saw that call but it could not see that the call was coming from an individual already in the united states. the telephone metadata program under section 215 was designed to map the communications of terrorists so we could see who they may be in contact with as quickly as possible. this capability could also prove valuable in a crisis. for example, if a bomb goes off in one of our ...
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