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Seconds before impact. the u.p.s. cargo jet crashed near a runway in birmingham on wednesday and two pilots on board were killed. now investigators are looking into whether pilot error was to blame, including if the jet was too low. some lawmakers renewing calls to reform the national security agency's surveillance programs, this after documents leaked by edward snowden suggest that the agency has repeatedly broken privacy rules. now, the nsa calls them mistakes. jennifer griffin in washington for us with details. >> heather, the may 2012 internal nsa audit showed thousands of privacy violat...

Of our law makers. >> elizabeth, thank you. >> and turning now to the nsa and new reaction to the controversial secret surveillance programs. law makers on both sides of the aisle voicing concerns to the audit that revealed privacy rules were repeatedly violated and many of those violations never reported to congress and something that former governor mike huckabee said has to change. >> there has to be an unfettered way in which our elected officials are not trampling over all of the constitutional rights of americans. many of us believe they are. >> jennifer griffin has brand new details fro...

Has more from washington. >> the may 2012 internal nsa audit shows thousands of privacy violations in one year alone. in some cases the nsa was monitoring the phone records of residents of washington, d.c. whose area code is similar to that of egypt. nsa compliance director said the violations were not willful or malicious and represented a, quote, miniscule percentage of ofth sa surveillance activity during a rare conference call by the super secret spy agency. nsa whistle-blower edward snowden provided the documents months ago. nancy pelosi called the revelations extremely disturbing. democr...

Lead to terrorism. the tone that's coming out of the egyptian government is that this is an internal egyptian matter, that egypt has complete sovereignty over its domestic issues, it knows its country better than anyone else and it will push ahead with what it needs to do regardless of what any country tells it, especially if it's the united states, which traditionally and historically had tremendous amount of leverage over the previous regime of president hosni mubarak. >> well, in that way you have weird symmetry with the president saying egypt is in the hands of the egyptians and the egypti...

Woman saw her reputation allegedly destroyed by anonymous government officials? >> being in the position that mrs. kelly and her husband are in today is not certainly they asked for. they came forward to do the right thing, and everything that was unleashed from that point forward was a result of the government's lack of restraint and in protecting their privacy and dignity of the witnesses and victims here. >> the kelley's attorney explains the mess started in may 2012 when a four-star general, john allen, began receiving e-mails from kelleypatrol. the e-mail disparaged jill and referred spec...