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National intelligence james clapper, admitting he cannot guarantee america's secrets are safe. he says it would be impossible to prevent intelligence leaks by the likes of former nsa contractor edward snowden, telling the daily beast, quote, in the end, we will never, ever be able to guarantee there will not be an edward snowden or another chelsea manning because this is a large enterprise composed of human beings. bradley manning was sentenced to 33 years for leaking classified information. katherine harris is live for us in washington. katheri katherine, what can you tell us about clapper's ...

Classified material held by the ns sarks. the chairman of the house intelligence committee says the leaks are exposing secrets and the nation's adversaries are exposing those secrets. only a fraction of those cases benefited from this sweeping collections of american phone records. >> the scope the business record fisa * can deal with are those just over 10. it allowed us to form some of the dots. i think that's key in what we are trying to do. >> reporter: critics countered the sweeping phone records are not the tip in this investigation. bill: feinstein said the chase

We know president busht younger ordered foreign eachs be read by the ns sarks, but not e-mails from americans. this whistleblower says they are taking e-mails from americans and warehousing them. we don't know if that's true. but you know who knows? president obama knows. is it true or not. go out and tell everybody if it's true or not. now you are starting to see even the liberal supporters of president obama getting nervous because they can't defend them anymore. martha: i think we have a rasmussen poll then we have nbc. is the federal government a protector or threat to individual rights? t...

>> we have our intel committee that gets briefed but the full congress does not. that's why we have requested to be briefed tomorrow. we'll have a number of individuals coming down from ns sarks, the turn general's office and the fbi to walk through the entire congress members what is going on. there is a role for congress. we need checks and balances. we want to protect our civil liberties. we want to protect our nation from a terrorist attack. we need greater accountability and transparency. martha: do you think our government should be doing this? >> i have a real problem with it. i want to...