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China has imprisoned dozens of journalists on charges of revealing state secrets. russia has a brutal record of discrediting, harassing, and beating journalists and anti-government activists as well as stealing super bowl rings. ecuador's president has intimidated critics by pressing criminal libel charges against him. snowden is giving any country he hides in more leverage in their dealings with the u.s. when it comes to russia, those dealings include trying to find a way out of the civil war in syria. look, snowden reportedly has more information with him. u.s. state secrets that he says are...

Resigned and kept his clearance, later taking a job with the nsa. the cia declined to comment on the snowden case. citing a lack of resouerss and with more than 4 million people holding clearances, most background investigations are incomplete. >> so we could potentially have 86% of investigations incomplete and then security clearance is granted. that's probably what's happening. right sfl. >> reporter: in a push for greater transparency, a bipartisan house bill now calls on attorney general holder to declassify the secret legal opinions from the fisa courts with which allow the nsa to collec...

This is "a," incredibly damaging. this is incredibly damaging, and this person is a traitor to the united states of america. people will because that authority for nebraska fafariou purposes. >> a case of the debate going on in both parties about the government's sweeping surveillance program. congresswoman hartmon from capitol hill, where do you come down on the nsa programs, and how do you respond to the critics on both sides that say it is to intrusive on millions

Felt like the president is talking about, this is the new normal. this is the reality and we have to be prepared to deal with this on a day-to-day basis. that's why we have the nsa programs, for example. in the bush years, the things that they were doing on in secret depended on the idea we have this global war on terror with this unseen foes, if you will. where i think now we are in a different place. >> the first thing about what cheney said today is that cheney seems to define any muslim entity that he doesn't like as a terrorist group. and you can have all kind of concerns about muslim bro...