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o do this massive bulk collection of all americans' phone meta data that means we are talking about phone numbers, the calls -- the caller's locations, the length of the phone calls, but not the content, they are not listening in on those calls. that's what will expire at midnight tonight or early tomorrow morning, what expires, but not just that, also roving wiretaps. at midnight, they could lose, if they don't extend this lawmaker lose the ability to track terror suspects who are frequently changing their cell phones so changing their communication device. also the lone wolf provision. that is a provision that allows the government to conduct surveillance on non-american citizens who are believed to be involved in terrorist activities but aren't linked to any specific known terror group. and of course, lone wolves, one of the fears we hear folks in the u.s. national security officials talk about a lot. those three provisions not just that one about phone data collection would expire if the senate doesn't act. >> and athena what do we expect to happen on the hill today where you are?
house. what a beautiful day on this friday before memorial day weekend. it's time now for the must-read opinion pages. i'm going to take this one from "the new york times" which writes in part this. a year ago it would have been unimaginable for the house to pass a bill to curtail the government's abusive surveillance practices. the documents leaked by edward snowden finally shocked lawmakers from both parties into action producing promises that they would stop the government from collecting telephone data of americans. unfortunately the bill passed be i the house on thursday falls far short of those promises. and does not live up to its title. the usa freedom act. because of the last-minute pressure from a recalcitrant obama administration, the bill contains loopholes that dilute the strong restrictions in an earlier version potentially allowing the spy agencies to continue much of their phone data collection.
obviously the oscars. it's too bad they can't collect some of this water because the drought will remain after the flood threats. here's what you need to pay attention to today beginning with deciding when to pull coalition troops out of afghanistan. th nato and the u.s. military are weighing two options. waiting for karzai to leave office or a plan for a complete withdrawal by december. the out going director of the nsa is suggesting the agency could make do with less phone data collection. he said it's essential to collect domestic data, but the same can't be said for all calls. he has forcefully defended the data collection since it was leaked by edward snowden. darren sharper now facing rape charges in a second state, louisiana. he turned himself into the lapd.
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wbr id="wbr61800"/> where they only talk about one side needing to de-escalate. this time both sides. >> that is the ukraine, now back to james clapper, director of national intelligence, made these candid remarks about the phone data collection by the government. this is what he said in this interview here. he said, "had we been transparent about this from the outset right after 9/11, we wouldn't have had the problem we had with the explosive public reaction." it is worth pointing out, phone data collection proceeds the obama administration, so clapper wasn't there to make those early decisions. do you think he's shoving blame for the heat east takhe's taken the bush administration here? >> obviously there's some of that, because he's talking about this needing to have been done ten years ago. but i think more theoretically, obviously, president obama could have come in and clapper, when he was appointed director of national intelligence, could have come in and announced that this program section 215, the collection of metadata, the /b>
i think it's a real lesson to us on a much broader basis that shows what happened in benghazi has still not been taken into account in american policy. we weren't careful before the attack. we didn't have resources to protect the people, under the attack when it was happening. and today, 15 months later, al qaeda, the perpetrators have not only not been brought to justice. there's been no retalyashz whatsoever. that's the real lesson. unfortunately, the lesson the terrorists have learned, which is you can attack the united states with impunity. >> and that apparently is what so far has happened. ambassador john bolton, early morning in los angeles on this sunday. always good for your insight and analysis. thank you, as always. >> thank you, eric. >> jamie. >> thank you, ambassador, as well. there are two cases related to the nsa spying scandal that could be headed to the supreme court because a pair of federal judges handed down opposing rulings on the constitutionality of the agency's phone data
he also called the government's phone data collection almost orwellian. president obama said the information was collecting information on who called who and where. >> nobody is listening to your telephone calls. that's not what this program is about. >> reporter: and that it's kept america safe. >> we know of at least 50 threats that have been averted because of this information. >> reporter: but judge leon said there is an utter lack of evidence that a terrorist attack has ever been prevented because searching the nsa database is faster than other investigative the ruling is a victory for fugitive nsa hacker edward snowden. the classified documents he leaked gave the first glimpse into the nsa surveillance. karen travers, abc news, washington. >> the nsa spying issue is one of the challenges faced by the new director of homeland
he also called the government's phone data collection almost orwellian. president obama said the information was collecting information on who called who and where. >> nobody is listening to your telephone calls. that's not what this program is about. >> reporter: and that it's kept america safe. >> we know of at least 50 threats that have been averted because of this information. >> reporter: but judge leon said there is an utter lack of evidence that a terrorist attack has ever been prevented because searching the nsa database is faster than other investigative the ruling is a victory for fugitive nsa hacker edward snowden. the classified documents he leaked gave the first glimpse into the nsa surveillance. karen travers, abc news, washington. >> the nsa spying issue is one of the challenges faced by the new director of homeland security. the senate approved jeh johnson's nomination yesterday. he's the first african-american