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national security agency collected information about americans' phone records without the authority to do so last fall. it happened months after the fed said they deleted a massive database of phone records that the nsa had improperly collected going back to 2015. we're just learning about this latest incident through documents made public in a lawsuit that the american civil liberties union filed against the nsa. the spy agency reportedly got the records under a controversial phone surveillance program launched following the attacks of 9-11. the former contractor, edward snowden exposed the program in 2013. it collects call records, but not the content of those calls. the jennifer griffin reporting live at the pentagon. jen? the records obtained by the aclu revealed that not once but twice in the past year the dnsa
post-presidential schedule. we wish him the very best. history unfolding in cuba. secretary of state john kerry traveling to the island nation tomorrow to raise the flag over the embassy in havana. it has been 70 years since a secretary of state made that visit. he will meet with the cuban foreign minister. the nsa has used the phone surveillance program to search for operatives of the iranian government and search for terrorists organizations linked to tehran. that's according to the new york times. sprint and at&t are listed as participants. the disclosure coming weeks before congress is scheduled to vote on a nuclear deal with iran. overnight in baghdad. 36 people killed when a bomb exploded in a crowded vegetable market.
facts are known next week. president obama calling the former president to wish him a speedy recovery and we do as well. history unfolding in cuba. secretary of state john kerry traveling to the island nation tomorrow. he will raise the american flag over the u.s. embassy in havana. it has been 70 years. kerry says human rights will be the top issue. kerry plans to meet with opponents of the cuban government. nsa used the phone surveillance program to find issues related to tehran and terrorist. sprint as at&t are listed in the operation. this comes weeks as congress will vote on the nuclear deal with iran. overnight in baghdad, at least 36 people killed when a bomb exploded in a crowded vegetable market.
getting a little bit of support there. >> yeah. i think it is possible. anything is possible. this from the associated press. just months before the edward snowden leaks there was a proposal circulating within the national security agency to kill secret phone surveillance program because some believed it wasn't worth the trouble. that proposal reportedly had been circulateing among top managers but it had not reached the desk of then nsa director general keith alexander. two former nsa officials tell the a.p. they doubt alexander would have approved it. this from "the washington post" as well. study published in the journal of marriage and family you is jest the amount of time a parent spends with their child has virtually no affect on how they turn out. >> dear lord. now they tell me 27 years later! i could have gone to the dog track. of course it makes a difference. >> you went to the dog track anyway joe. >> i could have taken my child to the dog track. >> no. of course, it's one of those confusing reports because you can read it pretty much anyway you want.
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hamid karzai. the president has ordered the pentagon to begin planning for a complete withdrawal. karzai has refused for months to sign the secured deal. it's the first time the two leaders have spoken since last june. new this morning, the white house says he considers four options for restructuring the national security agency phone surveillance program. this morning, "the wall street journal" is reporting the options range running it through telephone companies to ditching the program altogether. the company gets millions of phone records from three companies. last month, president obama asked the intelligence agency and the justice departments to come up with alternatives to take it out of the nsa's hands. new information about controversial cuts in the number of air marshals. the department cutting the number of air marshals. that's according to an internal dhs e-mail obtained by cnn.
clear to afghanistan, it's possible that it could make a deal with karzai's successor. until this point, they wanted karzai to sign. but clearly, relations between the two countries very contentious. >> the white house said to be considering four options for restructuring the national security agency's phone surveillance program. the options range from running it through telephone companies to ditching it altogether. the nsa gets millions of telephone records from three companies. last month president obama asked intelligence agencies and the justice department to come up with some alternatives that would take the surveillance out of the nsa's hands. new this morning, questions about controversial cuts in the number of federal air marshals. the department of homeland security trimming the number. that's according to internal vhs e-mail obtained by cnn. the exact number of marshals is a secret. and the department declined to say how many positions have been
feet. the president is now asking the pentagon to have plans in place for an orderly withdrawal by the end of the year. the white house is reportedly considering four options for restructuring the controversial phone surveillance program. one of the choices is scrapping the program all together. also, transferring the data collection operation to the phone companies or the fbi. the interim government has disbanded the riot police used in deadly confrontations with protestors. if they can ever locate yanukovych. for now, they have no jurisdiction over the ukraine. good news, new this morning, childhood obesity down 43 b% in the last decade. it focuses on 2 and 5 years of age. officials can't tell you exactly
in an online chat in response to the report, snowden said, quote, there is no justification for continuing an unconstitutional policy with a zero percent success rate. the obama team says the phone surveillance program did help disrupt one plot, the effort by a zazi. >> after he had given up his plot, returned to colorado. >> peter king from the homeland security committee disagrees. >> not just the actual threat you stopped. it's part of a mosaic, fills in blanks. >> reporter: king says the board is outside, does not know what qualifies these five people to decide what's legal and constitutional when all judges rulings have said the phone surveillance program is legal.
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