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Number two, we're talking about a government that has never been known, and notice the sarcasm in my voice, to misuse the data. the irs targeting of conservative and pro-israel groups which is still going on, by the way. so here the nsa -- the nra files an amicus brief because they're concerned that lawful gun owners whose data is being gobbled up by the nsa, but the expansion since 2009 under the prism program and the obama administration means that we have an out of control bureaucracy, and nsa that is not within the guidelines that were set forth for it to operate. bill: so you would argue ...

The past. heather: it puts our sources at risk as well. peter, you mentioned nsa. so i will just ask this question. what if it was edward snowden that had leaked all this information? >> well, i mean obviously that's troubling and people do know a lot more now about our intelligence collection programs. i mean obviously this is a devisive issue between civil libertarians and national security types. but the same sort of thing here, i believe that these programs are, you know, are legal, they're constitutional and they protect our national security. and as we've seen in the past, these have bro...

They're fascinating but the is we don't need to know them. the american people have a right to understand what we're doing overseas but this sort of stuff is so sensitive that we didn't need to know exactly how it came about. and of course, like i said, it can be tremendous damage. now whether this was intentional or not i'm not sure. but i am concerned that somebody may have intentionally disclosed this information, even given authorization to do so, perhaps, to defend nsa because the nsa program has been under attack recently but i don't think this was the nsa program that we've been speakin...

Learned all of our e-mails and phone calls and facebook messages are subject to being snooped on. i was talking about this with some friends and we started thinking is it even possible to live a normal life outside of the surveillance state? so for 24 hours last week ei decided i would try this out, wrap my cell phone in tin foil, would i wear the hat that you mentioned. so would i do everything that i could for 24 hours to avoid being surveilled and see what it did to my life. >> and we don't know the answer. is it possible to go off the grid, gillian tett? >> the answer is it's extremely dif...

Incident. leaders are on his side. they have asked for an apology and want the u.n. to investigate. as for snowden, could iceland be his new home? they are voting to give him citiz citizenship. six lawmakers out of 63 in the icelandic parliament back it. snowden is believed to be holed up at the airport in moscow. spying very much on the minds of our european allies. investigators met to discuss it. a high level meeting between the u.s. and european officials. now, france may have run their own prism program. they are reporting the data has been collected for years. let's turn to the hea...