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Bill: southern:florida. that storm -- southern florida, that storm dumped 15 inches of rain. there is nowhere to go. martha: there are questions about the nsa surveillance program and the massive amount of information the agent $i collects on millions of americans. democrats relied heavily on their own data mining projects and there are new concerns this information could be used for political purposes. here is catherine herridge on a story for "special report." >> reporter: with scandals like this many americans are questioning better it's open season on their personal data and there are ques...

Off. people in his own district and the amount of money the irs was abusing and wasting in california. when you come back to the story? cincinnati, how many questions has lois lerner answered? we found out friday there is an irs attorney who was calling the shots in d.c. where did the questions end i think is the question now. >> if you look at other information that emerged from the transcribed interviews they raised many more questions. you have individuals in the senate office say we are getting our information from d.c. we were being asked to provide 7 representative cases back to d.c. we ...

To keep us from threats. we have legal means by which to do that. but do we need to turn the country inside out and have the government accessing our reports on and you unprecedented scale? bill: what do you think government does with that information? >> they store it. bill: for what purpose? >> they might need it later to go back and look at it. bill: are you talking about my financial records in health records? tax returns? what is it? >> any record that would potentially be necessary for them to look at later. the mantra was after 9/11 simply get the today tap we'll figure out what we are ...

I think there has to be a greater trust and the on way you build a trust is to have that transparency and accountability. martha: this 29-year-old edward snowden self-professed whistleblower-leaker. he says i think the american people deserve to know their government is collecting this information or is he a leaker as mike rogers who needs to be prosecuted. we heard that the white house is beginning that process. >> if you are a whistleblower you don't believe the united states and go to a communist country. being a whistleblower is putting the information out and not running from the country....

He's done something for me want to run his name through the database. if you haven't done that, you have no ability to do that. >> okay, fair example. let's take boston. the russians that this guy was in litigation with people in chechnya. why would we not pick up her know that? >> we should have followed that particular lead. but again, you have to run that through a database. it is this kind of information and we don't know that for a number or e-mail address is linked to that particular suspect. until such time as we have a reason to run that name. but if you haven't collected any of those ...