the carbon monoxide and fire hazard. jamie: definitely the time of year that s a great warning. everybody stay safe. gregg: the president s panel find no official wrongdoing occurred in the nsa sweeping surveillance practices. the president suggesting in his news conference he may do precisely that. will it be a mistake. former u.s. attorney general michael mukasey is here with us. before that he was a federal judge and handled terrorism cases. would it be a mistake for the president to make some of these recommended changes, especially about the metadata telephone collection? it would. telephone ma a data is the one
suggests the nsa collection program was not essential to collecting the data. they are talking about preventing an attack if it s imminent if the only shot that counts is the shot of the buzzer, there were a lot of shots before that. they found they did prevent attack and they were useful in investigating groups that were intent on making attacks. gregg: i know you saw the wall street journal, the front page. a 30-year veteran. he said the agency is absolutely drowning in this metadata. he calls it useless data which harms their ability. let many put it up on the screen. what they are doing is make themselves dysfunctional at the nsa.
mistake? if people are worried about being spied on private companies are doing far more than the united states government or other governments are doing. government gathering of data is important to keep the country safe. edward snowden has done damage to that and i consider him a terrorist and he ought to be locked up in jail. he says a child born today in the message will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. is he overstating that? he is probably right in the sense that we do have little privacy with this meta gartherig of data. for edward snowden to say this in russia, a place with no freedom, for him to take asylum