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Call from san diego to a known al qaeda safe house in yemen. nsa saw that call. but could not see that the call was coming from an individual already in the united states. the telephone metadata program, under section 215, was designed to map the communications of terrorists, so we can see who they may be in contact with as quickly as possible. >> all right. so when you heard that, peter, you're an expert on this subject. what did you think? >> you know, the real problem in this case was this khalid al madar was known to be in this country by the cia. and the real problem was not that cia miss...

And procedures in place to provide greater transparency to our surveillance activities. and fortify the safeguards that protect the privacy of u.s. persons. since we began this review, including the information being released today, we've declassified over 40 opinions and orders of the foreign tell against surveillance court which provide judicial review of some of our most sensitive intelligence activities including the section 702 program targeting foreign individuals overseas and the section 215 telephone metadata program. in going forward i'm directing the director of national intelligence...

Having is commendable. and i think we shouldn't conflate all this. the telephone metadata program geared at foreign terrorists is one thing. congress has a couple of approaches to narrow it. i don't think it should be eliminates because i think it will be back bigger than ever if we get attacked. there's a separate thing, an executive order. i write about this in today's "washington post." >> it's a great piece. >> thank you very much. it was issued by president reagan and has been updated a couple of times, that authorizes our government to listen, to learn foreign government's intentions. th...

Fo -- discomfort of a broad nature of the telephone metadata program which is under 702 and he had an hour and a half meeting with senator durbin and that meeting last and a hour and a half with a bipartisan group speaking to him about the ways to narrow the number of years that the telephone records are kept or whether some other record keeping should keep place external to the government. >> right. >> what do you as a former intelligence officer think about the discomfort that the comma commander in chief clearly has and that members of congress now have? >> look. i was in the white house, a...

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