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Meta data program, that we can use a month traditional approach of going to the telephone companies when we have reasons to believe a number is connected with a terrorist plot. similarly i think he'll layout steps to bolster confidence both at home and around the world that the eavesdropping we're doing is focused on the bad guys, the people that mean to do us harm. those involved in terrorist plots and there is no desire nor intent to gather the communications of innocent people. so i want to hear him layout the case of how we're going to build that confidence. very important for the cooperat...

We weren't able to have that otherwise. >> do you really think, the truth is as ruth points out, we have no idea, but do you really think this hasn't damaged in any way these disclosures, the ability of our national security apparatus to actually accomplish some things truly in the name of protecting innocent people? >> jake, we do know. we do have that evidence. the federal court two weeks ago and president obama's own hand-picked panel that studied this for months and wrote a very detailed report both said that the administration keeps claiming these programs are necessary to stop terrorist ...

Metadata has not contributed significantly to the prevention of terrorist attacks in the united states or abroad. the panel delivers the 300-page report and 46 recommendations to the president. >> the message the nsa is now coming from every branch of government from every corner of our nation. nsa, you have gone too far. >> reporter: white house said president obama was studying the recommendations. over the summer, he defended the nsa phone record collection program as a key to preventing terror attacks. >> as i said, this program is an important tool in our effort to disrupt terrorist plots...

>> we think the so-called metadata has not contributed significantly to the prevention of terrorist attacks in the united states or abroad. the panel delivers the 300-page report and 46 recommendations to the president. >> the message the nsa is now coming from every branch of government from every corner of our nation. nsa, you have gone too far. >> reporter: white house said president obama was studying the recommendations. over the summer, he defended the nsa phone record collection program as a key to preventing terror attacks. >> as i said, this program is an important tool in our effort ...

Are all centered on valid foreign intelligence targets. have any terrorists, to your knowledge, actually been caught by doing this? >> not to my knowledge. there's been a great deal of effort, not just by nsa, but by the u.s. central command to try and put people pretending to be either gamers or, you know, people in chat rooms, otherwise seemingly unaffiliated with these groups to try and penetrate these networks, but rereally haven't seen either a, these online environments lid to terrorist plots, or, b, how much intelligence was really useful out of them. >> our thanks. new light on the c...