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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 we really 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 ...

Either gamers or people in chat rooms otherwise seemingly unaffiliated with these groups to try and penetrate these networks but we really haven't seen that either, a, these sorts of online environments led to actual terrorist plots or, b, much evidence of how much intelligence was really usefully collected out of them. >> after 9/11, intelligence agencies were faulted for a failure of the imagination. here we are watching them and they're trying to rectify that. thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> thank you. when the very people responsible for this new culture of oversharing tell you y...

Hamburg, germany, a fact we tend to gloss over. top german officials admitted information from u.s. intelligence has disrupted several terrorist plots inside germany itself. this is a complicated picture. >> we're talking about millions of phone calls all in secret without the knowledge of those people in those countries on foreign soil. why is it -- why is it wronging to asking that question of whether or not this is legal or even right to do such a thing? >> well, i think legal is one question. spaunl is generally illegal when you're doing it. that's part of the rules of the game. that's why...

Keeping him in the dark. that raises questions of whether he's in an ivory tower, doesn't have a handle on what's going on. so that raises a lot of questions about his leadership, his administration, and i think when you look at what the allies are thinking, they're asking those questions, as well. >> elyse, just a quick follow up here. are there any allies the white house going back to them saying we share intelligence. this is a good thing for everybody. perhaps we've gone too far in listening in on personal cell phone calls but this is to protect all of our allies when it comes to going aga...

Phone calls in a single 30-day period. a spanish government spokesperson is quoted at saying today that's not what friends do to friends. and to germany, lock at the papers here. headlines screaming about u.s. surveillance of their chancellor there, angela merkel. today, washington is denying one german report that the president actually knew merkel's phone was tapped. and white house spokesman jay carney said the u.s. is just keeping up with new technologies helping keep americans safe. >> if we're going to keep our citizens and our allies safe, we have to continue to stay ahead of these chan...