the n.s.a.? >> for 25 years. >> miller: how many television interviews have you done? >> one, this one. >> miller: it's the most secretive spy agency in america, but the n.s.a. opened its doors to "60 minutes," and we talked to people who have never spoken publicly and brought our cameras into places that no one without a secret clearance has ever been. >> the pakistani government has asked the u.s. government to relook its drone policy. >> miller: it's been said n.s.a. stands for "never say anything," until now, at a time when there are a lot of serious questions about the agency's reach into the lives of the american public. >> the fact is, we're not collecting everybody's email, we're not collecting everybody's phone things, we're not listening to that. our job is foreign intelligence and we're very good at that. >> simon: like the greeks and the russians, copts are orthodox christians. but they have one thing in common with the roman catholics- - they elect a pope. the final choice is made b

job for the n.s.a. and since it was a p.r. job the n.s.a. was spared tough questions and given a platform to distort the claims made against the agency by the edward snowden documents an essay can only target the communications of a u.s. person with a probable cause finding under specific court order today we have less than sixty authorizations and specific persons to do that he actually was asked whether they collect content and responded by by addressing whether they target americans which are different things because some of the biggest programs that collect content targeted on a foreigner say bad somali terrorists guy and any americans whose communications who are communicating with that bad smelly terrorist guy will also be collected the n.s.a. is legally allowed to take three hops from any target and peer into the communications of individuals who talk to individuals who talk to individuals who talk to targets that could include millions of people including americans and then there are other ways we know for example that the n.s.a. col

the n.s.a. as he put it has indiscriminately and charlie invaded our privacy in direct violation of the fourth amendment it's not that we should cut a deal with edward snowden we should praise him welcome him home for exposing what would i call incipient fascism is like when the government has all kinds of information on all kinds of people and can use it for all kinds of purposes ok timothy but well there are voices in the n.s.a. that think that they the government should talk to mr snowden in principle i agree with ray don't get me wrong here but cutting a deal is what's being talked about meaning no more leaks and you will clear your name ok this is the kind of deal and i'm not saying it's the best deal but it is a deal that's being talked about timothy go ahead well i would say that they don't need to strike a deal at all the whole premise of the charges against edward snowden are bogus that that he shouldn't be. under. possible criminal charges possible criminal acts from the department of

yes of the n.s.a. to spy on key trading partners steve what has been the reaction in canada to a lot of these revelations since june and how does this latest leak maybe change their reaction can we expect some fallout out of this leak with canadian canada's allies. i think for sure and i think canadians domestically have been increasingly alarmed tens of thousands of people have reached out to lawmakers to call for more oversight and really what it comes down to is trust i mean and this latest revelation. can a canadian spy agency is in our kind of embassies are being used at the behest of the us n.s.a. for spying on our allies is just making that worse and i mean our government warning answer better basic questions like how many canadians are swept up in the surveillance what information do they have on us how secure are those databases is that information being shared with other countries like the u.s. you know the n.s.a. and other countries so basically what is happening and so far the government ha

i'm working to improve the n.s.a. i'm still working for the n.s.a. right now they are the only ones who don't realize that this doesn't have anything to say about the current reform efforts underway on capitol hill or. the courts or and a thing of that nature well it's interesting he clearly has his own views about what ought to happen what he most wants to make sure is that there can be an open debate about that with full knowledge so it was all in a secret court it was in a very small committee of congress for example members of congress rely on their staffs there were there maybe one in ten members of congress has a staffer who was cleared for material at the level of secrecy that this stuff was kept some of them didn't understand very much about what was going on. we spoke just before very big week for in that vindicated many of his assertions that he has said all along he believes that some of the programs at the n.s.a. are illegal well soon after we spoke a federal judge the first one to consider it in open court says. one of the main programs

government the n.s.a. thought it would be fun to try to discredit these individuals so that they could be less effective by embarrassing them by showing possibly exposing that they look at porn so this goes against their religious values. real slippery slope they're having as you just mentioned i mean that's really really shocking. i don't even know what to say about that let's move on from the time let's talk about the fact that the media is completely shifted over from really talking about anything and as i say to now just completely obamacare and also just seems like not only the media coverage of the public pressure on the n.s.a. is really subsided since the bulk of the leaks came out is the public just jaded i mean what chance do you think that the wall see legislation passed in the near future as we know they have been nearly passed last time that will actually limit the n.s.a. has powers we have about a minute left but what i said to that is that there are many many more and they say stories to be c

to talk about what the n.s.a. leadership thinks they do as an agency and let's go through some of the specific points outlined in the memo number two claims that quote the n.s.a. performs its mission the right way lawful compliant and in a way to protect civil liberties and privacy kevin what's your response. in the story that i wrote i did a full deconstruction of each of the talking points and for this one i highlighted a foreign intelligence surveillance court opinion that. there had been instances of another electronic surveillance this was about a year it was twenty and they were looking at the collection of e-mails the program notes collecting in. communications and found that the n.s.a. was. becoming their routine leave making misstatements not representing accurately the restraints that they had put on the collection of the internet communications but also when making the representation they were going beyond what they had told the court so they were engaging in the collection of communications that they w

job for the n.s.a. and since it was a p.r. job the n.s.a. was spared tough questions and given a platform to distort the claims made against the agency by the edward snowden documents and i say can only target the communications of a u.s. person with a probable cause finding under a specific court order today we have less than sixty authorizations and specific persons to do that he actually was asked whether they collected content and responded by by addressing whether they target americans which are different things because some of the biggest programs they collect content targeted on a foreigner say bad somali terrorist guy and any americans whose communications who are communicating with that bad smelly terrorist guy will also be collected the n.s.a. is legally allowed to take three hops from any target and peer into the communications of individuals who talk to individuals who talk to individuals who talk to targets that could include millions of people including americans and then there are other ways we know for example that the n.s.a.

n.s.a. is ripping a page from online advertisers to bolster its own surveillance capabilities meanwhile hundreds of prize winning authors are adding their voices to the growing concern over n.s.a. surveillance that and much more just ahead and on capitol hill a hearing was held on past and future u.s. afghanistan relations so does this mean u.s. troops could remain in afghanistan beyond the planned two thousand and fourteen pullout the latest on that hearing coming up and the nation's capital is marked with a series of local police scandals multiple officers have been investigated for corrupt activities with one of them committing suicide more on the police corruption in d.c. later in the show. it's wednesday december eleventh eight pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sachs and you're watching r.t. now today on capitol hill the chief of the n.s.a. general keith alexander fielded questions from lawmakers on the senate judiciary committee the focus of the hearing was continued oversight of u.s. gove

when n.s.a. is conducting massive daily dragnet intrusions on everyone's privacy i think if you really want to eliminate insider threats people are not trying to reveal private information whistleblowers like thomas drake and bill binney and kirk we be and edward snowden are all n.s.a. where n.s.a. contractors who are trying to reveal illegal programs and that's quite different and you need to have meaningful effective whistleblower reform which national security and intelligence whistleblowers have none now obviously a lot of people are very happy about this report as you said it is more far reaching than a lot of people anticipated glenn greenwald himself is very happy about this but at the end of the day these are only recommendations how likely do you think it is that the n.s.a. or the white house will take up any or all of them. you know i. it's ironic that president obama is going to be contemplating these recommendations during his time in hawaii where edward snowden is from i am dishearte

and working to improve the n.s.a. i'm still working for the n.s.a. right now they are the only ones who don't realize it did so and have anything to say about the current reform efforts underway on capitol hill or. the courts or anything of that nature well it's interesting he clearly has his own views about what ought to happen what he most wants to make sure is that there can be an open debate about that with full knowledge so it was all in secret court it was in a very small committee of congress for example members of congress rely on their staffs there were there maybe one in ten members of congress has a staffer who was cleared for material at the level of secrecy that this stuff was kept so most of them didn't understand very much about what was going on. we spoke just before very big week for in the indicated many of his assertions that he has said all along he believes that some of the programs at the n.s.a. are illegal well soon after we spoke a federal judge the first one to consider it in open court says. one of the main programs of the n

you know the n.s.a. and other countries so basically what is happening and so far a government has been really tight lipped they won't tell us what's happening here and the fact that we hear now that some of this spying is going on for the basically the n.s.a. is telling our country what to do and who. just makes the concerns grow even stronger. the five hundred authors who are calling on the u.n. to pass this new international charter to protect civil liberties in the digital age what do you think something like that looks like and how does that jive with what we're seeing on a country by country level like brazil trying to wall off its internet what are the two avenues here that which one should we take which one would work which one doesn't work. you know i think we definitely need domestic legislation. and really most countries around the world to rein in the surveillance i think that it's out of step with basic basic understanding in expectations for the right to privacy so you need that in canada y

where n.s.a. contractors who are trying to reveal illegal programs and that's quite different and you need to have meaningful effective whistleblower reform which national security and intelligence whistleblowers have none that was just right at the national security and human rights director at the government accountability project well amnesty international released a report today describing serious of uses of human rights committed in detention facility is run by the islamic state of iraq and or the i.s.i. yes for a closer look at the report artie's focused alina nasser a researcher for amnesty international. there is widespread torture torture of adults including and also children the most common form of torture is a floodgate. flogging against detainees take place on a daily. on a daily every day basically it includes flogging against children we have witnesses former detainees who told us that they have seen the children as young as thirteen to fourteen being flogged scores of times the deta

also n.s.a. through 702 coverage of an al-qaeda affiliated terrorist found that headley was working on a plot to bomb a danish newspaper office that had published the cartoon depictions of the prophet muhammad. headley later confessed to personally conduct surveillance of the danish newspaper office. he and his coconspirators were convicted of this plot. lastly the f.b.i. opened an investigation shortly after 9/11. we did not have enough information nor did we find links to terrorism so we shortly thereafter closed the investigation. however, the n.s.a. using the business record fisa tipped us off that this individual had indirect contacts with a known terrorist overseas. we were able to reopen this investigation, identify additional individuals through the legal process and were able to disrupt this terrorist activity. >> now in order -- the way it works, is the -- there is an application that is made about it f.b.i. under the statute to the fisa court, we call it the fisk. they ask for and rece

the n.s.a. the n.s.a. tells us they are not doing something and then we found out they are totally doing it. [ laughter ] for instance, -- >> nobody is listening to to your telephone calls. >> jon: turns out they are totally listening to your telephone calls. they storing them in this giant utah fortress of surveilitude. next. >> with respect to the internet and e-mails, this does not allow to united states citizens. >> jon: go on. >> the obama administration quietly won permission a couple years ago from a surveillance court to have the n.s.a. search for the communications of americans intercepted phone calls and the like. >> jon: on the bright side, under this plan, if you like your n.s.a. spy -- [laughter] -- you get to keep your n.s.a. spy so that is something. [ laughter ] but of course the government -- >> his no idea we could keep our same spy. that is shock and delightful. [laughter] but of course the government couldn't get away with doing things that they swore they weren't doing becau

meanwhile the man who brought edward snowden's n.s.a. documents to the world glenn greenwald testified today in front of a european union parliament committee looking into n.s.a. surveillance on e.u. citizens and you had some harsh words for governments working with the n.s.a. . and governments are devoted to the elimination of hard to see what is the u.s. the u.k. means three partners are clearly devoted to doing that has profound consequences but we're everybody who communicates electronically or greenwald who's in possession of the cache of n.s.a. documents obtained by edward snowden revealed what he believes to be the n.s.a. the ultimate goal and he also made it clear what the that the n.s.a. his activities go far beyond counterterrorism. throughout b. and s. a guy. here is teaching us all sorts of references to the fact that the goal of the n.s.a. is captured by the phrase call out in all yesterday in an interview with a.b.c. news greenwald promised a more reporting on the n.s.a. noting that only a small fraction of the documents ha

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the n.s.a. as he put it has indiscriminately and charlie invaded our privacy in direct violation of the fourth amendment it's not that we should cut a deal with edward snowden we should praise him welcome him home for exposing what what i call incipient fascism is like when the government has all kinds of information on all kinds of people and can use it for all kinds of purposes ok timothy even when there are voices in the n.s.a. that think that they that the government should talk to mr snowden i in principle i agree with ray don't get me wrong here but. cutting a deal is what's being talked about meaning no more leaks and you will clear your name ok this is the kind of deal and i'm not saying it's the best deal but it is a deal that's being talked about timothy go ahead well i would say that they don't need to strike a deal at all the whole premise of the charges against edward snowden are bogus that he shouldn't be. under. possible criminal would be in charge of possible criminal acts from t

government the n.s.a. thought it would be fun to try to discredit these individuals so that they could be less affected by embarrassing them by showing possibly exposing that they look at porn so this goes against their religious values. real slippery slope they're having as you just mentioned i mean that's really really shocking. i don't even know what to say about that let's move on from the time let's talk about the fact that the media is completely shifted over from really talking about anything as say to now just completely obamacare and also just seems like not only the media coverage of the public pressure on the n.s.a. is really subsided since the bulk of the leaks came out is. the public just jaded i mean what chance do you think that the wall see legislation passed in the near future as we know they are marching amendment nearly passed last time that will actually limit the n.s.a. has powers we have about a minute left but that is that there are many many more and they say stories to be coming ou

reforms and of course the n.s.a. review panel released its findings this afternoon calling for broad changes to surveillance programs so change may actually be coming to the n.s.a. after all. now on to ukraine where the united states is trying to influence the protests that have been seen on the streets in that country over the last month senator john mccain went on one of his famous or infamous diplomat kiev where he met with opposition leaders and protesters and pushed for closer ties with the european union mccain whether the state department likes it or not has become a maverick ambassador to the world in recent years though often with not so satisfactory results as abby all hisor points out this week in the wire when john mccain comes to town talking freedom disaster ensues most recently mccain was in cairo august following the egyptian military coup since then protests have continued in that country as well as the violent crackdown now the former democratically elected president mohamed morsi is facing terroris

government the n.s.a. thought it would be fun to try to discredit these individuals so that they would be less affected by embarrassing them by showing possibly exposing that they look at porn so this goes against their religious values. real slippery slope they're having as you just mentioned i mean that's really really shocking. i don't even know what to say about that let's move on from the time let's talk about the fact that the media is completely shifted over from really talking about anything as say to now just completely obamacare and also just seems like not only the media coverage of the public pressure on the n.s.a. is really subsided since the bulk of the leaks came out is the public just jaded i mean what chance do you think that the wall see legislation passed in the near future as we know they are marching amendment nearly passed last time that will actually limit the n.s.a. has powers we have about a minute left but what i say to that is that there are many many more and they say stories to

government the n.s.a. thought it would be fun to try to discredit these individuals so that they would be less affected by embarrassing them by showing possibly exposing that they look at porn so this goes against their religious values. real slippery slope they're having as you just mentioned i mean that's really really shocking. i don't even know what to say about that let's move on from the time let's talk about the fact that the media has completely shifted over from really talking about anything as say to now just completely obamacare and also just seems like not only the media coverage of the public pressure on the n.s.a. is really subsided since the bulk of the leaks came out is the public just jaded i mean what chance do you think that the wall see legislation passed in the near future as we know they are marcia amendment nearly passed last time that will actually limit the n.s.a. has powers we have about a minute left but what i say to that is that there are many many more and they say stories to

and working to improve the n.s.a. i'm still working for the n.s.a. right now they are the only ones who don't realize it did not have anything to say about the current reform efforts underway on capitol hill or. the courts sort and a thing of that nature well it's interesting he clearly has his own views about what ought to happen what he most wants to make sure is that there can be an open debate about that with full knowledge so it was all in the secret court it was in a very small committee of congress for example members of congress rely on their staffs there were there maybe one in ten members of congress has a staffer who was cleared for material at the level of secrecy that this stuff was kept so most of them didn't understand very much about what was going on. we spoke just before very big week for in that vindicated many of his assertions that he has said all along he believes that some of the programs at the n.s.a. are illegal well soon after we spoke a federal judge the first one to consider it in open court says. one of the main programs

the n.s.a. as he put it has indiscriminately and charlie invaded our privacy in direct violation of the fourth amendment it's not that we should cut a deal with edward snowden we should praise him welcome him home for exposing what what i call incipient fascism is like when the government has all kinds of information on all kinds of people and can use it for all kinds of purposes ok timothy it well there are voices in the n.s.a. that think that they the government should talk to mr snowden i in principle i agree with ray don't get me wrong here but cutting a deal is what's being talked about meaning no more leaks and you will clear your name ok this is the kind of deal and i'm not saying it's the best deal but it is a deal that's being talked about timothy go ahead well i would say that they don't need to strike a deal at all the the whole premise of the charges against edward snowden are bogus that he shouldn't be. under. possible criminal charges possible criminal acts from the department of j

job for the n.s.a. and since it was a p.r. job the n.s.a. was spared tough questions and given a platform to distort the claims made against the agency by the edward snowden documents and i say can only target the communications of a u.s. person with a probable cause finding under a specific court order today we have less than sixty authorizations and specific persons to do that he actually was asked. whether a bit collect content and responded by by addressing whether they target americans which are different things because some of the biggest programs they collect content targeted on a foreigner say bad somali terrorist guy and any americans whose communications who are communicating with a bad somali terrorist guy will also be collected the n.s.a. is legally allowed to take three hops from any target and peer into the communications of individuals who talk to individuals who talk to individuals who talk to targets that could include millions of people including americans and then there are other ways we know for example that the n.s.a. co

the n.s.a. as he put it has indiscriminately and charlie invaded our privacy in direct violation of the fourth amendment it's not that we should cut a deal with edward snowden we should praise him welcome him home for. exposing what what i call incipient fascism is like when the government has all kinds of information on all kinds of people and can use it for all cards purposes ok timothy but well there are voices in the n.s.a. that think that they the government should talk to mr snowden i in principle i agree with ray don't get me wrong here but cutting a deal is what's being talked about meaning no more leaks and you will clear your name ok this is the kind of deal and i'm not saying it's the best deal but it is a deal that's being talked about timothy go ahead well i would say that they don't need to strike a deal at all the whole premise of the charges against edward snowden are bogus that he shouldn't be. under. possible criminal would be in charge of possible criminal acts from the depart

on the n.s.a.'s activities and to recommend any changes in thought were needed to protect civil liberties the white house released that panel's report on wednesday the report makes over forty different recommendations on how the n.s.a. can keep its programs under control the most important of which deal with how the agency goes about collecting the phone records or mete data of americans and foreigners alike it urges the agency to shut down its database of phone records and metadata to allow meditated to remain under the control of third parties like phone companies to get court approval before it searches through metal among other things it also recommends that a privacy advocate be placed on the foreign intelligence surveillance court the feis accord court that okays the n.s.a.'s spying programs and urges the n.s.a. to stop creating tools to hack into encrypted software panel wrote the report was mostly made up of former intelligence officers people like richard clarke and for people like clarke w

more bulk collection at the n.s.a. and no more backdoor searches the events of the week have the biggest offenders of the n.s.a. walking back their die hard support the chairwoman of the senate intelligence committee senator dianne feinstein on this program in conjunction with other programs helped keep this nation safe i'm not saying it's indispensable and it's also embolden senators who've been pushing legislation is significantly restrain the n.s.a. senator rand paul after monday's court decision the n.s.a. phone surveillance program is. then vision of our privacy this ruling reminds the federal government that it is not above the law and senator ron wyden after the white house report was released on wednesday when combined with the u.s. district court ruling on the likely unconstitutionality of bulk phone collection earlier this week this report will help to galvanize support for surveillance reforms both with the public and within congress so where do things go from here well in the courts as a result of this week

>> were you talking about the n.s.a. a little while ago. >> jon: yes. >> stephen: the nas yeah needed -- in those days there were no satellite. they needed a ground base from where to spy on the soviet union and pakistan offered them one. the flights used to take off from a place near persona war in pakistan. those kind of advantages are the quid pro quo but the cost it has been enormous. pakistan is a -- has become a dysfunctional country. almost 42% of the pakistani school age children don't good to school. you had malala here whom is vilified in pakistan by some people. the islamist fundamentalists who were trained and armed to fight the soviets in afghanistan have become a nuisance for the united states globally and a real threat to afghanistan, pakistan and india. the problem has been that pakistan leadership always focused on one thing which was how to make pakistan militarily equally to indian. the americans assumed if we just give them enough military equipment they'll turn away from that purpose. that was a mist

n.s.a. surveillance of foreign leaders this time looks like our neighbors to the north helped us spying on the heads of state during the twenty ten g. eight and g. twenty summits in canada for the expansion of international surveillance going up and orange county police officers are on trial over the death of a local homeless man for months now there's been video showing how kelly thomas was beaten and tasered by officers before his death the latest on the case later in the show. it's monday december second four pm in washington d.c. i'm megan lopez and you are watching r t well topping the news this hour a federal district court in san francisco is hearing the case today a woman who has been fighting to remove her name from the terror watch list for over eight years now it's a list that's easy to get your name on but almost impossible to get your name off of stanford university ph d. student ruhani. eager to hear what was boarding a flight home to malaysia from the san francisco internation

and just when you thought those n.s.a. leaks were almost done glenn greenwald has said they are far from over just today a german newspaper revealed new documents regarding the n.s.a.'s top team of hackers an inside look at the agency's growing scope with surveillance coming up. it's monday december thirtieth four pm in washington d.c. i'm in the area david in you're watching our team we begin today with the explosion that ripped through a trolley bus in the russian city of volgograd fourteen people were killed and twenty eight injured marking the second attack in just twenty four hours authorities say a suicide bomber is behind this latest explosion which left mangled bodies on the street and raise fears about more violence in the lead up to the sochi winter olympics which russia is set to host in just six weeks artie's margaret howell was on the scene of the attack and brings us more. i am here in the marketplace where that troll a bus exploded this morning at eight thirty in the morning causing massive deaths bodies eve

intervention in syria the latest n.s.a. revelations artie's sam sachs has more proud buchanan he served in three presidential administrations he ran for president three times but he's no stranger to controversy i sat down with him to talk about the world as it is today we started with how the office of the presidency has changed in recent years one of. the fact that the congress has abdicated its war powers and that's why one of the best things that happened this summer was when the american people rose up and in effect said we don't want this war on syria that we decide day of drawing redlines in the sun had from the oval office is preposterous in a democratic republic as a small government conservative what do you make of these revelations that have come out about the n.s.a. . well. we have a big government. does it make you uncomfortable. you think this is something that is necessary i may not like the world i'm embedded in the thing i can do about it i mean you got there so they got my e-mails they got my phone calls th

parliament committee glenn greenwald shared what he believes to be the n.s.a.'s ultimate goal we'll tell you what he said just ahead and senator john mccain goes rogue again overseas his trip to ukraine is the latest senator traveling to troubled nation is to exert foreign influence more on the maverick and his thirst for war coming up. and a u.s. senator releases a report on wasteful federal spending the waste book two thousand and thirteen covers everything from military spending to tax breaks brothels and an in-depth look at government wasteful spending is coming up later in the show. it's wednesday december eighteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sax and you're watching our team and we begin with the man who brought edward snowden's n.s.a. documents to the world glenn greenwald he testified today in front of a european union parliament committee looking into n.s.a. surveillance on e.u. citizens and he had some harsh words for the european governments working with the n.s.a. . and governments are devoted to the elimination of privacy worldwide is the u.

on the n.s.a.'s activities and to recommend any changes in thought were needed to protect civil liberties the white house released that panel's report on wednesday the report makes over forty different recommendations on how the n.s.a. can keep its programs under control the most important of which deal with how the agency goes about collecting the phone records or mete data of americans and foreigners alike it urges the agency to shut down its database of phone records and met a data to allow meditated to remain under the control of third parties like phone companies to get court approval before it searches through metadata most other things it also recommends that a privacy advocate be placed on the foreign intelligence surveillance court the feis accord court that okays the n.s.a.'s spying programs and it urges the n.s.a. to stop creating tools to hack into encrypted software panel wrote the report was mostly made up of former intelligence officers people like richard clarke and for people like c

all those jokesters at the n.s.a. just playing around with the financial system for fun and finance a game i thought the reason they were involved in all that invasive technologies tuesday was to keep us safe well remember they've denied that they were involved in corporate espionage but in this latest report investigating n.s.a. activities and what should be done about it something has emerged in one of the recommendations and that is report suggests n.s.a. engaged in financial manipulation changing money in bank accounts the new white house intelligence taskforce issued some recommendations on how to reform the n.s.a. and recommendation number thirty one max read governments should not use their offensive cyber capabilities to change the amounts held in financial accounts or otherwise manipulate the financial system so many are asking what exactly did they see that the n.s.a. has been doing and that they would recommend that. this course be taken well it's part of the balun psychology we saw in cyprus where the stat

flops of information that the n.s.a. hold it's impossible to analyze it except the matter of data that you can actually see the movements of people in the case of the internet traffic if you identify the sender and the recipient then automatically some of these huge crate computers can identify a link and this is it the linkage but what people what we call you on the line actually good time to mention of course it's also revelations also come out that the n.s.a. is harvesting data from hundreds of millions of cell phones of ordinary people around the world we just talked about the massive amount of information there how do they start to filter it down or what are the again what in the n.s.a.'s case what are they trying to glean from that massive amount of information that's coming in. well you're absolutely right the. the volume of information is extraordinary and remember it has to be stored and they have storage facilities a base outside of the united states and hear what they will do they will discover let's say that

also, n.s.a. through 702 coverage of an al-qaeda affiliated terrorist found that headley was working on a plot to bomb a danish newspaper office that had published the cartoon depictions of the prophet muhammad. headley later confessed to personally conducting surveillance of the danish newspaper office. he and his coconspirators were convicted of this plot. lastly, the f.b.i. opened an investigation shortly after 9/11. we did not have enough information nor did we find links to terrorism so we shortly thereafter closed the investigation. however, the n.s.a. using the business record fisa tipped us off that this individual had indirect contacts with a known terrorist overseas. we were able to reopen this investigation, identify additional individuals through the legal process and were able to disrupt this terrorist activity. >> now in order -- the way it works, is the -- there is an application that is made by the f.b.i. under the statute to the fisa court, we call it the fisc. they ask for and re

no sir two days later on june ninth a former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden comes forward as the source of the recent n.s.a. stories he's left the united states and is in hong kong he says he's a whistleblower and he's handed over his trove of evidence to journalists and the public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong snowden is later forced to hide out in russia as over the next six months the world's newspapers begin publishing the n.s.a.'s angy c.-h. cues most closely guarded secrets dragnet surveillance on entire foreign populations targeted surveillance on diplomats and world leaders including key allies the black budget of the u.s. intelligence agencies the deliberate tapping of undersea fiber optic cables a commitment to breaking in corruption standards we also learned that the n.s.a. has secretly hacked into google and yahoo is data links barton gellman calls this the most explosive story and it's a was breaking into the data links the private cleone the links between for example to google da

and n.s.a. counter terror tactics tactics that appeared just as intrusive as they are absurd and considering previous n.s.a. documents reveal an agency struggling to deal with the problem of ingesting too much data and maybe filling repositories with the latest hoard gold kalak over the live images of what people are doing in front of their computers isn't the way to go in washington sam sachs r.t. so what exactly does the government have to gain from journeying through the southern barrens with the blood hunt for the sky chaser tribe for the answer so that i was joined earlier by peter ludlow professor of philosophy at northwestern university take a look. i don't think so and that's the danger of this thing is that you know i know a lot of people that role play as different you know military groups and you know some people roleplay as elbows and so hopefully as orcs and some of them are in their role playing as terrorists and they're you know attacking the mafia group and so forth so if they're

all those jokesters at the n.s.a. just playing around with the financial system for fun and finance a game i thought the reason they were involved in all that invasive technologies tuesday was to keep us safe well remember they've denied that they were involved in corporate espionage but in this latest report investigating n.s.a. activities and what should be done about it something has emerged in one of the recommendations and that is report suggests and are saying gauge and financial manipulation changing money in bank accounts the new white house intelligence taskforce issued some recommendations on how to reform the n.s.a. and recommendation number thirty one max read governments should not use their offensive cyber capabilities to change the amounts held in financial accounts or otherwise manipulate the financial system so many are asking what exactly did they see that the n.s.a. has been doing and that they would recommend that this course be taken well it's part of the balun psychology we saw in cyprus where th

the n.s.a. which has been rocked by that certified nut-lid edward snowden. and we don't even know how bad it is because officials have no idea how much information he has collected. that's right. the extent of edward snowden's leaks are as fuzzy and as ill-defined as his mustache. (laughter) so in a desperate bid to find out how much intel snowden took, n.s.a. officials recently floated the idea of offering edward snowden amnesty. i'd take the deal, ed. just come back with all the intel and all is forgiven. i tell you what, to make you feel safe we'll meet you in a special amnesty zone. (laughter) folks, the n.s.a. is just doing their job! and they're just doing it in more places than you ever imagined. >> the n.s.a. activity didn't stop with e-mails or cell phones of foreign leaders according the guardian and the "new york times" which say the agency also spied on video games like world of war craft and second life. >> stephen: that's right, the n.s.a. is spying on second life-- a game for peop

over those jokesters at the n.s.a. just playing around with the financial system for fun and finance a game i thought the reason they were involved in all that invasive technologies to see was to keep us safe well remember they've denied that they were involved in corporate espionage but in this latest report investigating n.s.a. activities and what should be done about it something has emerged in one of the recommendations and that is reports suggest and are saying gauge and financial manipulation changing money in bank accounts the new white house intelligence taskforce issued some recommendations on how to reform the n.s.a. and recommendation number thirty one max read governments should not use their offensive cyber capabilities to change the amounts held in financial accounts or otherwise manipulate the financial system so many are asking what exactly did they see that the n.s.a. has been doing and that they would recommend that this course be taken well it's part of the balun psychology you saw in cyprus where th

no sir two days later on june ninth if former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden comes forward as the source of the recent n.s.a. stories he's left the united states and is in hong kong he says he's a whistleblower and he's handed over his trove of evidence to journalists and the public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong snowden is later forced to hide out in russia as over the next six months the world's newspapers begin publishing the n.s.a.'s angy c.-h. cues most closely guarded secrets dragnet surveillance on entire foreign populations targeted surveillance on diplomats and world leaders including key allies the black budget of the u.s. intelligence agencies the deliberate tapping of undersea fiber optic cables a commitment to breaking in corruption standards we also learned that the n.s.a. has secretly hacked into google and yahoo is data links barton gellman calls this the most explosive story and it's a was breaking into the data links the private owned the links between for example to google dat

to talk about what the n.s.a. leadership thinks they do as an agency and let's go through some of the specific

documents obtained by edward snowden revealed what he believes to be the n.s.a. is all to make goal and also made it clear that the as his activities go far beyond counterterrorism the n.s.a. documents they are here is teaching us with all sorts of references to the fact of the goal of the n.s.a. is captured by the phrase call left at all. in the united states one of those has top defenders senator dianne feinstein the chairwoman of the senate intelligence committee made some surprising comments about the n.s.a.'s bulk phone metadata collection program suggesting she may be open to reforming it after all. this program in conjunction with other programs helps keep this nation safe i'm not saying it's indispensable but i'm saying that

last friday a federal new york judge ruled that the n.s.a. phone data collection program is legal this was just days after a judge in washington state announced it's unconstitutional the case is expected to be heard by the supreme court also this weekend former n.s.a. and cia chief michael hayden had harsh words for the former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden who sparked the debate eight months ago. well in the past two weeks in open letters to german and the brazilian government he has offered to reveal more american secrets to those governments in return for something and in return for asylum i think there's an english word that describes something american secrets to another government and i do think it's treason. in washington d.c. area and boring party and it won't be long. before drones are hovering over u.s. skies we're now learning that six different states will develop test sites for drones this all according to an announcement by the federal aviation administration alaska nevada north dakota new york for ginia and texas will each ho