mehta data mining program they've pushed back and said that they aren't simply opening up the doors for the government so is there a metaphor that you could use that describes how these companies are working with the government or do we even know. unfortunately it looks like we lost the money for just a second or maybe some of his audio but let's talk a little bit more in detail about what we found out now one thing that was very interesting that came out from all of this is the fact that it was a man named edward snowden huge leaked it he was in and he didn't graduate from high school and he actually leaked all of this data now representative peter king hit the airwaves yesterday saying that not only should edward snowden be the one that's prosecuted but someone else who should be prosecuted that is the reporters and the journalists that leaks that information that's something that we reported about yesterday so and lawmakers are speaking out about this they're also learning a little bit more about what this data actually entails many lawmakers say that some of it is necessary other on

block the budget plan after a secret vote and what's seen as a revolt against leaders economist james mehta way weighs in. constitutionally the well within their rights to reject the thing and send it back and have another go at writing this no whether they actually do that will probably depend on the fine print in the budgets are already raised to be politic to said he would be able to support the steel and the heads of one of the major groups in the parliament or the socialist group said there are likely to be supported there's going to be a rocky ride i think this budget over the next few months cameron's right to talk about this being like a reduction in a credit card limits and of course you can have your credit card limit reduced and still spend on spending more money now that's almost certainly what's going to happen to britain over the next few years the amounts that britain is expected to pay into the main e.u. fund will increase as a result of increased payments to a new member countries so he's going to pretend that this will show how britain can still be a force in europe how we

watched by the united states with around five hundred million data intercepts each month these include mehta data on emails telephone calls s.m.s. text instant messages meanwhile in china of course the country that allowed snowden to slip through the net when he fled hong kong leaks revealed that every chinese computer that is hacked thirty three percent of these attacks originate from in america. can i pay addressed and it's not just civilians being monitored hospitals and universities are also being targeted when you look at the scale and the scope of america's global surveillance program and the fact that allied governments have also been bugged in recent years it makes it increasingly difficult for washington to get continue using national security as a justification for simply appears to be mass espionage well in germany the words united stars of america appeared on the walls of the u.s. embassy on sunday comparing washington's spying tactics to east germany's infamous intelligence service the stop was carried out by activist group anonymous just a week after a similar action by the onl

s mehta data program most likely violated the fourth amendment as part of that ruling a judge richard leon ordered the government to stop collecting data on two plaintiffs who brought the case against the u.s. government will have to wait and see if the supreme court does take up the issue of the n.s.a. very controversial metadata program us president barack obama was asked to identify any specific instance in which analysis of the n.s.a.'s bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent attack the u.s. president could not identify one instance or at least he did not give one example to the journalists that were asking him now u.s. officials have for many years asked americans to sacrifice some of their privacy in the name of security but so far no top u.s. official can mention any danger imminent danger that's been thwarted through the collection of everyone's personal information. journalist glenn greenwald meanwhile has been channeling revelations from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden lashed out of the mainstream media for turning a blind eye to the government's violations

of the national security agency and made it clear that the indiscriminate collection of everyone's mehta data will continue obama's so-called reforms did not address the prism program which allows the n.s.a. to monitor everyone's online at city including e-mails chats web searches and video calls us president also didn't address the n.s.a.'s counter encryption activities or any geo location information that the agency may have or may be collecting so what's changing here's what's changing obama doesn't want the government to control the metal data storage anymore proposing that phone logs belonging to all americans be moved into the hands of a third party the u.s. president says that his attorney general eric holder and other intelligence officials will cross to a war on who should hold the metadata announcing various options in late march so this essentially means that the same u.s. officials who spearheaded and authorized the expansion of america's surveillance practices are now in charge with curbing their own authority also effective immediately obama says that the n.s.a. will now ha

more as every week goes by about what they're collecting in terms of text messages and e-mails and mehta data and it's it's voluminous and the president is is not can admit in that anything has been done wrong is not proposing to stop doing it is not suggesting we restore the fourth amendment to the constitution he's suggesting that this will continue and it will be reformed perhaps in part someday but he claims it's been a great step forward i don't see it. police in texas left red faced after two officers were a little too quick on the draw after one houston resident was after giving a homeless man some change why'd the cops put him in cops find out on our t. dot com plus. in a bid to get the south american drug cartels the honduran air force given the green light to shoot down planes that could be carrying narcotics would have the desired effect or could innocent lives be put in jeopardy find out on our website. i think you. should have you with us here on t.v. today i'm recession. fighters on both sides of syria's civil war are turning to drugs both as a source of profit and for stay

s mehta data program most likely violated the fourth amendment as part of that ruling a judge richard leon ordered the government to stop collecting data on two plaintiffs who brought the case against the u.s. government now u.s. officials have for many years asked americans to sacrifice some of their privacy in the name of security but so far no top u.s. official can mention any danger imminent danger that's been thwarted through the collection of everyone's personal information now the secret status of the documents which exposed vienna's surveillance played a key role in this ruling daniel mcadams is an executive director of the wrong ball institute for peace and prosperity he told r t why he thinks the wording of the verdict could be a cause for major concern. this ruling by judge of holy it on friday said that the a.c.l.u. doesn't have the right to challenge this collection of metadata because that was it was gotten illegally because of the revelations by snowden because congress meant for section two fifteen of the patriot act to be secret orders under that sentient to be secret

really stop the this massive collection of mehta data the two from information who sent what to whom and when. in short it does not. it does not invoke the probable cause standard you know our fourth amendment to the constitution says there shall be no search and seizure of personal property or information without the enforcement or surveillance agency going before an independent judge proving that they know what they're doing proving that they're not on a wild goose chase or operating on an empty hunch and. with very specific accounting of who they are looking for and what they are looking for now meanwhile we also have this white house appointed panel they put out a long list of forty six recommendations designed to increase transparency the very day that that review was released i sat down with one of its authors cass sunstein and he claims that he had complete access to conduct the report and i asked him if he found anything surprising during his investigation i want to take a look at his response and then we'll get yours i'll be interested we didn't discover any shocking practic

watched by the united states with around five hundred million data intercepts each month these include mehta data on emails telephone calls s.m.s. text instant messages meanwhile in china of course the country that allowed snowden to slip through the net when he fled hong kong leaks revealed that every chinese computer that is hacked thirty three percent of these attacks originate from in america. can i pay addressed and it's not just civilians being monitored hospitals and universities are also being targeted when you look at the scale in the scope of america's global surveillance program and the fact that allied governments have also been bugged in recent years it makes it increasingly difficult for washington to get continue using national security as a justification for simply appears to be mass espionage are still to come here when i see they gave it away now they want it back residents and the london bar fight legal battles with the off stories who are trying to take back their social housing because they desperately need the money that's coming up very shortly here on the program. but

collecting darius and customer mehta data is this just small potatoes compared to this prism program. well of margaret you know none of this is really small potatoes because yes we did initially hear about verizon collecting all of this excessive information and what of those certainly the prism program is extremely extensive because it includes not just you know monitoring things that we all again suspected are taking place pipes out of people throughout the world really that use these websites and in terms of the horizon and the telecommunications scandal in general and the prison scandal separately this is all just huge huge numbers including enormous amounts of people less so let's hope this is not just the beginning bytes it feels like much more information may be released on these privacy concerns in the time to come very one final question to you colonel we have to we have to leave it there could we see news gathering itself become criminalized if this kind of behavior keeps coming out of this administration. hopefully not but it's hard to say because i mean who would have expe

and then reports that information back to the web site now the researchers say they only sent back mehta data that shows whether a user had self censored not what that user had typed but that doesn't mean that facebook can't read what you don't post and fact the study proves that the company certainly has the technological ability to read that information and it's a notion that's not sitting well with some facebook users and anon line petition twenty eight thousand people so far have called on the social network to quote stop sucking our unposted bonce in response to the petition a company spokesperson denied the allegation telling mashable that facebook does not collect or track any time and that people have chosen not to post but that's not an easy sell coming from the same company that's under fire for another privacy complaint you see just before the new year facebook was slapped with a class action privacy lawsuit a lawsuit claims that the social network is scanning users private messages an order to profit from their data in other words if you send a private message that includes a

police officer saying you don't have to follow the constitution officer richard rest scene of hell mehta new jersey resigned today after a video was posted online telling a local resident he doesn't have to follow the constitution because president obama doesn't well have met a residency bronco was called in by local police for taking photos outside the precinct and insists to the police a way he had to say he had the constitutional right to record in a public place. or what you want. for a war or follow those orders by person or a very very very. low this is very different because only short of your neighbors of the border are real. well the police director called the comments embarrassing and accepted the officers resignation that does it for now for more of the stories we covered go to youtube dot com forward slash r.t. america and check out our web site r.t. dot com forward slash usa can also follow me on twitter and see friends stay tuned to bust up next. this was in the washington well as the miss. is being suggested in the list of numbers among the many candidates the prophecy of

first public comments about the leaks this is what obama had to say by sifting through this so-called mehta data they may identify potential leads with respect to folks who might engage in terrorist. this does not apply to u.s. citizens and it does not apply to people living in the united states the president's defense of these programs even as they've come under fire in the court system and within the white house's own review panel have alienated privacy and civil liberties advocates so let's move on to the syrian disaster for the past two years the crisis in syria has worsened but most americans could agree on one thing that a u.s. led war in syria would not be the answer and fact according to a reuters it's this poll from august of two thousand and thirteen only nine percent of respondents were in favor of intervening militarily in the country but despite the overwhelming public opinion president obama remains steadfast in his september speech to americans that it's harder to strike be the next course of action ultimately a diplomatic solution was announced however some analysts have sai

surveillance program that collected phone call mehta data of a sweeping number of people and spied on searches e-mails and file transfers through its present program it's not only the citizens of the united states it's billions and billions of people who are having all their data vacuumed up by the national security administration and whatever other agencies and programs have not been revealed yet snowden is currently hiding in hong kong hoping to get asylum in iceland and while the spying revelation he exposed was shocking some still go about business as usual you know woodward snowden now still enough people believe what snowden did should have been done by the media a long time ago he didn't reveal anything. as a spy or a prankster or anything if he's he's really press he's really newspaper a growing number of americans i am bradley manning i am bradley americans are also demanding fair treatment of twenty five year old army private bradley manning currently on trial for leaking classified documents to wiki leaks now facing up to life behind bars the obama administration has prosec

each and every day that's mehta data that meditate over time allows your profile an individual in terms of location who they speak with with it's called the duration and a whole host of other information related to that and they can tie that into additional information so meditate in itself it can be extraordinarily intrusive in terms of keeping track of the patterns of your digital life and just the way you go about your business and what about the idea of not collecting identities just phone numbers do you believe that that's another false statement because this the phone companies historically have published white pages the white pages are listed by name not by phone number it stretches the bounds of incredulity to assert that they're only getting the metadata that includes apparently everything except the name of the subscriber it's fundamental to the system and the name itself is a primary key for metadata alone so why. they keep making this point that they only get the phone numbers when the fact is that it's very easy for them to go back and get the names because they're being ex

the political status of your guys in there and i have a question on coming from twitter from mark mehta rod your cost like your agency is a key player in global nuclear diplomacy and it has been for decades in fact but do you think that if the sometimes being dragged into political partly the global carbon i don't think so we are going to go on ideation but we are fully aware that we are. in a very political environment anything related to nuclear is political that is why we should be neutral and technical but how do you do that how do you manage to prevent becoming a political tool where the country uses a nuclear power or not is a political issue in many countries i do not think that. the are you does not say that countries should or should not use nuclear power i leave it completely to the decision of the country but if they decide to use nuclear power as a part of the energy mix will help them to use it safely securely and sustainably but also had questions about israel's assume stockpile of nuclear weapons some people say that israel is trying to do deliberately ambiguous in the is

stay strong and hang in there alternately as secretary mehta said the solution to ghana stand is going to be negotiated do you get. you get it you got to get the other countries in the region russia china iran and even pakistan you know although the afghan taliban is a creature of to pakistan so the question is what role will they have a commie a commie network is still coming in from pakistan and hitting the us targets they've always done that or we have to leave it there unfortunately great insight especially with the leadership roles that we possibly need to look at they have so much that's former pentagon official michael mullen. today the senate committee on homeland security and governmental affairs next to this chaos ongoing efforts to counter threats to stability in the united states and quoted among the topics discussed was the threat posed by domestic and international terrorist organizations and once perpetrated by white supremacists and neo nazis at the charlottesville rally was tragic vile and evil it stunned many of us who thought the chance of blood and soil belonged in