promised the most transparent administration ever wanted to go over the white house but the scandals of the past month seem to say otherwise and now there's news that the n.s.a. the national security administration is secretly collecting americans phone records and perhaps much much more so what happened to transparency in washington also yesterday president obama chose susan rice to be his new national security adviser in a move this sure to ruffle republican feathers but does the president still care about working with republicans or has he does.

promised the most transparent administration ever when he took over the white house but the scandals of the past month seem to say otherwise and now there's news that the n.s.a. the national security administration is secretly collecting americans phone records and perhaps much much more so what happened to transparency in washington also yesterday president obama chose susan rice to be his new national security adviser in a move this sure to ruffle republican fathers but does the president still care about working with the republicans or.

promised the most transparent administration ever when he took over the white house but the scandals of the past month seem to say otherwise and now there's news that the n.s.a. the national security administration is secretly collecting americans phone records and perhaps much much more so what happened to transparency in washington also yesterday president obama chose susan rice to be his new national security adviser in a move this sure to ruffle republican feathers but does the president still care about working with republicans or has he decided to move on with or without their help and tea partiers were on capitol hill earlier this week to testify before congress about the i.r.s. is targeting in quotes of conservative groups but why are tea party groups seeking help from the very same government that they say is responsible for all of our nation's problems. you need to know this nineteen eighty-four has finally arrived according to a report published in the guardian last night the national security agency is secretly collecting the phone records of millions of arisan users the agency received authorization to track phone metadata over a three month period from a special cour

the n.s.a.'s snooping capabilities it reignited the debate about balancing national security and civil liberties president obama once promised the most transparent administration ever so there's no time we said goodbye to the policies of the bush years more on that in just a moment and many women denied being feminists at the same time they support many of the most fundamental principles of feminism when and why did the name for a social movement become a dirty word at least on the right i'll ask gloria steinem is a nice conversation with great minds.

the n.s.a.'s snooping capabilities it reignited the debate about balancing national security and civil liberties president obama once promised the most transparent administration ever so there's no time we said goodbye to the policies of the bush years more on that in just a moment and many women to die being feminists at the same time they support many of the most fundamental principles of feminism when and why did the name for a social movement become a dirty word at least on the right i'll ask gloria steinem is a nice conversation with great minds.

the n.s.a.'s snooping capabilities it reignited the debate about balancing national security and civil liberties president obama once promised the most transparent administration ever so there's no time we said goodbye to the policies of the bush years more on that in just a moment and many women denied being feminists at the same time they support many of the most fundamental principles of feminism when and why did the name for a social movement become a dirty word at least on the right i'll ask gloria steinem and it's conversation with great minds. you need to know this the surveillance state is even bigger and scarier than we thought on wednesday night the guardian's glenn greenwald revealed that the national security agency is secretly collecting the phone records of millions of arisan users to see received authorization to track phone metadata over a three month period for a special court order issued didn't april we also now know that the guardian uncovered just the tip of the iceberg of an ongoing phone and internet records collection program that likely includes almost all major u.s. telecommunications companies earlier today president obama justified

national security. and you wonder at what point the administration, the n.s.a., the intelligence committees, congress more broadly will say actually these were emergency powers, they were passed after 9/11 and the emergency is over. that debate has still yet to occur. >> spencer makes a great point and that is that as al qaeda has been decimated and they cut the head off the snake as john brennan has described it, the head of the c.i.a., and most of the threats now are from self-radicalized individuals like we saw in boston who are u.s. citizens. so what does that mean about using that intelligence if most of -- if many of the new terrorists are homegrown terrorists and u.s. citizens? >> what it means is that if the emergency is over, try and tell that to the legless woman whose picture we know so well from the boston marathon. tell they are emergency is over when "inspire" magazine is being followed by thousands of people around the world, many of whom are trying to act on that. >> it's taken another turn, exactly. >> rose: phil, last word. >> this debate is not about terrorism, it's about cartels, human

national surveillance. >>gretchen: and security. >>steve: absolutely. no doubt the government is trying to do everything they can to keep us secure, but are they actually exceeding the law. who gave the n.s.a. and the administration to go this far over the line? according to james sensenbrenner, who is one of the guys who wrote the patriot act, he says that the n.s.a. has gone way past it. in fact, in particular, section 215 was drafted specifically to prevent data mining on the scale that we're seeing. and yet, that is what they're using the n.s.a. as for rationalization to listen to everything. >>brian: they say it's amazing. the technology has pushed this program forward. five years ago we couldn't have dreamed of having the capacity to store anything let alone find things. the more data we give in, the better we get out. people say why are you using all this stuff? yet the people that work with the data say i can't believe how valuable this is. the question is, you look at general alexander, for me, i feel great. there is a guy in charge, will do anything to keep us safe. when you watch politicians being unable to find the truth or saying i didn't know or this program is beyond the stoep, that's when you say