it is impossible to know if the people at the top of the national security agency ever expected their techniques to be revealed to the rest of us. or if they could have expected what the world would be. >> with millions of documents under his arm. we now know just how far one agency has reached into the pockets and purses of millions of americans in the name of keeping americans safe. you remembering more oversight, and restrictions on the country's digital surveillance tactics. over the next several weeks we will be reviewing the report and the four recommendations as we continue to past forward which might require further study, in which we will choose not to pursue. >> the report released wednesday comes from a panel of five legal and intelligence experts. and make more transparent the national security agency and the rules under which the agency works. there were 46 including ending the collection. about syringes without senior policy review. ending the storage of bulk telephone calls so far meta data by the government, creation of a public interest advocate, to represent privacy

and make more transparent the national security agency and the rules under which the agency works.here were 46 including ending the collection. about syringes without senior policy review. ending the storage of bulk telephone calls so far meta data by the government, creation of a public interest advocate, to represent privacy and civil liberties interests. j the panel also stressed that because the intelligence community can do something, that doesn't mean it should. "the right to privacy is essential, the rise of modern technologies makes it all the more important the democratic nations respect people's fundamental rights to privacy, which is a defining part of individual security and personal liberty. vermont center, the chairman praised the panel's proposals. >> the message is very clear. nsa you have gone too far. the bulk collection of americans data by the u.s. government has to end. review group came to the same conclusion that i had -- >> the controversial intelligence gathering methods employed by the nsa were revealed by former contractor edward snowden who continues to

boni all summer where the head of the national security agency and our director of national intelligence have testified before the congress that it has been a valuable tool in helping link international terrorists to those who may be in the united states and the subject of what's in the review group report which is what we called the national security agency's eavesdropping program and its phone records program was one of those tools that i think helped us in at least to several occasions for war a terrorist attack on new on the new york city subway system to name just one i think well it's interesting that you say that because they died who ruled that particular program was unconstitutional sat in his legal opinion that he hasn't been presented with a single example of the full metal program revealing something valuable for preventing a terrorist attack and i wonder if this resistance to. you know scrapping these phone program reflects the intelligence community effort to defend what it sees as not perhaps pretty but necessary methods of operation or rather just a show of institutional

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the national security agency is one of those agencies. because of that those officers who work there are patriots we're going to continue to need them to do the work they do, because the threat continues to exist and quite frankly it's possible the threat could grow again, that's one very important piece of context that americans need to understand. the other is that there is this view out there that somehow the national security agency was out there on its own doing all of these things. not the case. it was doing exactly what its government asked it to do. it was operating under strict rules, provided by executive branch and judicial branch and it was overseen extensively by the intelligence committees on congress. there was no abuse here. they were doing exactly what they were told to do. i think that's important context that people should know. >> schieffer: well, you say there was no abuse because they were doing what they were told to do. but are there instances, mr. morell, where they have invaded america's privacy or is it that the

joining us now is general michael hayden former head of the national security agency and cia is now a principle of the chertoff group here in washington. before we get to nsa and surveillance a lot of ground to cover there there is story in the "new york times" this morning talks about month long investigation conducted in to the benghazi attack. there's no clear linkage is central command al qaeda that there was a much messier situation on the ground than originally disclosed by administration or thought by most observers. your reaction. >> i think that has -- these kind of events are not more nuanced than we'd like them to be looking back at them in retrospect. when the attack happened on this network a few days afterwards i was asked who did it. and i said, well, you know, al qaeda divided in three layers, formerly affiliated. at the time i said this was probably high end like-minded or low end affiliated. i think the time bears that out. >> you mean locals who have anti-american sentiment, al qaeda sort of passions in their vein? >> and a -- consistent with the al qaeda. >> these

the national security agency is going to far to monitor the data of american citizens. it doesn't protect those are are not citizens under the law in the u.s. >> two men released from guantanamo bay without charge after 11 years. >> on the road but not for much longer. volkswagen puts the brakes on its iconic van. it >> good to have you with us. these are the top stories on al jazeera. heavy gun fire continued in juba after government forces stopped and attempted coup. many people are said to have fled their homes and are sheltering in compounds. thousands of north koreans marked the second anniversary of the death of kim jong-il. days ago new leader kim jong un or the execution of his uncle. >> a federal judge says a national security agency surveillance program appears to violate the constitutional ban on unreasonable searches. >> german chancellor angela merkel will be sworn in for a third term on tuesday. she was re-elected in september, but it has taken her a month to put together a cabinet with her new social democrat coalition partners. >> barnaby phillips is joi

kirk wiebe worked at the national security agency for more than 32 years. received the nsa second highest award, the meritorious civilian service award. also with us is ben wizner, .dward snowden's legal advisor let's begin with you. your response to the panel's recommendation? >> my first thought yesterday was, i wonder if even "time magazine" realizes they should've chosen edward snowden as the person of the year? what a week this has been to vindicate the act of conscious he engaged in. first a conservative federal judge citing the nsa sweeping intelligence program violates the constitution, then what we expected to be a whitewash executive branch report, coming back with these incredible recommendations for sweeping overhaul -- none of this would have happened but for what edward snowden did. in the report itself, and some of the recommendations, what is your initial reaction? >> i will be candid. people in the several liberties committed he were sharpening our knives. we were waiting for this to be a cover-up cosmetic reform. in fact, i saw an e-mail t

we turn now to the latest about the national security agency.n monday, a federal judge ruled the nsa's full collection of americans phone records "almost certainly" violates the fourth amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches. u.s. district judge richard leon described the nsa's activities as "almost orwellian." he wrote -- judge leon was appointed to the bench by republican president george w. bush in 2002. leon suspend enforcement of his injunction against the program pending an expected appeal by the government. the suit was brought by conservative attorney larry klayman, the founder of judicial watch them based on information leaked by former nsa contractor edward snowden. in a statement monday, snowden said -- snowden went on to say -- joining us in washington, d.c. is sascha meinrath, director of the new america foundation's open technology institute. he served as an expert witness who advise the review group on intelligence and two indications which was tasked by president obama to review the nsa activities. first, respond to

>>> new details about how the national security agency gathers nearly 5 billion cell phone records around the world every day. those records are put into a huge database that contract the movements of individuals, map their relationships, how they're connected work they're calling were creates a web of information. >> bringing in our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr, on this story because, barbara, you hear about all of this, the cell phone locations and who they're trying to trace, is it

>> former national security agency contractor edward snowden has leaked details of several programs. some have questioned whether those programs are legal. mike viqueria joins us from the white plaintiffs who brought this case against the national security agency. one big caveat here tony. he has stayed that injunction. he wants to allow the government time to appeal this ruling. he says does leon, an interesting phrase. the deposit don't cite a single instance in which nsa bulk data collection actually stopped an imminent attack. this case was brought, you may have remembered this claim, he was a thorn in the side back then of all the sprayers various scandals. does not apply to since the onst of the available to the intelligence community tony. >> the white house was asked about the possibility of granting working at the national security agency, keith alexander who runs the national security agency, both were interviewed on 60 minutes. and mr. legett was asked, should mr. snowden be given amnesty to limit the harm to the administration, staunch advocates of bringing snowden to just

the details come from edward snowden, who leaked a trove of material from the national security agency last summer. intelligence officials maintain

obtained a copy of these talking points that the national security agency apparently sent out to employees ahead of the thanksgiving holiday with the intent that these employees could talk about the talking points if the n.s.a. came up during any dinner gatherings so they were tasked with being ambassadors of the n.s.a. to talk about what the n.s.a. leadership thinks they do as an agency and let's go through some of the specific

well as the controversy over whether the national security agency has gone too far and invaded privacy in its efforts to protect us from terrorist attacks, a panel of experts appointed by the president to study the nsa's programs made 46

a federal judge rips the national security agency phone surveillance program calling the nsa's collection of millions of phone records unconstitutional and almost orwellian. >>> unhealthy expense. new research shows multi vitamins might be a drain on your wallet and your well-being. >> there's no evidence of benefit. and there is really evidence of harm. our recommendation is don't waste your money. >>> big foot. baltimore ravens kicker justin tucker boots his team back into playoff contentions with some clutch kicks. >> from 61, unbelievable! ♪ >>> and beyonce's breaking records. the pop star's surprise album tears up the charts and it could be a game-changer for the music tears up the charts and it could be a game-changer for the music industry. captioning funded by cbs >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for tuesday, december 17th, 2013. good morning, good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. well, a federal judge has ruled that the national security agency's bulk collection of phone records of millions of americans is unconstitutional, it's a blistering attack on the program. the judg

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lawmakers discussed the intelligence agency's role in the recent north korea perch up to one tells us. this special prominence beacon eighty two with twenty ten national intelligence agency held hearings on monday. a group of experts was invited to share their debuts on how to make even see it more politically neutral and think that it's a breeze no mention of information gathering the experts have a very chill and opposing perspectives about the direction and go but with reports all taxpayers in baghdad. i don't buildings candidate parties that reducing agents suspected an investigator who punishes domestically or death but negative impact on security considering your korea still stands. there are spies to south korea and the national intelligence agency often the rest of it experts recommend it but the main opposition democratic party said dna and showed strength and information gathering activities and north korea and other countries and that its investigative rates and home give them headaches the sharing it doesn't interfere in domestic political acts. the two parties also chemo with differing opinions about the same development in the curia and

america's national security agency has apparently been leading an active life in a fantasy world it's been sending its highest level agents into the hordes of all elves and dwarves in online games such as world of warcraft. these revelations center around two games that's world of warcraft and second life these are basically alternative online universes where users can create avatars they can be no elves or trolls the fear that g c h q and the n.s.a. had was that this type of online game could be used to discard is shady activity on the part of terrorist networks or criminal groups which is why they have been spying on the people playing these games which is basically involves them assuming fantasy identities and jumping in and getting stuck in we know that there are a lot of play is online playing these games around forty eight million according to the estimate by x. box live that in fact it seems to have been quite a big operation the cia the f.b.i. and pentagon even had to reportedly create a special d confliction group in order to stop all the spies from spying on each other or ef

records of millions of americans, were exposed earlier this year by edward snowden, the national security agency leaker and now fugitive from justice who was granted asylum in russia. major garrett is at the white house tonight. major, what are the details? >> reporter: scott, the panel said the national security agency should stop collecting and storing so much data on individual americans. it suggested the government's willingness to use every new type of surveillance technology has put civil liberties at risk. the panel urged president obama to place the right to privacy on equal footing with surveillance and counterterrorism investigations. the rise of modern technologies makes it all the more important that democratic nations respect people's fundamental right to privacy, the panel wrote. adding "excessive surveillance and unjustified secrecy can threaten civil liberties, public trust and the core processes of democratic self-government." that echoes revelations by national security agency leaker edward snowden, whose allegedly criminal disclosures of government surveillance activities led

britain spy agencies working with the nsa listened in on conversations of top european union officials as well as those of united nations' directors including that of unself computer club members called that an outrage, so they're suing in the european court of human rights. >> the chief of the agencies should be asked about their spying capabilities, and maybe so we can have that spying could end. just because the public knows about it does not mean it will be changed really. >> reporter: many now feel that there is more reason than ever to do so. al jazeera, hamburg. >> today denver began issuing recreational marijuana business permits. they're able to grow or sell the drug for explicitly non-medical reasons. licenses dispensaries can begin selling it on january 1st. >>> well, motorcycles are cheap in venezuela, and they make it easy to get around. but they're also used in many of the crimes committed in the country. alessandro has the story from caracas. >> driving between traffic lan lanes, blowing red lights and ambushing drivers, motorcycles have invaded caracas, becom beca major safety concern. >> i saw two guys

we speak to the former head of the national security agency. the great train robber dies at the age of 86. we look back at his famous heist and his years on the run. welcome to our viewers on public television here in america and also around the globe. the white house released a report from a presidenti

dell. >> libby thank you very much. >>> there are new reports concerning the national security agencythere are new documents that have been leaked by edward snowden revealing that the nsa kept tabs on scene your members of the european union, directors at the united nation, african heads of state and their families and tracked israeli officials as well. >>> president obama urging calm in south sudan. two un trips were killed when their base came under attack on thursday. the un also saying that 20 civilians were killed. >> reporter: officials checking passports, those here who want to leave south sudan must be on the evacuation list. foreigners and some locals are being flown out of the country. u.s. soldiers are also in the capitol making sure it is safe for planes to take off and land. they have been monitoring the situation together with un troops. but many people can't leave. they find safety in un compounds. during the day they go out to find food, but make sure they return sunset. they say they don't feel safe sleeping at home at night. the president's supporters are mainly dink

we speak to the former head of the national security agency. and the great train robber dies at the age of 86. we look back at his famous heist and his years on the run. welcome to our viewers on public television here in america and also around the globe. the white house released a report from a presidential task force calling for more than 40 proposed reforms to the national security agency surveillance programs. keep collecting massive amounts of phone data but it should be stored by a third-party. president obama will address the report in january. i spoke to the former nsa director a short time ago. 46 points of recommendations that the board has come forward with. let's start with a collection of phone call data from americans. >> the 215 program from the patriot act. those are all the phone records to, from, when, how long. all calls made to and from the united states. that this data not be held by the government, but by a third party. either the phone companies or a to be determined third-party. and not without the specific permission o

at a brought together the intelligence from the national security agency, the national ,eospatial intelligencegency -- dea sometimes, in the cia all the sort of intelligence that is possible to bring together from the u.s. side and then that would be any sort of performancefrom that colombians had -- informants that colombians have. by that time the clemens were quite good at infiltrating camps. they were less good at technical types of you stopping. it was a combination really of the human -- so human intelligence, the source froming, and debriefings deserters who had been in the farc. this actually is a very important part of the intelligence gathering that is done in colombia, mainly by the government there. the cia did help them to do more thorough investigations or debriefings from interrogations, agreed tombers who take the offer by the colombian government and dessert the farc, and they would be given eventually government payments and allowed to integrate back into society. and these people were very important to understand or for the government to understand how the farc was organized

we speak to the former head of the national security agency. and the great train robber dies at the age of 86. we look back at his famous heist and his years on the run. welcome to our viewers on public television here in america and also around the globe. the white house released a report from a presidential task force calling for more than 40 proposed reforms to the national security agency surveillance programs. keep collecting massive amounts of phone data but it should be stored by a third-party. president obama will address the report in january. i spoke to the former nsa director a short time ago. 46 points of recommendations that the board has come forward with. let's start with a collection of phone call data from americans. >> the 215 program from the patriot act. those are all the phone records to, from, when, how long. all calls made to and from the united states. that this data not be held by the government, but by a third party. either the phone companies or a to be determined third-party. and not without the specific permission o

district court for the district of columbia and a ruling against the national security agency. the data snooping is probably illegal. he doubts the claims that the surveillance is necessary to prevent terrorism. he says that the government does not fight a single case in which the analysis of the metadata collection actually stopped an imminent terrorist attack. he said the nsa's collection of metadata was arbitrary and indiscriminate. he said the technology was almost orwellian. a blow to the nsa and to president obama -- good news for edward snowden. immediately issued a statement, saying he acted on his belief that the nsa's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge. the judge's decision is an initial ruling. it is likely to go to appeal and all the way to the supreme court. the u.s. government has restated its position that nsa surveillance is constitutional and that intelligence gathering is underway -- review is underway. >> we are looking up the entire system and evaluating it through the entire lens of whether we're doing everything we ca

national secure. the agency factions at the end they have you on the screen saying where do you asking the question where do you draw the line between the gathering of intelligence that the government has to have and the protection of civil liberties particularly the sanctity of the home and you end with a kind of heartfelt cry you have no right to enter my home come into my home right but as you know i'm sure there in your home right now larry and mine if you have an i phone in your pocket i don't know if you have it right now in your kitchen or your bedroom or your chargin in the bedroom at night as i do the n.s.a. the national security agency can store record store all of your conversation any of your more generally if you have a computer in your home your tweets your e-mail your purchases over online your google searches all of that including your i phone or a smartphone is a g.p.s. all of your movements is all on record to be retrieved at will when the president says we don't listen to your calls sort of ha

the national security agency controversial surveillance program has been ruled legal in new york. a judge in washington ruled against the nsa in a different case. >>> an international community is condemning the assassination of a lebanese politician killed in a car bomb in beirut. mohammed chata h and six others were killed in a car bomb blast. >>> iran's government is considering moving its capitol from tehran to a new city. here is more from tehran. >> tehran is a new city by iran's standard, it's been its capitol for 200 years. now they want to change the seat of government. >> this is just moving the question, not the solution. there are too many ministries in tehran. highways built and planned, i don't think it's positive. >> it's not possible to move it with all these government buildings. okay, if you move it somewhere else we'll have the same problem. it's ridiculous. >> reporter: tehran's population fluctuates between eight and 14 million as people come and go during the day. it's also the country's largest city. add to that the 150,000 people who move to tehran each yea

deadline you are correct, but the white house will look at this, run it by the various agencies including the national security agency which is front and center in this controversy, but the c.i.a. dni and whole alphabet soup of agencies across the area. jay carney, the white house spokesman, he reacted to this earlier today. >> part of the process that the president has asked for is one that will allow us to be as transparent as possible, and to, as he said, propose self-restraint on the nsa and give people more confidence, and in giving people more confidence involves giving people more information. >> reporter: the white house is being very closed lip about exactly what is in this report. there is evidence that the advisory panel wants different rules to account for the changes, tony, in intelligence gathering technology, especially with regard to foreigners, that is a big problem that the united states has faced. it is illegal to gather a lot of this information about american individuals. not so about foreigners, that has caused outrage around the world. heads of state, the fisa court where the in

thank you. >> ifill: a federal judge ruled today that the national security agency's bulk collectionphone records is likely unconstitutional. judge richard leon said the massive round-up of calls was an unreasonable search and violated americans' reasonable expectation of privacy. but he put his decision on hold pending a likely government appeal. we'll have more on today's ruling right after the news summary. the u.n. made a record $6.5 billion appeal today for aid to tackle syria's refugee crisis. more than nine million syrians have fled in the past three years as a civil war rages. two million of them have escaped to nearby countries, including many who are now enduring unusually cold weather in tented camps. the u.n.'s high commissioner for refugees said the money would go chiefly to countries who've taken in the largest number of fleeing syrians. >> we are addressing the needs of a potential number of 4.1 million refugees at the end of 2014, projecting the present trend until then. but but also of 2.7 million vulnerable people in the host communities. there is a tragedy in the p

as we continue our conversation about the national security agency. sunday, the german publication der spiegel revealed new details about secretive hacking or secretive hacking unit inside the nsa called the office of tailored access operations, or tao. the unit was created in 1997 to hack of global communications traffic will stop still with us, jameel jaffer, deputy legal director of the aclu and glenn greenwald, the journalist who first broke the story about edward snowden. glenn, can you talk about the revelations in der spiegel? >> sure. i think everybody by now knows that the goal of the nsa really is the elimination of privacy worldwide -- not hyperbole, not metaphor, that is literally their goal. but the specifics are still really important to illustrate the scope and invasiveness and dangers presented by the secret surveillance system. and whether -- what the der spiegel article details, one of the things the nsa is really adept at doing is implanting in various machines -- computers, laptops, even cell phones and the like -- malware. that is

agency of several principles that should governor future surveillance by the u.s. government. at the core of those principles is an end to the mass bulk data collection of national security agency. what we learned over the last few months from whistle blower edward snowdon is the nsa is hoovering up vast quantities of information whether you're an american citizen or not and storing it. they say that has to stop. they also say that what is needed is more oversight legal framework. they're getting worried. they fear the more we learn about the u.s. government's surveillance for americans and non-americans, but the lesser we trust american internet companies who are seen having cooperated with the u.s. government in handing over all our information. >> we're talking about big business versus what some call big brother. can they prevail? >> reporter: clearly they have a lot of money and clout. one of those in the congress who is sponsoring legislation is dianne feinstein, senator from california, and her reform codifies and enshrines mass data surveillance. but there is another bill in congress which they seem to echo a bipartisan bill. president obama is talking a

that was what the allegation was towards the national security agency. him on the president's communications with her staff. she said this is an affront to our state. she canceled her own trip to washington. notably, the defense minister n overf saying saab wo boeing because of the performance, the cost of the aircraft. it is their willingness to transfer technology, not because of any spying scandal. there are many people voicing that that probably is why boeing lost out. if brazil is going to ramp up its spending, $8.6 billion per year is what they are estimating to spend on their armed forces. they are putting in 100 orders for jet fighters. this is a big loss for going. >> we believe that there. extra wrapping that up. we had news out of russia as well. president putin is half an his antiwar press conference. ryan chilcote, our russian man in the hot seat there. what is your feeling so far? what are we hearing? >> he has become the press conference talking about ukraine, really making two points. the first one being that russia is not opposed to ukra

or do we say that what the national security agency was doing is what caused the damage? >> diplomacy also made a comeback in 2013 as secretary of state john carry embarked on an act on three foughts. israeli-palestinians peace talk, forcing iran to give up its nuclear ambition. >> i've made it clear in letters to the supreme leader in iran and more recently to their president that america preserves to resolve our concerns peacefully. although we are determined to prevent iran from develop agnew clear weapon. >> there was a critical election that happened in june that ushered in a man who is regarded within the context of the iranian clerical leadership who clearly made overchures to the united states that he wanted to have better relations. he was ready for some sort of nuclear deal and that brought us by the end of this year to a place where we do have a first step, a six-month deal. we'll see what happens next year. the proof will be in the pudding. but iran is clearly one issue. >> negotiating like an enemy is one thing. syria president bashar al-assad has turned time

right now the nsa, the national security agency holds all of that data and analyzes it on its own. it recommends new legislation so the phone companies are an outside, and the nsa would have to get judicial approval to actually do searches against it. i think that's quite good in technology allows that to occur in the future. it insurances that there is less of a privacy invasion because the government wouldn't hold the data. but it still provides the nsa with the flexibility it needs to do the sorts of searches to find national security threats. >> you would agree that that is a good move? >> i would great-- agree it is a good move. i would disagree of how major of a move it. at the moment what the law provides is that the government gos and has made a database with five years of metadata on every call by every american. this recommendation would stop that. the government would no longer have a database like that. and instead when they had a specific telephone number that they believed was reasonably connected to a terrorist, they would go to a judge, get permission to then go to

it is the exact opposite of what you were supposed to do with radioactive waste the national agency for radioactive waste set out some rules one of which specifies that waste can't come into contact with water but there it had been put in the middle of the sea. is completely surrounded by water. there's another problem the seabed is crossed with which the military claims are natural. opponents argue that they were the result of nuclear tests whatever the cause they have grown larger over time following the unfortunate blast the french commission on atomic energy set up a geo mechanics survey station in one nine hundred eighty. different content over the last thirty years there's been a system in place called tel site that is a remote surveillance of the site and was constructed using several different installation techniques laterally incline drilling of cables that are anchored three to four thousand meters in the call cliffs that allow for very precise measurements of the movements there are seismic stations and inclinometer is in the wells that allow us to see and measure the interna

nine years later, a national agency for disaster management stressed the importance of making communities disaster resistant. >> translator: we need to think about what we are able to do before a disaster hits, and take adequate measures. >> reporter: a variety of storms have hit over the last nine years. a typhoon killed more than 6,000 people in the philippines. flood in thailand in addition to human property damage interrupted manufacturing supply chains, affecting the areas outside the region as well. some say better regional cooperation could help in such disaste disasters. in october, asean neighbors held a meeting in hanoi. more than 2,000 police officers, firefighters and personnel from ten countries took part. they tested a system with japan's help. the system enables countries to share information on what kind of assistance they can offer. southeast asia is prone to natural disasters from earthquakes, tsunami, and typhoon, to high tides. they need to get measures in place to deal with these calamities. as the region takes on the global economy, the need for regional cooperation

refugeeed nations agency has been monitoring this mass exodus. seeking to bring relief to the displaced, with a strong emphasis on schooling. >> our main objective is to make sure that this is not a lost generation. and for that, we need to bring them to school. now having the opportunity to go to school. they need cycle-social support. we are not able to provide it to the level required. >> a recent survey from unhcr refugees in lebanon have no birth certificates, meaning they run the risk of being stateless. due to the ongoing violence in syria, none of these families know when they are going to be able to return. their parents with their children could soon go back to grow up in the place they once called home. syria, u.n.ith investigators probing the conflict's war crimes say they have evidence that implicates resident asher al-assad. human rights chief navi pillay revealed she was in possession of a list of suspects who one day may face chirac -- trial for violations including torture and mass killings. she said the evidence indicates respon