my own big gay brother, and sadly, my big brother didn't make it to today.ed away, he lost his fight with cancer and he will never see this day of freedom. so you know what? even if he had made it here, he lived in a state that doesn't have it today. and what we have to do is do it in the big cities but we have to do it in the more conservative areas. in the south. we have to reach out and tell our stories. we have to be brave in these areas because in some of these areas people can still lose their jobs for being lgbt. it is the only way we can break down the myths and lies and stereotypes we have been told for generations about gays and lesbians, in the government and sometimes within our own family. when these go away, we'll have equality. >> stuart, your uncle was one who even knew on victory night that there was more work to do tomorrow. >> absolutely. and just as you heard, we have 37 states that do not recognize marriage equality. but we have whole countries, and we actually have whole continents that don't. and one of the things i absolutely believe

ron, the book "1984" zoomed up on amazon, but big brother has become a private public partnership. and senator diane feinstein wants to reign in the outsourced intelligence industry. is that even possible at this point? >> there has always been a big defense contracting side of the defense establishment, but it grew after 9/11, partly because of the sense that we had to really ramp up quickly on a lot of fronts and partly for an ideologic preference, for having the private sector rather than growing government in some instances, but overall clearly there is a lot of debate about what these are going to mean and what the revelations are going to debate on national security versus privacy, and it's going to lead to sharp questioning about the extent of how we are relying on some of the information from the companies. >> booz, it makes it the 14th largest federal contractor. and the ties run deeper than money. national security agency director, james clapper, he previously worked for booz allen, and john mcconnell, he is now the vice chairman. amid all those revelations this week, who

imagined a society in which our every movement is monitored by an update all seeing figure called "big brother." today, big data has more ability than orwell imagined, to see, record everything we do, to know much of what we think. one thing would surely surprise orwell. instead of our citizens demanding their privacy, they

big brother was watching.mputers became popular people feared that the internet would become government'way of controlling s. we libertarians said, no, the opposite is true. the intert and personal computer revolution is have freed us from all kinds of government corol. it did, but lately we learn about several orwellian like intrusions on our privacy. mostecently that the national security agency tracks our phone call and some e-mails. this is a terrible threat to ameran liberties, says congressman justin amash. congressman, why? they are just minding the debt. they're not listening to o phonealls. >> well, it violates the nstitution. the fourth amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, and is clearly violates the fourth amendment. the problem we havis that the government is gathering informatn using what is essentially a general warrant, which was outlawed by the constitution. they're going after people,ot -n the basis of any suspicion, not on the basis of anyroble cause, but jus beca

often big brother and m i complacent? we will debate that next. had.ohn: new calls to put more security cameras all across america us to save us from another attack. >> are you okay with more cameras? >> yes. john: i don't want to get bombed and if it does discourage that to help other crime and burglaries and robberies i would say that is good but the cameras are a form of big brother watching all the time. our sheriff says the loss of privacy is worth in the yeaa safer because of cameras. know we're not says ginger the cameras don't even work and as with the electronic privacy information center. what do you mean? i assume they catch bad guys to make a starkly they're not as effective at preventing or solving crime. john: what do you mean? that is how we found the boston marathon bombers. >> actually that is not how we found them there was a lot of things going on, i witness identification and stillness of billions cameras or privately-owned and eventually the fingerprints of the older brother and there are government-owned surveillance cameras it di

. >> this big brother has done a lot greedier than george orwell thought it would never get. >> whenou call grandma in nebraska the nsa knows. john: the president says you have nothing to worry about. >> nobody is listening to your

the privacy and how do we monitor that on a bigger scale u i tell you mike, it's left me with a big brotherng that i've got. i know you're on the other side in terms of the community. >> i understand that. stuart: mike baker, thank you for joining us on this issue. big deal indeed. i want to bring in judge andrew napolitano on the criminal investigation that's launched by the justice department. judge, are east pspionage-- in other words, for nem to charge them his purpose was and intent was an aid an enemy of the united statee. and he has stated his intent was to expose the big brother aspect, the dark side of the american government in a free society the american people have to the right to know that. i think it'd be easier for the government to convict him of a simple charge, violating his national security charge, he's basically admitted to. stuart: you can pay a high price. >>, but it's not like prison as in espionage. however, the government almost always overcharges, charges greater than the evidence bears because the result is either a compromise in the form of a guilty plea or the

all are afraid of big brother. >> big brother is spying on all of us. >> now with obama, we actually our telephone. >> does the nsa collect any type of data? >> no, sir. >> there is this massive surveillance state. >> this program is fully overseen not just by congress, but by the fisa court. the fisa court works. separation of powers works. >> what could be a far more explosive government program. >> with respect to the internet. this does not apply to u.s. citizens. >> unlike during the bush administration -- >> the illegal eavesdropping program. >> -- it's the obama administration. >> there are some tradeoffs. >> he is always trying to

if you're big brother. big brother was able to do what he was able to do in george orwell's 1984 because they intentionally kept people ignorant. john commented on that in his remarks and he's exactly right. and what we are seeing in today's environment is if you don't agree, they will try to find ways to silence you. e've got the i.r.s. abuse. fec intimidation. epa discrimination. doj intimidation. nsa corruption. in it goes on and on and on terms of the abuse and the corruption in the government that wants to control all of our lives. and that's wy you are here and that's why i'm here. because we're not going to be ignorant to the truth. we're not going to be ignorant to the facts. because i know everybody in this room believes and feels as i do. we're going to take our government back. after i dropped out of the presidential race because of the viciousness of the media, they thought i was going to be quiet. that's not going to happen. that's not going to happen. here's how we take our government back. be

that is pretty big brother and i will tell you why. i think berry is right. if there is some reason to have that surveillance, it should be made available. if you don't want to give it up, then a judge can get it from you. however, my job is to save my clients money and do the right thing for my clients. i tell everyone of my clients get video surveillance because in the last couple of years i have seen one client save a quarter million dollars with an ugly lawsuit. he can prove from the video when the person walked in the club and they were staggering when they came in and when they came out and they were beat up god knows where. they were able to prove it with the video. on new years day, my client had the best sophisticated surveillance and there had been a homicide down the street on new years day and this video surveillance was able to go outside, isolate a camera and zoom in on that person that walked in the liquor establishment and pretty much finger a murder and that murderer is off the street. there is really good reason to have video if you have a p

and ideas that they're sharing with their private friends and family members i mean this is just big brother i mean it is have we reached one of those rare moments

out front tonight big brother is watching you. literally, with a drone. and without rules. today fbi director admitted under questioning during a senate judiciary committee hearing. >> does the fbi own or currently use drones and if so for what purpose? >> yes and for surveillance. i think i can assume since you

(laughter) (applause) you see there are always ways to opt out of big brother. here to tell me that there is no way to opt out of big brother is the president & ceo of the national constitution center legal affairs editor of the new republic and law professor at george washington university, jeffrey rosen, jeffrey, thank you so much for joining me. all right. you got this new article in the new republic, available on-line asking president obama to reveal the letter that says why he has the right to do this gathering to the nsa. what do you have with this-- what's your beef here, sir. what are you hiding that you don't want obama to find out about? well, president obama called for a national debate about the fourth amendment. and i want to participate in that debate by saying as justin-- justice antonin scalia did just this monday, a hero of yours, a conservative. now he's my hero too because he said the framers of the fourth amendment would have been appalled by the idea that the government could seize information without particularly specifying the place to be

big brothers and big sisters serves children in five bay area counties. no word yet on how this may affect services. >>> tomorrow at the state capitol, there will be a lot of talk about one second. there's a plan to make yellow lights longer by a single second. big deal, you say? well, in a story you'll only see on kpix 5, allen martin shows us a single second is costing lots of drivers a lot of money. >> it happened four years ago, but roger jones hasn't forgotten his $500 red light camera ticket. >> it's like a cash machine. it's so unfair. >> despite losing an appeal, he kept on collecting data on cameras in his hometown of fremont, analyzing charts from three busy red light camera intersections, jones discover what had he says is something interesting. two-thirds or more of the violations were in thest fir half second of the red. >> it's a half a second. who knows. who cares. minuscule. well, it makes a huge difference in the camera game. >> how big a difference? a fourth intersection at mission and mohave he says proves his point when the yellow ligh

they're playing big brother to help keep us safe there's probably no need for them to go in i understand they're just arguing that they were just getting data and not content but where do you draw the line with that i mean not really into the whole big brother situation but as i don't have anything to hide i'm not very surprised that the government is taking her information and if you make a personal phone call to someone that shouldn't be tracked back unless you're a pedophile or something like that give anything to hide now now i mean they're going to see a lot of calls my mom and the babysitter but that's about it whether you're on verizon sprint or eighteen it seems the consensus among cell phone users is that the government collects your phone records is an invasion of privacy in washington and chad boyle r.t. so it appears as if some people are ok with what the n.s.a. is doing while others to see it as a huge breach of privacy if you're wondering what these records give the n.s.a. access to the agency can figure out who you are calling how long you spoke for and the agency might ev

the book 1984 zoomed up but big brother has become a public partnership.cludes northrup grumm manned, lockheed martin and even dell where snowden worked before booz allen. a senator wants to reign in the outsour outsourcing. is that possible at this point? >> there's always been a big contracting sized of the defense establishment. it grew exponentially after 9/11 partly because of the sense we had to ramp up quickly on a lot of different fronts and partly ideological in a republican sector having private companies grow rather than government. there's a lot of debate what this will mean, what the revelations mean about the debate for privacy. i think it's pretty unequivocal it will lead to sharp questioning to the extent we're relying on companies in the national bureaucracy. >> booze hamilton 99% of its revenue from the government. it wouldn't $34 billion in contract -- won $4 billion in contracts in 2012 makes it only the 14th largest contractor. national security director james clapper previously worked for booz allen and the former nsa director john mc

you guys at big brother watch say that this is about the regulation of it because you know the police say that they're doing this to you know for example what we saw in the london riots in two thousand and eleven a lot of people will understand that and say you know that's exactly what the police should be. saying there's this kind of gap in the regulation whereby you know no one really knows what what's allowed and what's not exactly and that has to be proportionate i mean we see far too often where people make very silly comments online and they're immediately arrested because of some outrage of some of the people on online and there isn't actually a legal basis for that and so the other hand we see people who are probably you know. who are organizing big protests or riots who are getting wise to there seems very moving further and further underground so there has to be a level of proportionality there in terms of what information is being gay. there's a more. thank you very much for joining us the met police have in that city go to get about the information about. the cause the fur

>> even big brother changes information. should be realize tick. there is no human reader going through looking at your e-mail ch it is impossible. >> it is the interaction between cold data and live humans where the sinner gee takes place. it was a different story when they went through hours of footage. bombers but to avoid false leads that can waste valuable time and the turning point came when they released the information on april 18 asking the public to help identify the is discuss spents. the suspects were captured by the next day. they were allegedly planning to go to new york and set off more ex-plowive j., who knows how many more might have died if not tore what could be seen as an ultimately successful data mining operation. >> when we return. growing up in an age where all of the stupid things you do can live forever o >>> in the late 1800s, future >> in the late 1800's lewey brenda is worried about a new phenomenon, snapshot photography. if newspapers can snap and print any one's pictures what would happen to ou

. >> paul: this week on the "journal editorial report", charges of big brother abound in the wake of the nsa surveillance leaks, but in the era of irs targeting and exploding federal regulations, should data mining be your biggest worry? and will shutting down diminish our abilities. free speech on campus, just released federal guidelines endangering faculty and student rights. >> paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot. charges of big brother from both the left and the right this week in the wake of the nsa surveillance controversy. the leaks couldn't have come at a worse time showing polls public's trust in government is historic lows. in an era of irs targeting and runaway with federal regulations, how worried should we be? is data mining our biggest threat? let's ask dan henninger. mary o'grady and editorial board member joe rago. dan, explain something to me. these programs begin under george w. bush. they have had bipartisan support. what explains the uproar now against them? >> you know, i think it's two things. it's basically the dramatic way in which th

>> i hope big brothers like the heels i ordered the other day then. i am very conrned.ncerned. it's not that you know this is not going to stop. this started with your soda. now they arem coal down on everything. look, i get the notion they want to ep us safe. but there has to be a way to do this and be transparent at the sa time. otherwise, i'm loving the black heels. i hope you are too. >> eric: austan, where do you fall this one? it doesn't seem to be partisan line. some are okay and say keep me safe. others say too much government overreach. >> you know, i think a couple of things. this does creep me out. i thought there wou be a mash shift of people getting rid of verizon and go to at&t. but we found out it's wh all the carrier the national security part of this,t's somewhat notable on a partisan basis, all the senators from the senate intelligence committee who know what is going on, which we do not. they have co out in a bipartisan basis and say they support it and think it's important for the country to have this ability. the issue on the internet, they are focu

>> according to angel even big brother faces road blocks. if the government wants to track you, its ability to gather all sorts of private data and to analyze it at massive facilities like this nsa data center still under construction in utah will allow them to do it. >> there is no human reading going through and looking at your e-mails. it is possible. it is only going to look at things the computer throws out as interesting or important. >> it is the interaction between cold data and live humans where the synergy takes place. if the failure to connect the dots before the boston bombings was a case where the investigators misread the data it was a different story when the investigators had a more specific idea what to look for. they combed through countless photographs and hours of footage not only allowing them to zero in on the bombers but to avoid false leads that can waste valuable time and the turning point came when they released the information on april 18 asking the public to help identify the is discuss spents. the suspects were c

next, big brother may be illino's another hit, now at an all-time low. the governor is calling lawmakers to a special session focused on solving the state's pension crisis. wgn's gaynor hall joins us with the details. gaynor? first fitch, now moody's. both downgrading illinois' credit rating this week. and still no agreement from lawmakers on how to fix the 100 billion dollar pension debt that's gobbling up the state's finances. governor pat quinn calling lawmakers back to work on june 19 to deal with the pension "emergency." in a statement saying, "time and time again over the past two years, i have proposed, asked and pushed members of the general assembly to send me a comprehensive pension reform bill. time and time again, failure to act by deadlines has resulted in the bond rating agencies lowering our credit rating, which hurts our economy, wastes taxpayer money and shortchanges the education of our children." also at stake is quinn's future. he's up for re-election next year. republican state treasurer dan rutherford, who announced he's running for

. >> big brother, big sister, big daddy, in is ridiculous, it, it is un-american for the companies to have our private information and they are making a profit. and sharing with the government. neil: rick extinguish -- distinguishing between the government having this and the private companies having it, they are both bad. >> i think liz has it right. nobody cares, i have to tell you, i have been -- >> i think they do. >> i think -- now you are right. >> they don't. neil: attendtion spans when they are, but when a size of magnitude of what is going to it troubles them. >> you know, first of all, you wouldn't see it in terms of the government, based on polls, that might change, have you not seen it all these years from private sector it has been going on, maybe the price is coming down, that may bother everyone. >> you are right about that. >> but it has gone going on since the at vend of the internet. >> that is bad, we don't know about it, a secret society. >> we knew about it. neil: he sat on homeland securrty committee, he was privy to thinks we were not but he knew about, that and

. >>> this week on "the journal editorial report" charges of big brother abound in the wake of the nsa surveillance leaks, but in the era of irs targeting, government run health care and exploding federal regulations, should data mining be your biggest worry? will shutting the program down diminish our terror fighting abilities? a new front in the battle over free speech on campus, new just released federal guidelines endanger faculty and student rights. >>> welcome to "the journal editorial report." i'm paul gigot. charges of big brother from both the left and the right this week in the wake of the nsa surveillance controversy. the leaks couldn't have come at a worse time with polls showing the public's trust in government already at historic lows. so, in an era of irs targeting, government-run health care and runaway federal regulations, how worried should we be? and is data mining our biggest threat? let's ask "wall street journal" columnist and deputy editor dan henninger, columnist mary o'grady and editorial board member joe rago. so dan, explain something to me. these programs be

other well managed our society in which every movement is monitored by an all seeing figure called big brother has far more ability than even orwell imaged to see, record, analyze everything we do. to even know much of what we think. but one thing would surely surprise orwell. instead of citizens demanding their privacy they can't wait to give it away. >> if the root end is behaving like a moron a lot of people are willing to give up their privacy, give up their sense of shame, give up their embarrassment. >> the problem is there's not enough fame or fortune for everyone with a digital camera and a broadband connection. the capacity to screw up your life does seem lime mittless. >> dominos pizza employee fired and criminally charged after posting a video of themselves doing gross things to food they were repairing: >> a high school -- this taco bell employee was fired after posting this picture. >> today i am announcing my resignation from congress. >> who can forget married new york congressman anthony weiner forced to resign in disgrace after a tweeted picture of his privates went viral. >>

i know you do not want to hear this, but big brother is already here. the brother wants to control everything. control our retirement, social security if we do not have supplemental. ify control our health-care we are not able to kill this terrible legislation. they control much of our money because of the tax code. one of the fundamental principles that big brother operated under, which allowed it to be successful was the principle of ignorance is if you are big brother. big brother was able to do what it was able to do in george 9084 because they intentionally kept people a living. today'sare seeing in environment is, if you do not agree, they will try to find ways to silence you. of use, fecirs intimidation, epa discrimination, doj corruption,, nsa on and on and on in terms of the abuse and corruption in the government that wants to control all of our lives. that is why you are here and that is why i am here. we are not going to be ignorant to the truce. we are not going to be ignorant to the fact because i know everybody in this room healy's and feel