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they heard from clapper and alexander, who have not been truthful.stance, alexander has claimed the nsa's massive spying has thwarted 54 incidents of terrorism affecting the united states. this was immediately debunked, mostly by the press, and the fbi later testified in hearings that, no, is really only one example they can come up with and it is actually a very flimsy example of a case involving giving a few thousand dollars to show bob -- shabab. senator feinstein and others are able in a very misleading way to revise history and claim if the nsa had been collecting the massive data before 9/11, these attacks would not have occurred. they can do this because many people have forgotten the 9/11 commission and the various in curriesconcluded -- in included just the opposite of what diane feinstein is saying. back then, the rationale was the dots were not connected and the dots or not connected because there was too much intelligence flowing in. officials claim intelligence is like a firehose, and we can't a sip from a firehose. that is the excuse th
they heard from clapper and alexander, who have not been truthful.stance, alexander has claimed the nsa's massive spying has thwarted 54 incidents of terrorism affecting the united states. this was immediately debunked, mostly by the press, and the fbi later testified in hearings that, no, is really only one example they can come up with and it is actually a very flimsy example of a case involving giving a few thousand dollars to show bob -- shabab. senator feinstein and others are able in a...
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clapper. as the media and congress are totally tied in knots over the shutdown, no one is paying to the irs enemies list. and no one investigating what happen in benghazi and the official inquiry of what information that nsa and department of homeland security are collecting on loyal american citizens receives no attention what so ever. clapper said it is a dream land for foreign intelligence services to rekraut. why now? >> apparently he believes that he has employees in the intelligence agencies over which he has the umbrella authority that sellout their country for the back pay. that's what he is saying, that to me is outrageous. >> it is more than 70 percent were furloughed and connected to the cia and senator lindsay graham said if it is true. do you believe it to be true, colonel? >> no, i don't. i know many people serving in the intelligence services and very few have respect for mr. clapper. nlindsay graham's point if it is close to being true why isn't the commander and chief making t
clapper. as the media and congress are totally tied in knots over the shutdown, no one is paying to the irs enemies list. and no one investigating what happen in benghazi and the official inquiry of what information that nsa and department of homeland security are collecting on loyal american citizens receives no attention what so ever. clapper said it is a dream land for foreign intelligence services to rekraut. why now? >> apparently he believes that he has employees in the intelligence...
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i raise this today with general clapper. i think there has to be a real discussion about the intelligence community's obligation under a -- national security act of 47 to inform congress of significant intelligence activities like these that have such tremendous blowback potential. i'm not confident in light of these recent allegations that we are getting those full briefings, we do know the full scope of what is going on overseas. we have a lot more visibility of what happens here at home. we all have more safeguards in domestic surveillance because we have the fiza court as well operating and that can be improved. we have lot less visibility overseas and plainly, that's going change in the intelligence committees and has to change. >> congressman, you sit on the house intelligence committee. how much have you learned from edward snowden as opposed to from u.s. government sources that should be briefing you and your fellow members of the intelligence commit i don't the nsa programs? >> you know, some of these programs i don
i raise this today with general clapper. i think there has to be a real discussion about the intelligence community's obligation under a -- national security act of 47 to inform congress of significant intelligence activities like these that have such tremendous blowback potential. i'm not confident in light of these recent allegations that we are getting those full briefings, we do know the full scope of what is going on overseas. we have a lot more visibility of what happens here at home. we...
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let me say to general alexander, and to director clapper.'m a new member of the committee, as you know. i have learned so much in this amount of time. i is had the out most respect for not only what you do each and every day but the people and the team you direct each and every day. having said that, i have to tell you that the american people have lost confidence in what we do. i think that at some point per accepting become realty even though reality may be something totally different and not based on the facts as you know it or laid out today. my comment we should ear on transparency. to the extend we can make declassified information so the american people can understand what you do the better off i think all of us will be. where i come from. i think we need to reform the programs not just dismantle the program but i think there are ways question make them much more transparent. it for example, on the fisa court, can you explain how the one goes about getting a warrant and goes before the fisa court currently? and is that an adversarial
let me say to general alexander, and to director clapper.'m a new member of the committee, as you know. i have learned so much in this amount of time. i is had the out most respect for not only what you do each and every day but the people and the team you direct each and every day. having said that, i have to tell you that the american people have lost confidence in what we do. i think that at some point per accepting become realty even though reality may be something totally different and not...
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two questions and i will ask them both at the same time and asked general clapper to think about the second one. the oversight over all these programs if you would walk us through these various layers of compliance officers privacy civil liberty and each step to make sure we get at the oversight processes and then general clapper if you would give us some sort of guess as to the total manhours and dollars that we would use in that oversight process based on your experience? general alexander? >> congressman thank you and thank you for those words for our people. i'm going to start with the oversight we have an essay. inspector general and general
two questions and i will ask them both at the same time and asked general clapper to think about the second one. the oversight over all these programs if you would walk us through these various layers of compliance officers privacy civil liberty and each step to make sure we get at the oversight processes and then general clapper if you would give us some sort of guess as to the total manhours and dollars that we would use in that oversight process based on your experience? general alexander?...
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james clapper says the u.s. spying on friendly for leaders is common, has been going on for years, and that our allies spy on us in return. >> it's invaluable to us to know where countries are coming from, what their policies are, how that would impact us across a whole range of issues. >> clapper suggested the outrage and surprise expressed by allies in recent days is either naive or disingenuous. >> some of this reminds me a lot of the classic movie casablanca. my god, there is gambling going on here. same kind of thing. >> the capitol hill grilling follows overseas reports on nsa spying in france, germany and spain. but nsa director keith alexander calls those reports false. they defended the data sweeping program as lawful and aimed at foreign terrorists and successful in saving lives. but a german member of the european parliament tells nbc news that confidence is destroyed. today a german delegation is expected at the white house to meet with clapper and other security officials. >>> now to a breaking stor
james clapper says the u.s. spying on friendly for leaders is common, has been going on for years, and that our allies spy on us in return. >> it's invaluable to us to know where countries are coming from, what their policies are, how that would impact us across a whole range of issues. >> clapper suggested the outrage and surprise expressed by allies in recent days is either naive or disingenuous. >> some of this reminds me a lot of the classic movie casablanca. my god, there...
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you heard clapper talking about that saying this is not that. that now days there are checks and balances many of those checks and balances put in place since 1975. when the senate and intelligence committee began looking at what intelligence was gathering and how that intelligence was being used. if the wormed is listening we are not the same u.s. that you thought you may have known, is that what you heard? >> talking about the church hide tees and the subsequent report. the general pointed out. and the other possible civil rights. >> it is not another 9/11. that visits this country -- do this intelligence gathering they have been able to prevent some planned attacks. he said to the panel general alexandre that we would rather be here defending these programs rather than giving the programs up and then coming before the panel and explaining why americans were killed. i will ask you this question. and that being what led us to this point in other words after september 11th what was the climate like in washington. you saw people with glasses on t
you heard clapper talking about that saying this is not that. that now days there are checks and balances many of those checks and balances put in place since 1975. when the senate and intelligence committee began looking at what intelligence was gathering and how that intelligence was being used. if the wormed is listening we are not the same u.s. that you thought you may have known, is that what you heard? >> talking about the church hide tees and the subsequent report. the general...
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somebody should take charge and clapper's an experienced person. wolf, the simple point i would make is that, most of the u.s. government response, including by clapper to the nsa scandal, has focused on domestic reaction in the u.s. americans who say, wait a minute, you know, we don't want our data, our met ta data, saying who we called on cell phones, whatever, we don't want that collected by the nsa. clapper's responded to that he's pushed back against nsa and says you have to disclose more than you're comfortable with. u.s. officials sometimes say things like, look, sorry, the fourth amendment against unnecessary search and seizure, that doesn't apply to foreign citizens, that's for american citizens. i think they have to say more to people like chancellor angela merkel, a key u.s. friend and ally, because they're really mad. >> not only the germans, french are mad, mexicans are mad, brazilians. a lot of countries with good relations to the was angry right now. >> these days, throw a dart at a map of the world and you'll hit a country that's ma
somebody should take charge and clapper's an experienced person. wolf, the simple point i would make is that, most of the u.s. government response, including by clapper to the nsa scandal, has focused on domestic reaction in the u.s. americans who say, wait a minute, you know, we don't want our data, our met ta data, saying who we called on cell phones, whatever, we don't want that collected by the nsa. clapper's responded to that he's pushed back against nsa and says you have to disclose more...
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clapper presented today.doctor -- general alexander when asked if 20 records of all americans would testify i believe quoted as a nation's best interest to put all code records into a lock box and weaken certain when the nation needs to do it. besides the phone records were the records to believe the federal government should be doing? >> i cannot think of any right now. they give for the question because we did not have foreign brodeur i did not think of other bulk records that we would need like the phone but i do think fazio look at the phone data that is the question releasing the intel committee today what they understood of the vocational data and the requirements, a rethink right now there are but i cannot think of any. i apologize. >> and also whether the nsa tried to gather the data of the phone calls and there was some suggestion from senator wide and it was a classified matter. my question is in your personal opinion, do you believe the nsa needs to collect gps location information:american citizen
clapper presented today.doctor -- general alexander when asked if 20 records of all americans would testify i believe quoted as a nation's best interest to put all code records into a lock box and weaken certain when the nation needs to do it. besides the phone records were the records to believe the federal government should be doing? >> i cannot think of any right now. they give for the question because we did not have foreign brodeur i did not think of other bulk records that we would...
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clapper? >> i agree, and this is kind of, i think, standard fare for anyone who travels overseas, and it's also, i think, your comments a manifest -- manifestation of the emphasis i tried to place since i've been on this job on our own counterintelligence resources which i believe are still under funded. >> and this may be out of your bounds, but i'll ask it any way. striking to me that the parliament -- certainly members who come in good faith and have discussions on these issues, not really fully aware of what their intelligence services are up to. is that consistent with your career since 1963 when you talk about overseas intelligence services and their operations and how their compartmentalized away from their legislative body? >> yes, absolutely, chairman. i think that comports with my experience that often times policy makes who come and go may not have familiarity with exactly how their intelligence operations work. i'd tell you there's no other country on this planet that has the magni
clapper? >> i agree, and this is kind of, i think, standard fare for anyone who travels overseas, and it's also, i think, your comments a manifest -- manifestation of the emphasis i tried to place since i've been on this job on our own counterintelligence resources which i believe are still under funded. >> and this may be out of your bounds, but i'll ask it any way. striking to me that the parliament -- certainly members who come in good faith and have discussions on these issues,...
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james clapper, the top intelligence official in the nation says the u.s. spying on friendly foreign leaders is common. he said it's been going on for years and our allies spy on us in return. >> it's invaluable to us to know where countries are coming from, what their policies are, how that would impact us across a whole range of issues. >> clapper suggesting the outrage and surprise expressed by allies in kre recent days is either naive or disengenious. >> some of this reminds me of the movie "casablanca". my god, there is gambling going on here. it's the same kind of thing. >> the capitol hill grilling followed overseas reports on spying in france, germany and spain. general keith alexander calls the reports false. the claims false. alexander and clapper defended the data-sweeping program as lawful and aimed at foreign terrorists and successful in saving lives. a german member of the european parliament tells nbc news that confidence is destroyed. today a german delegation is expected at the white house to meet with security officials. >>> overnight a do
james clapper, the top intelligence official in the nation says the u.s. spying on friendly foreign leaders is common. he said it's been going on for years and our allies spy on us in return. >> it's invaluable to us to know where countries are coming from, what their policies are, how that would impact us across a whole range of issues. >> clapper suggesting the outrage and surprise expressed by allies in kre recent days is either naive or disengenious. >> some of this...
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we heard james clapper defend that saying that's been done for a long time.do you think its ironic that this is really feeding the push to change things? even as they're defending it? >> i don't know that this is feeding it i think all the major reform bills on the table now were written before it happened, it's ironic that dianne feinstein has been one of the strongest defenders and now expressing outrage because her constituents are being spied on, but because angela merkel is. while these people don't have constitutional rights and the u.s. constitution, to alienate those foreign leaders creates a immediate problem for intelligence gathering. >> it's all about politics. >> it is largely politics. you can be assured of that. i this in several respects. what is driving some of these european leaders they have to deal politically in terms of their own political context. similarly here in the u.s. dianne feinstein and maybe other members of the committees are reacting to the image that they were not fully informed. i can assure you if they wanted to be fully i
we heard james clapper defend that saying that's been done for a long time.do you think its ironic that this is really feeding the push to change things? even as they're defending it? >> i don't know that this is feeding it i think all the major reform bills on the table now were written before it happened, it's ironic that dianne feinstein has been one of the strongest defenders and now expressing outrage because her constituents are being spied on, but because angela merkel is. while...
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that from the national intelligence director, james clapper, during a house hearing that is underway right now. he also says that finding out the intentions of other leaders is a bedrock principle of foreign intelligence operations, and that other countries do it, too. director clapper has been largely defending our government surveillance pray, but a short time ago he did acknowledge there have been errors. >> we do not spy on anyone except for valid foreign intelligence purposes and only work went the law. to be sure, on occasion, we have made mistakes, some quite significant, but they're usually caused by human error or technical problems, and whenever we found mistakes we have corrected them jerk director clapper says the government does not spy on americans, and that recent leaks have misrepresented our surveillance program. the hearings also featured somesome protesters, wearing the spy glasses. lawmakers kicked out one man just as the hearing was getting started. all of this comes after the recent backlash over reports that the agency was indeed monitoring the phone calls of d
that from the national intelligence director, james clapper, during a house hearing that is underway right now. he also says that finding out the intentions of other leaders is a bedrock principle of foreign intelligence operations, and that other countries do it, too. director clapper has been largely defending our government surveillance pray, but a short time ago he did acknowledge there have been errors. >> we do not spy on anyone except for valid foreign intelligence purposes and...
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clapper said, no, sir, it does not, not wittingly. there are cases where they could inadvertently collect but not wittingly. the nsa said the government does collect data about your phone calls every time you make one. >>> twitter looks different this morning. you know see pictures in the timeline. dave evans is in my timeline, a great guy at sisco. he is posting tons of pictures. some people not entirely thrilled with this improvement. you can turn it off on the phone, not on the desktop version. twitter going public. it is interesting they are making changes so late. reviewers have started to turn in their reviews of the new ipad air. >> david pogue with the "times." if you have never owned an ipad, this is the one to buy. buy the new air. any other kind of ipad, stick with what you've got for now. >>> minor changes but glowing reviews on the super ipad. >> so light. >> very light. >> we are going to try to tweet out some pictures. >> the next time they do an apple announcement, your twitter feed is going to be chock full. more scot
clapper said, no, sir, it does not, not wittingly. there are cases where they could inadvertently collect but not wittingly. the nsa said the government does collect data about your phone calls every time you make one. >>> twitter looks different this morning. you know see pictures in the timeline. dave evans is in my timeline, a great guy at sisco. he is posting tons of pictures. some people not entirely thrilled with this improvement. you can turn it off on the phone, not on the...
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director of national intelligence james clapper what he thought about all this and clapper basically said that trying to figure out and i want to get their words here the intentions of the planes and intentions of world leaders figuring that out is a basic tenet of surveillance so that outrage we saw from senate chairwoman intelligence chairwoman dianne feinstein yesterday over the news that we're spying on world leaders the outrage that she had didn't exist today in this hearing mike rogers the chairman there was again it gave a lot of deference the n.s.a. here and said look they're spying on us were spying on them that's just the way this is what i want of surveillance very interesting well it seems like right now there are questions over. when and how much the white house knew about this surveillance what about the congressional intelligence committees and charge of oversight here doesn't seem like they were aware. well there are a lot of questions there to chairman rogers seem to expect to suggest that the the house intelligence committee knew about this program that was spying o
director of national intelligence james clapper what he thought about all this and clapper basically said that trying to figure out and i want to get their words here the intentions of the planes and intentions of world leaders figuring that out is a basic tenet of surveillance so that outrage we saw from senate chairwoman intelligence chairwoman dianne feinstein yesterday over the news that we're spying on world leaders the outrage that she had didn't exist today in this hearing mike rogers...
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one of the lawsuit against eric clapper, who is the a national intelligence directo anremember that he told the senate committee thathe gave the least on truthful answer. long lying to congress as a federal crime and he should be fired by the president and prosecuted by the justice department. the other is doing i legislatively and senator patrick leahy andi will be introducing legislation as soon as we can get this back from the
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not only has james clapper not been prosecuted, he hasn't even lost his job.e is still the director of national intelligence many months after his lie was revealed, because there is no accountability for the top-level people in washington. the final thing to say about that, there are all kinds of american journalist who love to go on television and accuse edward snowden of committing all these horrible crimes, but are so brave when it comes to claiming [indiscernible] no one is ever gone on television said, james clapper committed crimes and he ought to be prosecuted. ,he question you just asked none of the reporters were american journalist who fancy themselves as aggressive top reporters would ever dare utter the idea that james clapper ought to be arrested or prosecuted for the crimes he committed because they are there to serve those interests and not to be a challenger or adversarial. interesting opinions are changing, meaning the pundits and writers are changing their views like richard cohen of "the washington post" whose latest be says -- "as time has
not only has james clapper not been prosecuted, he hasn't even lost his job.e is still the director of national intelligence many months after his lie was revealed, because there is no accountability for the top-level people in washington. the final thing to say about that, there are all kinds of american journalist who love to go on television and accuse edward snowden of committing all these horrible crimes, but are so brave when it comes to claiming [indiscernible] no one is ever gone on...
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>> you heard james clapper there. that this serious damages our ability to protect the safety and security of the nation and our citizens, are you in congress jeopardizing the national security with this shut down? >> the president has full authority with the government slow down that is occurring to put essential individuals still at work and they are essential for security and safety they are still at work. all of the security is still here because they are here. the administration is kind of moving things around i would say trying to make that statement. >> here's what james clapper said today. 70 percent of the intelligence committee is furloughed. are you confident that no national security issues are affected? >> i am not. the administration makes the decision on who is essential and nonessential personnel. cent percent of the intelligence community is not essential they made that decision. the house and president and all signed off on military. and yet the administration came back after it is passed, you know h
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said if you months earlier james clapper as you know is the director of national intelligence he is the leader of the u.s. intelligence community is and he had testimony at the u.s. senate on march thirteenth two thousand and thirteen and in that testimony he says he talks about iran's nuclear program and then he says that we do not know this is a quote we do not you know that iran you don't and leaders have decided to have a nuclear weapons program. which means that not only iranians don't have a bomb right now not only did don't have a program to make a bomb they have not even decided to have a program to make a bomb and you put that statement james clapper the statement next to obama as a settlement and you see that obama is going too far we don't have the bomb we don't have a nuclear program in and talking about iran's pursuit of nuclear program is repeating what netanyahu says which goes back to the point that israelis have a lot of influence in u.s. foreign policy in the middle east another thing that the one was said in his speech was he said that we are not that a regime cha
said if you months earlier james clapper as you know is the director of national intelligence he is the leader of the u.s. intelligence community is and he had testimony at the u.s. senate on march thirteenth two thousand and thirteen and in that testimony he says he talks about iran's nuclear program and then he says that we do not know this is a quote we do not you know that iran you don't and leaders have decided to have a nuclear weapons program. which means that not only iranians don't...
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said if you months earlier james clapper as you know is the director of national intelligence he is the leader of the u.s. intelligence community is and he had testimony at the u.s. senate on march thirteenth two thousand and thirteen and in that testimony he says he talks about iran's nuclear program and then he says that we do not know this is a quote we do not you know that iran you don't and leaders have decided to have a nuclear weapons program. which means that not only iranians don't have a bomb right now not only did don't have a program to make a bomb they have not even decided to have a program to make a bomb and you put that statement james clapper the statement next to obama as a settlement and you see that obama is going too far we don't have the bomb we don't have a nuclear program in and talking about iran's pursuit of nuclear program is repeating what netanyahu says which goes back to the point that israelis have a lot of influence in u.s. foreign policy in the middle east another thing that the one was said in his speech was he said that we are not that illusion of
said if you months earlier james clapper as you know is the director of national intelligence he is the leader of the u.s. intelligence community is and he had testimony at the u.s. senate on march thirteenth two thousand and thirteen and in that testimony he says he talks about iran's nuclear program and then he says that we do not know this is a quote we do not you know that iran you don't and leaders have decided to have a nuclear weapons program. which means that not only iranians don't...
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james clapper testifying on the senate judiciary hearing today.hat committee argues the controversial collection of our phone logs violates our fourth amendment right to privacy but clapper disagrees. >> intelligence community exists to collect the vital intelligence that helps protect our nation from foreign threats. what we do not do is spy unlawfully on americans or for that matter, spy indiscriminately on the citizens of any country. jenna: james clapper also commented on the national security right now with the partial shutdown. we'll talk about that in a moment. first start with this. >> thank you. good morning. one of the chair mane's main objective $ that the obama administration along with the n.s.a. continues to give misleading vfgs to burnish the effectiveness of the data collection program. >> would you agree that the 54 cases keep getting cited by the administration were not all plots and only 13 had some nexus to the u.s.? would you agree with that? yes or no? >> yes. >> on a recent report published by the "new york times" allege the
james clapper testifying on the senate judiciary hearing today.hat committee argues the controversial collection of our phone logs violates our fourth amendment right to privacy but clapper disagrees. >> intelligence community exists to collect the vital intelligence that helps protect our nation from foreign threats. what we do not do is spy unlawfully on americans or for that matter, spy indiscriminately on the citizens of any country. jenna: james clapper also commented on the national...
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you heard james clapper's response. are they spying on america? and his answer was categorical, absolutely. if that's true, should america stop spying on its closest allies? >> i guess the real question, who is in charge? the president doesn't seem to know if he is spying on our allies. from where i sit it doesn't seal like a good idea or it doesn't seem to advance diplomacy for us to be spying on our allies. personally the particular phone of the president of germany for ten years. i think that seems unseemly. that goes against having relations with your allies. >> people on the other side say america doesn't have the luxury of not spying when other people are spying. if your allies are spying out, then you've got no choice. >> yeah. didn't we have something about that when we were children about two wrongs don't make a right? i want our government to say that on terrorists, on people who they have probable cause that may attack us. but i think wasting time, spying on 70 million spaniards or 30 million french or 124 billion pieces of information
you heard james clapper's response. are they spying on america? and his answer was categorical, absolutely. if that's true, should america stop spying on its closest allies? >> i guess the real question, who is in charge? the president doesn't seem to know if he is spying on our allies. from where i sit it doesn't seal like a good idea or it doesn't seem to advance diplomacy for us to be spying on our allies. personally the particular phone of the president of germany for ten years. i...
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. >>> only minutes from now a house intelligence committee will hold hearings where james clapper andeith alexander are going to have to explain who knew what and when about the spying on german leader angela merkel, maybe they won't, since the fur or that caused this is secret. i asked lee greenwald if it was credible if president obama, as he claims, did not know president obama was spying on one of his most trusted european allies. >> unfortunately it is credible. nsa has become this rogue agency that does go off on its own and do whatever it wants. you would think the president or white house would be aware of that. at the same time an incredibly opaque world that is unto itself that operates actability. i don't know what's carrier, the president did know, approved it and is lying about it or didn't know and nsa took it upon itself to do that. >> california congressman adam schiff will be among those raising questions at the hearings. he's stopped off on the way. thank you very much. >> you bet. >> what's the most important thing you want to hear from the head of the nsa and natio
. >>> only minutes from now a house intelligence committee will hold hearings where james clapper andeith alexander are going to have to explain who knew what and when about the spying on german leader angela merkel, maybe they won't, since the fur or that caused this is secret. i asked lee greenwald if it was credible if president obama, as he claims, did not know president obama was spying on one of his most trusted european allies. >> unfortunately it is credible. nsa has...
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let me just play something else that james clapper said today. here he is. >> we face awn ending array of threats to our way of life, more than i've seen in my 50 years in intelligence. >> of course, senator, of obviously he's talk about broader threats. you're saying it's okay to spy on terrorists but not our allies. of course, 9/11 as we now know, a significant part of that was coordinated and planned in germany. industrial espionage for example happens all the time. the europeans i'm sure would love to spy and get all they could on america's biggest exporter boeing so they could get an advantage for airbus. why wouldn't we spy on europe to help europe, too? >> here's the thing, erin. you have now the chairman of the judiciary committee, senator leahy, the chairman of the judiciary committee or one of the committees in the house, james sensenbrener, two authors of the patriot act, now saying the head of our intelligence because we don't see to know who's in charge? it's conceivable that the head of the intelligence is spying on our president's
let me just play something else that james clapper said today. here he is. >> we face awn ending array of threats to our way of life, more than i've seen in my 50 years in intelligence. >> of course, senator, of obviously he's talk about broader threats. you're saying it's okay to spy on terrorists but not our allies. of course, 9/11 as we now know, a significant part of that was coordinated and planned in germany. industrial espionage for example happens all the time. the europeans...
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we heard a director clapper, who is now the director of national intelligence. we set up the department of homeland security. president bush pledged he would do everything he could to keep the country safe. i fear that the tea party, many of them are new to government, really don't understand the threats that are posed and are still out there. i personally believe that even if the constituents are concerned about health care, which they undoubtedly are, it is up to these members of congress to say "i understand that," but from my vantage point in washington, there are substantial threats to the united states and we cannot these important as intelligence and law-enforcement agencies and tie up the leadership of those departments at a time when we remain under serious terrorist threat. host: you say in your column that members are falling down in their response validity to educate their constituents about this issue -- responsibility to educate their constituents about this issue. is it members on both sides of the aisle? guest: primarily, i believe, it is the tea
we heard a director clapper, who is now the director of national intelligence. we set up the department of homeland security. president bush pledged he would do everything he could to keep the country safe. i fear that the tea party, many of them are new to government, really don't understand the threats that are posed and are still out there. i personally believe that even if the constituents are concerned about health care, which they undoubtedly are, it is up to these members of congress to...
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>> woodruff: congressman sensenbrenner, i lntd today to the testimony of james clapper, the head of the n.s.a. -- rather the head of national intelligence, also keith alexander. they said they are concerned about civil liberties but they're seeking a balance and what we heard keith alexander say is that they've been able -- he said "we have not had another attack on the united states since 9/11 he said? large part due to the work that they've been able to do and he expressed a fear if you take away these tools they can't guarantee they'll be able to continue to do that. >> well, nobody can guarantee the the bad guys won't be able to have an attack on the united states. but, look, what they oughting to do is find out who's involved in a terrorist operation and then use a target by going after that person and that person's phone records 6 and haul the people he's conspiring with. we're talking about trillions of records and i don't know how you can put the pieces of a trillion piece puzzle together in time to stop a terrorist strike. they sure didn't do it with the boston marathon bombing
>> woodruff: congressman sensenbrenner, i lntd today to the testimony of james clapper, the head of the n.s.a. -- rather the head of national intelligence, also keith alexander. they said they are concerned about civil liberties but they're seeking a balance and what we heard keith alexander say is that they've been able -- he said "we have not had another attack on the united states since 9/11 he said? large part due to the work that they've been able to do and he expressed a fear...
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but we continue to hear white house spokesman jay clapper refuse to say how extensive it is. how extensive america's spy operations has continued. this new amendment to the patriot act which has been discussed will also include provisions that will establish a privacy advocate, someone who can talk about civil liberties with respect to america's spike program and first of all it will require the foreign intelligence court that top secret court to make public some of its findings. heretofore, all of of its findis have been made in secrecy but not anymore. to the extent they address foreign spying we'll have to wait and see. >> randall, thank you very much. >>> the leaders of pakistan and afghanistan are meeting today, the meetings are taking on new urgency. the 92nd troops are year.awing from afghanistan reveal the location of a key taliban commander. the trilateral summit is meant to bring stability to that region. >>> two men linked to a deadly crash in tiananmen square. witnesses reported hearing an explosion before a car caught fire. chinese officials have yet to comment o
but we continue to hear white house spokesman jay clapper refuse to say how extensive it is. how extensive america's spy operations has continued. this new amendment to the patriot act which has been discussed will also include provisions that will establish a privacy advocate, someone who can talk about civil liberties with respect to america's spike program and first of all it will require the foreign intelligence court that top secret court to make public some of its findings. heretofore,...
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director of national intelligence james clapper saying the u.s. had spied on foreign leaders for years. he says those countries have returned the favor drawing a cinematic comparison. >> do you believe the allies have conducted or at anytime any type of espionage activity against the united states of america our intel against services or others? >> absolutely. it reminds me of casablanca. my god, there is gambling going on here? same kind of thing. >> on what ground? >> i'm shocked to find gambling is going on in here. >> your winnings, sir. >> thank you very much. everybody out. >> a great scene. without giving specifics, clapper suggested the overseas operations shouldn't have come as a surprise to the white house. meanwhile, nsa director keith alexander flatly denied reports that the u.s. had collected data from millions of phone calls in france and spain. he says the information was not taken from citizens but from europe's own foreign service agencies to be used in support of military operations. the "wall street journal" reports this morning
director of national intelligence james clapper saying the u.s. had spied on foreign leaders for years. he says those countries have returned the favor drawing a cinematic comparison. >> do you believe the allies have conducted or at anytime any type of espionage activity against the united states of america our intel against services or others? >> absolutely. it reminds me of casablanca. my god, there is gambling going on here? same kind of thing. >> on what ground? >>...
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>> graham pointed to comments of james clapper when he was asked? >> i don't feel i can make a guarantee to the american people and it's a difficult thing as each day goes by. >> is the country less safe now or is this james clapper trying to scare people to put pressure on republicans? >> i would point you to the testimony of the head of the dni. you know, what -- >> can you back that up? >> i am not the person charged with making that assessment, so i would -- >> does the commander in chief believe we are less safe? >> the commander in chief believes we should open the government and there are bad impacts. >> clapper went on to say as each day goes by the chance of a terror attack, the jeopardy increases which lead graham to say that scared the heck out of him. they are trying to put more pressure on congress. >> we will head back to the white house if any lawmakers come out and speak. >>> events are often defined by images and pictures of some members of the america's rapidly decreasing greatest generation. kept away from the memorial because of
>> graham pointed to comments of james clapper when he was asked? >> i don't feel i can make a guarantee to the american people and it's a difficult thing as each day goes by. >> is the country less safe now or is this james clapper trying to scare people to put pressure on republicans? >> i would point you to the testimony of the head of the dni. you know, what -- >> can you back that up? >> i am not the person charged with making that assessment, so i would...
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james clapper insisted that he was following orders on the bugging of leaders, to give the presidenthe best information possible on his foreign counterparts. >> as long as i have been in the intelligence business, 50 years, leadership intentions, in whatever form it's expressed is kind of a basic tenant of what we are to collect and analyse. >> on recent allegations that the united states was collecting millions of phone records in france and spain, the head of the nsa offered this defense. >> this is not information we collected on european citizens. it represents information that we and our nato allies have collected in defense of our country, and in support of military operations. >> for the last several month, documents that the whistleblower edward snowden leaked showed a dragnet beyond france and spain. it's failed to become a major issue in washington. the bugging of angela merkel's phone received attention because the strategic implications of being caught. the focus worries a visiting delegation of european parliament airians investigating the scale of the u.s. program. >> s
james clapper insisted that he was following orders on the bugging of leaders, to give the presidenthe best information possible on his foreign counterparts. >> as long as i have been in the intelligence business, 50 years, leadership intentions, in whatever form it's expressed is kind of a basic tenant of what we are to collect and analyse. >> on recent allegations that the united states was collecting millions of phone records in france and spain, the head of the nsa offered this...
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james clapper told a hearing that learning the intentions of foreign leaders is a top tenet of intelligence aims and the head of the nsa rejected the false media reports in france, spain, italy. the data on tens of miles of telephone calls per month have been gathered. bbc.com >> these are patriots that come to work every day saying how can we defend this country and protect our civil liberties and privacy. nothing that has been released has shown that we are trying to do something illegal or unprofessional. >> one of the first things i learned in intel school in 1963 is that this is the fundamental given in the intelligence business. leadership intentions, no matter what level, can the military leaders as well. alliesyou believe the have conducted any espionage activity against the united states? >> absolutely. >> not only the activities that the u.s. intelligence committee are under scrutiny, russia has denied reports -- has reports that they spied on delegates at the g 20 summit in st. petersburg. there were two newspapers in italy that had the suggestion of the discovery of these device
james clapper told a hearing that learning the intentions of foreign leaders is a top tenet of intelligence aims and the head of the nsa rejected the false media reports in france, spain, italy. the data on tens of miles of telephone calls per month have been gathered. bbc.com >> these are patriots that come to work every day saying how can we defend this country and protect our civil liberties and privacy. nothing that has been released has shown that we are trying to do something...
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techniques cannot happen unless they fold unless they just kind of give up the fight the people like james clapper and keith alexander are in deep trouble because they can't function they can't possibly fulfill what they see as their mission that is to snoop on everyone on the planet without the help of highly technical people who alas also have a conscience witness edward snowden you know bonnie you know we've we've heard before all this happened with snowden i think all of us with more on it to believe that our privacy was being respected by facebook google microsoft eccentric cetera and they when the whole story broke they were very timid about talking about their relationship with the n.s.a. and now they come out and say we want to protect your privacy why should we believe them now. well actually the whole thing is the public doesn't understand and most people i work in supercomputing when we start talking about how the data is collected people have a misconception about. the government listening to individual telephone calls you know they're doing data analytics and they're doing things like
techniques cannot happen unless they fold unless they just kind of give up the fight the people like james clapper and keith alexander are in deep trouble because they can't function they can't possibly fulfill what they see as their mission that is to snoop on everyone on the planet without the help of highly technical people who alas also have a conscience witness edward snowden you know bonnie you know we've we've heard before all this happened with snowden i think all of us with more on it...
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clapper is right that the president's not going to know the day-to-day goings on of nsa.so you believe that? let me just jump in. do you buy the fact the president said he did not know? >> absolutely not. >> yeah, yeah. >> nor do i believe diane feinstein saying the same thing. she's saying for ten years this was going on and i'm shocked and outraged and i didn't know. wait a minute. look at her position. that just means she's the least curious person along with the president that we have working in washington. i don't understand why they would go this route. >> so that said, do you think that the tapping of u.s. allies' personal cell phones of world leade leaders, is that fair game? is that necessary? >> well, it would be pure speculation for me to say whether it's necessary at any particular moment. >> just knowing what you've ever known. >> right. you know what, honestly, i understand the reason for the collection effort. i do worry that there are times when we're not looking at it from necessarily a particular operational perspective. what i mean by that is i understa
clapper is right that the president's not going to know the day-to-day goings on of nsa.so you believe that? let me just jump in. do you buy the fact the president said he did not know? >> absolutely not. >> yeah, yeah. >> nor do i believe diane feinstein saying the same thing. she's saying for ten years this was going on and i'm shocked and outraged and i didn't know. wait a minute. look at her position. that just means she's the least curious person along with the president...
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well the head of the national intelligence set up in our country james clapper is a self-confessed perjurer told the perp he told congress what he called later called clearly erroneous things under oath his assistant or the head of the n.s.a. right now and also head of cyber warfare keith alexander has a long record of not telling the truth he lied even before james rice in revealed the extent of n.s.a. surveillance now alexander pretended that there were fifty four terrorists cases that affected america that well for oil that war for trade because of n.s.a.'s collection turns out under oath he had to it well maybe one somebody said well possibly too well it may be that he was maybe ten it's nothing it's some somebody sending a couple thousand dollars to a terrorist group in somalia i think so their whole buncha lies here and they have to be lies because they're unconstitutional on their face and now i think people like patrick leahy and others are beginning to feel the heat from the people who don't want to be subjected to these lies if you're going to do this kind of thing you should leve
well the head of the national intelligence set up in our country james clapper is a self-confessed perjurer told the perp he told congress what he called later called clearly erroneous things under oath his assistant or the head of the n.s.a. right now and also head of cyber warfare keith alexander has a long record of not telling the truth he lied even before james rice in revealed the extent of n.s.a. surveillance now alexander pretended that there were fifty four terrorists cases that...
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techniques cannot happen unless they fold unless they just kind of give up the fight the people like james clapper and keith alexander are in deep trouble because they can't function they can't possibly fulfill what they see as their mission that is to snoop on everyone on the planet without the help of highly technical people who alas also have a conscience witness edward snowden you know bonnie you know we've we've heard before all this happened with snowden i think all of us with more on it to believe that our privacy was being respected by facebook google microsoft eccentrics cetera and they this whole story broke they were very timid about talking about their relationship with the n.s.a. and now they come out and say we want to protect your privacy why should we believe them now. well actually the whole thing is the public doesn't understand and most people i work in supercomputing and when we start talking about how the data is collected people have a misconception about. the government listening to individual telephone calls you know they're doing data analytics and they're doing things lik
techniques cannot happen unless they fold unless they just kind of give up the fight the people like james clapper and keith alexander are in deep trouble because they can't function they can't possibly fulfill what they see as their mission that is to snoop on everyone on the planet without the help of highly technical people who alas also have a conscience witness edward snowden you know bonnie you know we've we've heard before all this happened with snowden i think all of us with more on it...
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techniques cannot happen unless they fold unless they just have to give up the fight the people like james clapper and keith alexander are in deep trouble because they can't function they can't possibly fulfill what they see as their mission that is to snoop on everyone on the planet without the help of highly technical people who alas also have a conscience witness edward snowden you know bonnie you know we've we've heard it before all this happened with snowden i think all of us with more on it to believe that our privacy was being respected by facebook google microsoft eccentric cetera and they could this whole story broke they were very timid about talking about their relationship with the n.s.a. and now they come out and say we want to protect your privacy why should we believe them now. well actually the whole thing is the public doesn't understand and most people i work in supercomputing and we start talking about how the data is collected people have a misconception about. the government listening to individual telephone calls you know they're doing data analytics and they're doing things
techniques cannot happen unless they fold unless they just have to give up the fight the people like james clapper and keith alexander are in deep trouble because they can't function they can't possibly fulfill what they see as their mission that is to snoop on everyone on the planet without the help of highly technical people who alas also have a conscience witness edward snowden you know bonnie you know we've we've heard it before all this happened with snowden i think all of us with more on...
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constitution and consequences well the head of the national intelligence set up in our country came to clapper is a self-confessed purger told he told congress what he called later called clearly erroneous things under oath. his assistant or the head of the n.s.a. right now and also head of cyber warfare. keith alexander has a long record of not telling the truth he lied even before james rosen revealed the extent of n.s.a. surveillance now alexander pretended that there were fifty four terrorists cases that affected america that well for oil that we're fortunate because of n.s.a.'s collection turns out under oath he had to it well maybe one somebody said well possibly too well he was maybe ten it's nothing it's a some somebody sending a couple thousand dollars to a terrorist group in somalia i think so their whole buncha lies here and they have to be lies because they're unconstitutional on their face and now i think people like patrick leahy and others are beginning to feel the heat from the people who don't want to be subjected to these lies if you're going to do this kind of thing you shou
constitution and consequences well the head of the national intelligence set up in our country came to clapper is a self-confessed purger told he told congress what he called later called clearly erroneous things under oath. his assistant or the head of the n.s.a. right now and also head of cyber warfare. keith alexander has a long record of not telling the truth he lied even before james rosen revealed the extent of n.s.a. surveillance now alexander pretended that there were fifty four...