they try to dump the blame on edward snowden.he reality is, it is the leading media outlets that publish these documents and so the new york times editors who not only work at the paper that published a lot of these documents, they also have been defending's own for the last two years and they were the first establishment outlet to call for an amnesty to be given to snowden. i think "new york times" understands how odious and disgusting and how dangerous it is for the u.s. government to try to blame journalism and whistleblowers and transparency for their own failures and try and shift lame away from themselves -- blame away from themselves. the problem is, many journalists in the u.s., as we all know, ived to theluv iraq war does this, use them as mindless servants.t emile down and call on their hands and knees over to these officials and get whispered into their here what they're supposed to say and then they go and printed. there are all kinds of journalists and all sorts of media outlets in yahoo! news, , evenily beast, polit

we have the former cia director jim on cnn last week saying edward snowden has blood on his hands and no longer just be electrocuted but hanged from his neck until he was dead. that inflammatory language still goes on despite there is no evidence that the attack issues in paris used the internet to plan attacks or use any encryption safeguards for all of us that have been put in place and actually have been that actually many internet providers are talking about at least a little more seriously since edward snowden's revelation and no evidence this had anything to do with paris attacks and found through official reviews in the u.s. that the mass and drag net of 215 the metadata collection did not foil one attack and didn't have an effect only counter terrorism operations despite the repeated of both bush era officials and obama era officials and were not telling the truth and had nothing to do with or have no effect on counter terrorism. >> the latest from washington d.c. and thank you. staying in the u.s. the police officer is among three people killed during a shooting at a family p

edward snowden revealed more than telephone mete data collection.or example, the ability to search what a user does on the internet. >> what is going to shut down is a fraction of what the n.s.a. does. otherwise people will still expand mass surveillance around the world. since attacks in paris. they are talking of expanding civilians. >> edward snowden has been used as a scapegoat. even though there's no evidence that the attackers used the internet to exploit safeguards or planning attacks. still, action was taken, and there has been some reform. given the secrecy of the u.s.a., it may take another whistleblower for us to see what has changed >>> a suspect behind the shooting of a family planning clinic in colorado is due to appear in court. 57-year-old robert deer is being held without bail. a police officer and two other people were killed during a 5 hour standoff. the motive behind the incident is not known. >> pope francis arrived in the central african republic for the final stop of his tour of africa. communal violence force d 1 million from

edward snowden revealed more than telephone mete data collection. for example, the ability to search everything a user does on the internet. or a collection of 2 million text messages. >> what is going to shut down, according to former white house counterterrorism star is a fraction of what the n.s.a. does. otherwise people are probably expanding mass surveillance around the world. >>> and since the recent attacks in paris, some u.s. politicians are talking of expanding surveillance. >> edward snowden has been used as a scapegoat. even though there's no evidence that the attackers used the internet to exploit safeguards or planning attacks. given the secrecy of the u.s.a., it may take another whistleblower for us to see what has change said >>> now to talk to the co-director of the brennan center's programme. she is welcoming the roll back. >> i think it's a good first step, as we advocates like to say. the telephone mete data programme was a first edward snowden revelation and shocked the country. it related to the domestic collection with informat

the move comes 2 1/2 years after the controversial program was exposed by former contractor edward snowdenzeera is in washington d.c. >> reporter: the u.s. government no longer has the legal authority to hover up the metadata of american's telephone calls in the united states. the call duration, who they are calling, where they are calling from and so on. instead the telephone companies themselves will hold that data and under the usa freedom act the government will now request information on a case by case basis, supposedly there are now safeguards and may take another whistleblower to tell us if they are working but plenty of ways with which the government can hoover up and executive order 12333 with secrecy and freedom act expands ability of nsa to get information from cellular telephone and internet telephone and so on and of course the other revelations from edward snowden how the u.s. has the ability to investigate everything on the internet and hovers 200 million text messages a day around the world and that is not being reformed. in addition it has to be stressed for everyone not i

as edward snoa edward snowden proved, the obama administration didn't justify its actions by claiming that a president during war time has the right to act like a king and do whatever necessary to protect his people. instead the obama team relied on sophisticated legal arguments to continue bush-era policies with only slight changes. don't forget that obama is a lawyer while bush and cheney were ceos and the role of lawyers shaping national security policy helps explain a man that helped personal privacy protection took a turn that many are deeply troubled by. power wars, charlie savage, i asked him whether it's fair to say obama broke a campaign promise. >> as obama started to gofn, he wagovern,he was going to close gitmo, we know after edward snowden he kept a surveillance that was vast. in some ways he betrayed the promises of his campaign rhetoric that he was going to change the war on terrorism. his people though would push back against that. part of what i'm doing in this book is going behind the scenes to one of these legal dilemmas after another after another. what is happenin

also the former head of the nsa has said that edward snowden should be hanged and so on.blood on his hands but again we have to remember there is no evidence that the paris attackers used the internet in their planning for the attacks or did use any encryption or policy safeguards that are in place. so it is a bit of a red herring but those who are against any reform have pounced on the paris attacks. >> with the latest from washington d.c., thank you. more to come in the news hour including green peace delivers a message to world leaders as paris prepares for the coptic 21 climate talks plus president obama is heading to par 'tiss paris with a plan to drastically cut carbon emissions but not everyone back home is on board, i'm kristen in west virginia where there is strong opposition. >>> and also coming up, a rugby great jona is given a traditional send off in new zealand. ♪ ♪ reminder of the top stories on al jazeera, syrian opposition forces say they have gained ground against the government in aleppo province, al-qaeda affiliate al-nusra front helped in fighting, tur

campaign promise. >> as obama started to gofn, he wagovern,he was going to close e know after edward snowden he kept a surveillance that was vast. in some ways he betrayed the promises of his campaign rhetoric that he was going to change the war on terrorism. his people though would push back against that. part of what i'm doing in this book is going behind the scenes to one of these legal dilemmas after another after another. what is happening to this world that people are talking about. why it's important to pay attention to the lawyering and when we know about obama from that perspective. one of the things that arises this is an extremely lawyerly administration, putting constraints and recognizing source he of power, power that they're going to exercise. and in hindsight now we see something that was not as clear at the time during the bush years ago. that there were two different strands of criticism among the left and some on the right of what bush and dick cheney were doing after 9/11. there was a civil liberties critique and one of law. the civil liberties said the state shouldn't ha

and one of them, it is only about what happened under obama both before and after edward snowden. one tries to take everything we now know because of the snowden links and the government declassification as a result of these snowden links, of how surveillance developed in the 1970's up until 2009 and put it together in a coherent story. there has been the secret history of how technology and spying powers changed that we did not know and now it is noble. i open that historical chapter with a briefing that obama gave on february 4, 2009, right at that moment where i was thinking there was nothing left for me to do but was also starting to realize, what about these things they say they're going to keep? obama goes into the situation room to receive a briefing on all of the surveillance programs in a program that is keeping records of all american's domestic phone calls and e-mails that we don't know about until after -- he finds out about it at this briefing and the sort of security state, cia, nsa, security intelligence wants to you have here's what inherited. they breed them and ex

emily: tell me about your relationship with edward snowden. kim: i think he is a hero.ire him for his courage. he will be remembered in history as one of the great people of our time. emily: what is he up to now? kim: he is happy, he is fine. he is in russia. i think he is pleased that the debate has been triggered, based on the good things he has done. especially to americans. emily: when it comes to china, iran, islamic terrorists, the united states government, what are you most worried about when it comes to spying, hacking? kim: i am worried about the situation in ukraine. i think putin is someone i would be very careful with. i think that obama has done a good thing in negotiating with iran and trying to find a resolution to this nuclear standoff. emily: what about some of the other countries? like north korea and sony? should we be concerned about north korea? kim: well, you do not really believe that north korea hacked sony. i do not believe that for a minute. emily: who did, then? kim: well, some sophisticated group that has an interest in what hollywood is doin

specifically, he will talk about edward snowden and what that means for you in the 21st century. we also grew up about 200 yards away from each other in wales, he is been a good friend of mine for years. is my distinct personal pleasure and professional honor stontroduce dr. kristan ddard. [applause] stoddard: we're showing our age. it is harder on some than others. [laughter] thank you foro that wonderful introduction. i would like to thank theminster college for wonderful organization and the hosting of this event which has been extraordinarily good. it is surprising, well, a little surprising, that edward snowden is being mentioned so frequently in the course of these last few days. it is of course a matter of record that he was the main whistleblower of what are known which prison revelations have been a source of much speculation, and general thoughtfulness by both of the united states and some partner nations engaged in the program. this includes the united kingdom, but many others. right. so, let's look at the gentleman himself. i will say, before i start, we have some det

bill, i want to go with you on this, the nsa, edward snowden, we know the story.reaction that we left america and the world vulnerable now? >> i think the world is more vulnerable but i don't think it is solely because of edward snowden. what we're doing right now with this end encryption is the bain of intelligence that can keep this country safe. that's a given fact. we criticize nsa for the data mining and metadata retention, that's keeping facts in the warehouse in an inert condition. can people's privacy be violated by intrusion into these? absolutely they can. but there's a lot of checks and balances for taking care of that too from congress, both the senate and the house, from judges and what not, to take care of that. trying to take that out of the hands of nsa is like taking a police officer and one guy violates his trust with his gun, so we disarm all of law enforcement. that's what we're looking at here and doesn't make sense. charles: daniel, here's the thing, this week, the paris authorities, they had 79 3 raids, 182 in fact last night. they detained

anything it wants of your data and you are not constitutionally protected and as we learned from edward snowdenotecting citizens data from the national security agency or helping the national security agency hover up that data. >> with the analysis from washington d.c. and thank you. family members of the syrian boy whose drowning off the coast of turkey triggered an out cry will be resettled in canada. the three-year-old and the canadian government approved application to bring in her family and original application was rejected which led to the family's ill fated attempt to cross from turkey to greece. and plans to accept 25,000 refugees but says it will take longer to bring them in than originally had been planned. police in macedonia have fired tear gas and stun grenades at refugees demanding passage through the country to western europe. scuffles broke out on saturday and police were pelted with rocks and comes as macedonia authoritys began building a metal fence along the border with greece. macedonia is letting refugees from syria, afghanistan and iraq through but is stopping other group

it was edward snowden who leaked details about the government's phone data collection program which alloweded nsa to track information about americans' phone calls to try to ferret out any terrorist connections. now the law requires the nsa to get a court order and then go to the phone companies to get those types of details. the office of the director of national intelligence put out a statement on friday saying, this change in the law will help make the nsa's efforts, quote, appropriately focused and targeted. the statement went on to say, the collection of data, quote, is limited to information that telephone service providers have historically used for their internal bilge and operational needs. moreover, the government will report annually to the government and the public. the total number of orders issued under this short r authority and the number of targets such order. some republicans are already voicing concern that the u.s. needs bulk phone beta collection to prevent terror attacks and the new procedures may not provide critical information in time. >> i don't think it's too troubl

edward snowden revealed that.rlie: you look at national security and do you believe this administration? you have said the attitude of the obama administration and the stance on leaks is disturbing. dean: yes. they prosecute and they investigated one of our best reporters. it is disturbing. charlie: more so than the bush administration? dean: you know, here is why i'm not willing to go there, the whole technology and the ability every day, every year, it started with bush and continued through the obama administration. more foreign policy and national security is conducted in secret than ever before and it is one of the great stories of our time. it continues today and is probably accelerated because of the availability of drones. when that happens, governments inherently become secret and prosecute leaks more. i don't know if that means the obama administration does it more because we conduct more form policy in secret every year. charlie: my last easy question. you won't do investigative reports on the new york

and of course the other revelation from edward snowden how the u.s. to investigate everything we do on the internet. how it hoovers up texts every day. that all isn't being reformed. anybody it has to be stressed for everyone not in the united states, none of this makes any difference. the nsa feels you are fair game. it's up to your government to protect you as far as it's concerned. it can look at whatever you are doing. any communications you make, but as edward snowden did show, many governments are not protecting their citizens and helping the u.s. nation spy. >>> the family of the syrian boy whose drowning off the coast of turkey triggered an international outcry will be resettled in canada. the aunt of the three yearly alan says the canadian government has approved this think cog her organization application was rejected which led to the ill fated attempt to crossed mediterranean to the greece. >>> refugees demanding passage through to western europe. were hit with stun grenades. scuffles broke out on saturday and police were pented with rocks,

he also talked about edward snowden and the balance the u-s must strike between digital privacy and national security. 26 u-s governors say they're closing the door to syrian refugees... iowa being one of them. the effort runs counter-current to president obama's efforts to relocate 10-thousand syrian refugees... the governors say they aren't willing to put their own people at risk.... and the f-b-i says the u-s is unable to vet refugees to make sure they don't have ties to isis. but one central iowan disagrees... would you suspect a child to be a terrorist, would you suspect a father of a 4-5 kids and having his wife, you can tell, theyre like poor ghassan abood and his family resettled in the state after fleeing iraq in 2009. abood says syrian refugees should be given that same opportunity... and shouldn't have to pay the price for actions committed by terrorists. that's an opinion shared by the the largest refugee resettlement agency in the state. 'i think its just important to remember that refugees are people that are fleeing persecution and terror in other parts of the world and theyre

they found these encrypted apts and they knew to use encrypted communications because of the edward snowdenrevelations. what was it you said. >> about snowden? i said i thought he ought to be brought back to the united states and tried before a jury of his piers if convicted of treason which i think is the appropriate charge. i would give him the death sentence and i would prefer to see him hanged by the neck until he was dead rather than merely electrocuted. >> wow. >> i think the blood of a lot of these french young people is on his hands. >> but presidential candidate rand paul says the paris attacks absolutely do not justify morevt spying. when they stand up on television and say the tragedy in paris means you have to give up your liberty we need more phone surveillance. bull [bleep] [cheers] >> joining us with reaction in washington, d.c. senior magazine and in florida michael suleman a former nypd special voter. michael, you police the biggest city in america. in your opinion do we need more or less surveillance. >> i listen to rand paul and i'm scratching my head the man is a opt mon

. >> rose: supposed ward snowden had -- edward snowden had gotten on the phone to you? >> i would have met him anywhere. i would have done whatever he wanted. >> rose: because? because i think edward snowden's revelations were really important to an international debate and i wish they had been in the "new york times" first. >> rose: about how how far we're prepared to invade privacy in the interest or guise of national security? >> no matter what anyone thinks of how much surveillance a government should be able to do, president obama himself said, affidavit snowden revelations, that there wasn't a debate about it. there wasn't a debate. government made a giant decision with no debate and no discussion, and edward snowden's revelations revealed that. >> rose: when you look at national security, do you believe this administration -- i think you have said their attitude of the obama administration in its stance on leaks is "disturbing." >> yes, they investigate jim risen, one of our best reporters. it is disturbing. >> rose: more so than the bush administration? >> you k

edward snowden, chelsea manning and aaron alexis. ing had reams of classified documents and alexis killed dozens of people at the navy yard. >> aaron alexis was profoundly psychotic when he hunted employees in a u.s. navy office in 2013. he was armed with a shotgun and a clearance to handle military secrets. >> he was able to exploit his position of trust and gain access to building where he murdered his colleagues. 12 of his colleagues. others wounded. >> reporter: paul stockton is a former assistant secretary of defense who led an investigation in to the massacre. what was with it about his security clearance that jumped out at you right from the start? >> aaron alexis should have never been granted a security clearance. >> reporter: this is a draft the public has never seen of a separate federal investigation in to the allege ai lex sis case. in his security clearance application, alexis said he lived in seattle but worked in manhattan. no one asked about that. alexis told the investigator that a felony arrest on his record for let

senator rand paul did for ten and a half hours, anger from the american people, or a byproduct of edward snowdenarly snowden. the fact that the way that he trickled out the ideas, in the revelations, just made it much moreyyhg sensationalist ying tht is. . >> we are going to be more likely to miss things we should have caught, and as soon as there's another attack everyone will sea this is an intelligence failure. with we choose to disarm ourselves a nation it's not the intelligence community's fault when he mills the signal. >> mike barrett, we appreciate your expertise this afternoon and your time. >> sure thing. >> we move on to pope francis who called for peace between christians and muslims while visiting africa. the leader of the catholic church delivered a message of forgiveness at the capital city's main mosque, saying religion can never justify vie violence. it was the pope's first vivid to an active conflict zone. armed christian militias have been patrolling outside, and despite the security risks, he traveled in an open-air popemobile. the pope is now back on his way home to the vati

edward snowden, chelsea manning and aaron alexis. snowden and manning had reams of classified documents and alexis killed dozens of people at the navy yard. >> aaron alexis was profoundly psychotic when he hunted employees in a u.s. navy office in 2013. he was armed with a shotgun and a clearance to handle military secrets. >> he was able to exploit his position of trust and gain access to building where he murdered his colleagues. 12 of his colleagues. others wounded. >> reporter: paul stockton is a former assistant secretary of defense who led an investigation in to the massacre. what was with it about his security clearance that jumped out at you right from the start? >> aaron alexis should have never been granted a security clearance. >> reporter: this is a draft the public has never seen of a separate federal investigation in to the alexis case. in his security clearance application, alexis said he lived in seattle but worked in manhattan. no one asked about that. alexis told the investigator that a felony arrest on his record f

emily: the documents revealed by edward snowden showed the c.i.a. and f.b.i.e been looking into these gaming networks. had they found this is really happening? what sort of progress have they made in terms of surveilling people via gaming? brian: reports indicate they have been planting people inside game rooms. that was the accusation. that they had people hiding amongst legitimate users trolling around like they do on various terrorist websites, looking to see who may be posting comments, where they may be sympathizing. that is how we stay ahead. in terms of if they are actively monitoring, i think it is fair to say they're looking at all forms of communication. in terms of what they're able to do in sony versus other modalities, i think it is undetermined. is making it harder is we have to get back to where we started. there were a few of them. it looks there were eight to 10. they were trying to evade detection. they worked with great operation dismal -- discipline and control. whichf they did use sony, reports indicate he did not, they probably used multi

particularly after edward snowden? >> reporter: certainly, we have lived in what we consider to be a new era in the united states, after the revelations that edward snowden laid out for us, and it's surprising, you would think that a country like france, whose principles are based on free speech and right to assembly, would be more restrictive about surveying their citizens than we are in the united states, but the opposite is true. and that's more so after new laws are passed in the summer,. >> despite the claims of government, the public made a final decision, and that's a radical change. >> reporter: backing away from mass surveillance, but france is going the other direction. in july, after the charlie "chae hebdo" attacks, they passed more laws than in years. the law earned obing jexs from the u.n., the u.s., and politicians in france. it's provisions are broad and powerful, reaching into almost every part of modern life. it's helpful to contrast the law's provisioning with the u.s. laws and what it does. the fren

bush and was kept secret until edward snowden leaked its existence in 2013. in june, president obama signed a reform measure that took away the agency's authority to collect the records. the usa freedom act gave the nsa 120 days to transition to more targeted surveillance methods. that period expires today. under the new law, the nsa must get a warrant or court order to collect phone data from companies. a des moines woman is recovering this morning after a house fire. officials say it happened friday around 3:00 p.m. firefighters found smoke pouring from the home and an elderly woman was unconscious inside. the woman was hospitalized and her condition is unknown. firefighters are still trying to determine what caused the blaze. now to an update. new conservation projects are moving forward in polk county. three years ago, voters approved the $50 million water and land legacy bond, which has supported 30 projects in parks and natural spaces. polk county conservation officials say the funding is even greater because they can also get support from other groups

speakers look at edwar edward snowden's revelations and how to better balance government surveillanced civil liberties. here's more. >> all right i think we'll go ahead and get started are we having a great first at the symposium? and tested. we've got some wonderful speakers begin with as this one with doctor dawn hewitt will continue this afternoon. it is my pleasure to welcome -- answers from the university of wales where he is a teacher and researcher in the department of international politics. in 2012 he was appointed -- and in 2014 he was made senior lecturer. is also deputy director of the state for intelligence and international security studies. he's a member of the project on nuclear issues run by the center for strategic and international studies out of washington, d.c. a fellow of higher education academy and a fellow of the royal historical society. he has spoken at a wide number of conferences nationally and internationally and for various forms of media including the bbc. he is the author and co-author of four books. really? overachiever. his current and future researc

tells a ciscs audience two things, terrorists were going to school on new technologies, and post edward snowden, collection efforts are restricted. the terrorists are getting the upper hand, getting better technologies and our hands are being tied behind our backs. those were not consonant messages. >>> the planned parenthood where a gunman kill one police officer and two civilians. he did talk about no more baby parts, it's unclear what his motive was, but do you think this will fire up the political debate about abortion and about gun control? >> on gun control, i do not. based on my reporting, there's no political capital within the congress, a republican congress, to move forward on gun control. in some swings states like pennsylvania, senator pat toomey, he's talked around background checks, but most of the republicans running next yearer not pushing for it. hard on it -- i don't see that changing, those the pitch and tone may change in light of thinks 'tacks. we sea senator cruz offer hi condolences to the victims. >> what about the democrats? do you see them changing their position? >> e

contractor edward snowden. the new law doesn't affect foreign intelligence or internet data collection. >> he was called a traitor, leading j political figures called for his murder. but edward snowden's actions in disclosing the breadth of the surveillance of its own people have brought an end to the bulk collection of american phone records. we know that the dragnet failed to disrupt even one terror plan and a court declared it unconstitutional. the n.s.a. isn't ending mass data collection. >> international calls are still going to be collected, but the other thing is that the n.s.a. still bulk collects internet communications and because so much of internet communications happen to go overseas, those continue to get pulled. >> dragnet surveillance of telephone metadata and anything else in the rest of the world will continue. only those in the u.s. have some protection as far as washington is concerned, everyone else is fair game. they are often cooperating with the u.s. >> what is going to shut down accordi

so the edward snowden issue, it gives us data to ask ourselves about our domestic policies. it tells us part of the story about the larger strategy. i encourage people to get involved. host: glenn from florida. go ahead. caller: hello, professor. i like to preface this by saying that my daughter is a gator. we are very proud of her. i continue to find it more difficult to stay off the grid. wouldn old timer and i rather keep my life simple and live my life. and if you can't be the best at something then that means staying on top of all of the progress in technology, then you should go the other way. it bestld try to avoid you can. to staycoming so hard off the grid without being -- still living in society but keeping your life simple so you are not constantly under attack. where is the balance? do we stand a chance at keeping it simple? and living a simple life? because it feels like we are getting pushed, pushed, pushed. it is becoming more difficult to just live. guest: a great question and .gain, go gators i'm glad to hear that your daughter is part of the excellent colle

." >> pelley: the fugitive edward snowden, convicted spy chelsea manning, and mass murderer aaron alexishing in common-- u.s. government security clearances, which they turned into weapons. clearances to handle classified information are granted after an investigation into the applicant's background. but you are about to see internal reports and interviews that reveal clearances granted after critical facts were overlooked. some believe that snowden and manning were right to expose what they saw as government abuses, like the n.s.a.'s domestic surveillance program, but few believe that all of america's secrets should be at risk to spies, criminals, or the mentally ill. that has happened because of short cuts in a system that has placed american security into dangerous hands. aaron alexis was profoundly psychotic when he hunted employees in a u.s. navy office in 2013. he was armed with a shotgun and a clearance to handle military secrets. >> paul stockton: he was able to exploit his position of trust and gain access to a building, where he murdered his colleagues, 12 of his colleagues; ot