fresh revelations from that rule of us intelligence whistleblower edwards snowdon. this time the guardian newspaper revealing operation dish fire of the national security agency's controlling of text messages. indiscriminately it seems so barack obama at the justice ministry announcing reforms and mentioning edwards known by name. sellers services will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments the post orders citizens around the world. in the same way that the intelligence services of every other nation ducks. we will not apologize simply because our services may be more active my heads of state and government with whom we work closely and on whose cooperation we depend. should feel confident that we are treating them as real car imaging is the boredom do just that. sydney uni also securing the city you've written books on on. in two thousand and one in the attacks on two towers the keep america safe in the face of extremists and radicals. um has your opinion of edward's snowdon. changed over the past couple of months. oh but i think. well i

. >>> edward snowdon said that allegations that he is a russian spy is absurd. he said clearly a he acted alone without assistance much less a government, and this spy push is absurd. snowdon was given temporary asylum in russia. >>> thousands of anti-abortion protesters gather in washington for the march for life. that march is held each year to protest the supreme court decision of roe v. wade. the rally at the mall will be followed by a march at capitol hill. >>> a second chemical found its way in the water supply of the elk river. now the virginia department of environmental protection has ordered the? responsible for that leak to state all the chemicals released. >> a chemical that leaked from this tank farm at freedom industries into the elk river which supplies drinking water for some 300,000 residents in nine counties. drinking, bathing and even. touching the water was banned for days. now the order is lifted. now there is news that a second chemical was in the water. this one an industrial solvent used in a wide range of products. 300 gallons of the che

according to documents provided to german paper dish people from edward snowdon the nsa uses a combination of software and high tech spy hardware like this trend seaver. the name cotton of one embedded in a usb plug to wirelessly transmit data back and forth between a receiving station like this one. codename nightstand which can be miles away from the target computer this allows the nsa to target secure computers not connected to the internet once the items are cleverly put in place. the computers can then be monitored or use to launch a cyber attack the nsa refuses to comment on the program but in a statement to cctv road. emma says activities are focused and specifically deployed against and only against valid foreign intelligence targets in response to intelligence requirements and there are no indication the nsa uses the program to target computers inside the united states according to the york times the program code named quantum has infiltrated of two hundred thousand computers around the world targeting military trade government and even criminal networks in countries like mexico r

. >>> the nation's top official wants edward snowdon to return the rest of the documents he took before fleeing the country. james clapper said that snowdon has caused profound damage. snowesnowdon took thousands of documents. >>> the new program bill is a compromise since republican voted to trim $40 billion from the program. the bill removes $5 billion in so-called direct payments to farmers whether they plant a crop or not. food stamps help nearly 50 million americans. the president vowed to reject any bill cutting the program, but this compromise is expected to pass through the senate and become law after next week. >>> ukraine's parliament has voted to try to end two months of mass protests. demonstrators will be cleared of any crime if they clear public areas within the next 15 days. thousands have taken the streets of kiev calling for a change in government. and bring us the latest on this law. >> this isn't the deal that the opposition wanted. they get to keep the demonstration o on the square behind me. until they clear buildings, protesters will remain in jail. the opposition

he said reforms are needed after confidence was under mind by nsa leaker edward snowdon. hours ago hundreds of documents were release related to the scandal from the new jersey governor office. after some of his staffers ordered lanes closed on the george washington bridge. it was done apparently as a political pay back to th a mayo. >> reporter: so far the documents do not appear to undermine governor christie's position. he said he was not involved in the bridge scandal and did not know about his staff's action this book. but e-mails probing the scandal raised new questions about the lengthens the staff would have had to have gone to keep christie in the dark. in a september 13th e-mail patrick foyer warned a dozen agency officials the decision to shut down lanes was criminal. quote: he added i'm appalled by the lack of process, failure to inform customers in fort lee and most of all the dangers created to the public. one of the e-mails went to david samson. samson met with christie a week before kelly, the deputy chief of staff asked the agency to carry out the lane cl

committee members asked him about potential damage done by edward snowdon's leaks. he's some of what he had to say. >> do you think the recent problems we have seen about the snowden revelations and the way in which they have politicized by some people are actually undermining confidence in our security agencies? and if so, who is responsible or defending the agency, getting some perfective -- perspective for these suggestion discussions? in think first of all, response to snowden, i think what we have to do is make sure we're confident that the governance procedures for the intelligence services are robust, the intelligence security committee, intelligence commissioners, things happened under the law. i keep asking myself, do we have a god system in place? i think we have. in terms of has it dented public confidence in the work of the security services, i don't know the answer to that question. i haven't seen the opinion pling. but my sense is that the public reaction, as opposed to media reaction, is, look, we have intelligence, but it's a dangerous world and ther

to, and responding to cyber intrusion especially in the private sector and sadly the leaks by edward snowdone given some of our tool kit to bad cops. i think this is pernicious. so, in conclusion the threats today are different. they are on a smaller scale, but there are very serious that we have to keep focused on it. we need a narrative and a whole of government approach as much as are more than we need a kinetic approach in my view, but in less partisanship is a huge obstacle to of progress, and there's this committee in true homeland security committee fashion to pull together into the right things about cyber chair, homegrown terror, and helping us make the wise decisions about a u.s. international role. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, jane. it is great to see you again. let me just say that today we will be marking up our cyber security bill capa level. i have enjoyed a good relationship with the ranking member. as you said, spirited by ship the -- spirited bipartisanship. i think that it will be passed unanimously just as the border security bill was passed unanimously out of t

first the guardian's editorial board on wednesday made a case for the pardon of edwards started arguing. mr snowdon your journalist in the absence of meaningful reliable democratic oversight and giving people enough knowledge about the nature of modern intelligence gathering to allow an informed debate then on the other side of the atlantic on the same day on new years the new york times also praise started calling him the whistle blow or insane. when someone reveals the government officials have routinely in deliberately broken a law that person should not face life in prison at the hands of the same government. pres obama should tell the states to begin finding a way to end mr stephens vilification and give an incentive to return home the york times runs a bullet point several of the nsa violations as revealed by edward snowden including the hacking of data links to a duel and yahoo the efforts to undermine encryption and proof that the director of national intelligence james clap or lied to congress last march when he said the nsa was not collecting data on americans then out to iraq which is ju

edward snowden. national surity experts on snowdon, benghazi, the middle ♪ast, andhe obama for lou: we have a lot totional media and the obama foreign policy. joining i to do just that is former cia operative michael sawyer and fox newsiddle eastern terrori analyst. thank you for being here. let's turn right straight to it. the new york times report that says very simply, there is no volvement. your reaction. >> just being a mouthpiece for the administration. they want to make sure that hillary clinton as a chance said it elected. al qaeda owns eastern libya. there were involved in the attack. it was a very professional attack, and we are going back to this silly video that the administration first landed on. it is a ridiculous story. it is shameful for a professional news organization to be involved in this kind of clear deceits. lou: do you agree? is -- >> absolutely. actually, the ahor of this report has been criticized in egypt for months now for having sided ancontinue to side with the muslim brotherhood. more and fork to but more important, this was an attempt to shift the debate from what it

edward snowden. national security experts on snowdon, benghazi, the middle east, and the obama foreign policy. ♪ welcomeng? there's nothing like being your own boss! and my customers are really likingour flat rate shipping. fedex one rate. rely makes my life easier. maybe a promotion is in order. good news. i got a new title. and a raise? managementouldn't make that happen. [ male announcer ] introducing fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping th the reliability of fedex. ♪ lou: we have a lot to sort out and the national media and the obama foreign policy. joining is to do just that is former cia operative michael sawyer and fox news middle eastern terrorism analyst. thank you for being here. let's turn right straight to it. the new york times report that says very simply, there is no involvement. your reaction. >> just being a mouthpiece for the administration. they want to make sure that hillary clinton as a chance said it elected. al qaeda owns eastern libya. there were involved in the attack. it was a very professional attack, and we are going back to this silly video that the administration firs

president obama announced a new review of the nsa but insisted that edward snowden was no patriot. >> mr. snowdon has been charged with three felonies. he can come here and appear before the court with a lawyer and make his case. >> reporter: the embarrassments for the obama administration continue. in october a german newspaper reported that snowden documents appeared to indicate the listening of calls by angela merkel, and then yahoo and google and the ability to spy on tech powerhouses without their knowledge. at the end of the year snowden told the "washington post" that he had already won because his many leaks created a public debate. snowdon took a thousand pages of classified documents that he plans to keep feed together media to keep the pressure on the government going. >> earlier i spoke with journalist glen greenwald, the first to receive the trove of info from edward snowden. i asked him what he thought about president obama's reforms of the metadata program. >> there were some proposals in the speech, but in the face of scandal and public outrage over official actions to pretend to

edward snowden ended up in russia. the u.s. spy contractor may have received help from russia and some of the things that snowdon did was beyond his technical capabilities and it was suggested that russia held snowdon steal information. >>> it's been two weeks since chemical spill tainted the water supply in west virginia. robert, on top of the individual lawsuit being brought, i understand the city is now considering action. >> good morning, del, indeed. city council members have heard from many businesses here in charleston about the economic loss that they have taken over the past two weeks. also, charleston finance director estimated $120,000 loss in tax revenue is coming their way because of water outages. so city council was having an emergency session. there could be a vote as soon as tomorrow as to whether they file lawsuit against freedom industries. in the meantime just off the phone with county commissioner, he told us that they have distributed over 10 million bottles of water in the past week and they could not be more happy with the response from fema, the national guard and the federal government. but also peopl

. >>> edward snowden said allegations that he is a russian spy are absurd. mike rogers alleged that snowdon had help when he secured classified documents from the national security agency. snowed endeniesnowdon denied thn and said he worked alone. he remains under temporary asylum in russia. >>> a lot of families are upset with available schools and turning to homeschooling instead. some students strife, but some wind up getting lost in the system. >> rosetta ward works on spelling with her eight-year-old son joel. >> you see how the e "e" and the "i" are switched there? the parents set their own lesson plans in deciding how and what to teach. there are no regulations governing homeschooler. oklahoma is the one state where the right to homeschool is enshrined in the constitution. it's one of 25 states where there is little or no homeschooling oversight. in these states homeschoolers don't even have to show that education is taking place. ward is a member of the homeschool legal defense association, a conservative christian organization with a powerfully lobbying arm that has fought for and

edward snowden may have a new job. the university of glasgow in scotland has nominated the leaker for a position there. the student representative to university management. glasgow students say they wanted to support snowdonnd send a message againsmessage of for st. >>> today, calling for their son's release. andrew thomas has hour report. >> peter greste is an ward winning journalist. he is their son. >> he has a strong sense of social justice. the need to seek the truth and do whatever can be done to help those in need. >> as well as to let the world know, to get it out there so things can change. >> reporter: peter greste has worked since it's 19 90's and winning awards. they're raising awareness of peter's situation and calling passionately for the release of son. >> it's important for the whole family. it's a living nightmare at the moment. until he gets out i will continue. >> full sections of the australian meeting were at the conference with full radio and tv reviews afterwards. >> he has been held since the 29th of december without charge and some of the allegations that have been leveled at him are unimaginable. >> they have been able to speak to peter these times since his arrest. they're proud