intelligence agencies had made statements to both congress and the foreign intelligence surveillance court that they had significantly exaggerated the effectiveness of the bulk e-mail program when senator ow dale and i pressed them to back these staples up, they couldn't do it. the bulk e-mail records program was shut down that year. our experience with a the bulk e-mail records program showed us that the intelligence agencs'

that is the foreign intelligence surveillance court's way of saying that section 215 permits the collection of millions of americans' phone records on a daily ongoing basis. as a member of the senate intelligence committee, i've

well our petition is asking the supreme court to review the decision of the foreign intelligence surveillance court specifically to the decision regarding verizon telephone communications records so we are asking the supreme court to review the decision of the intelligence court because as a horizon customer those records affect us and in addition to millions of americans and because of the unique format of the u.s. surveillance law there's no other place we can go we have to go direct to the supreme court to challenge what we allege is unlawful surveillance and months talk about the main argument of your petition sure well our petition and again to clarify we have a mandamus petition with the supreme court and that petition alleges that under the foreign intelligence law that it is unlawful for the foreign intelligence court to issue an order like it did to horizon that requires the disclosure of all call detail records are related to calls that company processes and as i understand it the reason that that is important is because you have to have an order to have one of these surveillance programs

manufacturers build in so-called back doors and it increases the term of judges on the foreign intelligence surveillance court from seven to ten years so does this bill stand a chance. well the man who introduced that piece of legislation says that it is not rocket science and he would know along with being a congressman he's also a rocket scientist new jersey representative rush holt joined me earlier today to discuss his proposed bill and i started off by asking him why he specifically wants to eliminate the fi sungmin act of two thousand and eight the science amendment was something that was passed in two thousand and eighty to make legal the illegal activities that were already under way in the intelligence community and i think it has also been used as the basis for the the n.s.a. and the intelligence community to continue to do things that are out of bounds and so. i think they're probably fact i'm sure there are some changes that need to be made to the original size as well but this would repeal the patriot act which has been the source of a number of problems excesses. in law enforcement and intellige

i did want to bring up is that the bill proposes extending terms of judges on the foreign intelligence surveillance courtas i had mentioned and we have seen one article after another commenting on how laughable this court is considering the fact that the fica court has never once turned down a government request so my question to you is why is it important to extend their terms and is this court a legitimate court. well i don't believe it's true that they have never turned down a request nevertheless it is a fair criticism that they are a rubber stamp court. and because they operate in secret and essentially make law as as as courts do by setting up a you know a series of decisions. it's it's really unfortunate that this happens in secret. and is essentially allowing the intelligence folks to do whatever it is they want. a longer term you know one of the objections that the court. members that the judges on this court. one of the problems that they point to is that this is such a complicated material and so technically complicated that unless they've served on the court for a longer period of time they d

that we've been talking so much about and it increases the terms of judges on the foreign intelligence surveillance court from seven to ten years so does this bill stand a chance. well the man who introduced that piece of legislation says that it's not rocket scientists science and he would know why along with being a congressman he's also a rocket scientists rush holt joins me now for more. hi there mr hall because so much for joining me now if you're bill only repeals the feis amendments act of two thousand and eight versus all of why target this specific amendment well maybe it's going to be with you thanks for covering this story. the financial amendment was something that was passed in two thousand and eight to make it all the illegal activities that were already underway in the intelligence community and i think it has also been used as the basis for the the n.s.a. and the intelligence community to continue to do things that are out of bounds and so. i think they're probably fact i'm sure there are some changes that need to be made to the original face as well but this would repeal the patriot act

court has renewed an order forcing american phone company verizon to hand over data to u.s. intelligence services. the foreign intelligence surveillance court has to approve the request like this every three months. u.s. government says it needs the data for its anti-terror programs. massiveevelations of a u.s. spy program have caused international outrage. german chancellor angela merkel said she will push for a global deal to protect electronic data. u.s. president barack obama is calling on americans to do some soul-searching following the acquittal of george zimmerman. zimmerman, a white neighborhood guard, was declared not guilty in the shooting death of trayvon martin, a black teenager. it was a highly controversial case that sparked a fresh debate over race relations in the u.s. friday, obama gave in an usually personal speech at a press conference in washington where he told of his own experiences as an african american and said the slain teenager could have been him. 35 years ago. are very few african americans who have not had experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her brea

calls so we're saying that the supreme court needs to vacate that order from the foreign intelligence surveillance court and prevent. them from issuing any future orders as the foreign intelligence surveillance court which is not transparent we don't know where they meet we don't know who's on the court any of that have they actually started deciding fourth amendment constitutional issues and we're not sure what they're deciding because we don't get to see their opinions which is as you said a product there of them not being a very transparent organization what we're challenging those specifically is that under the law that the two fifteen orders are. promulgated under our past under the law this is the dot contemplate this type of data collection so the bias the court and the n.s.a. and asking for in the files the court and authorizing this type of surveillance is not necessarily unconstitutional although we would argue that it's well but it is definitely unlawful and it is not saying ssion by the laws passed by congress a lawyer for epic so that the this is section two fifteen the patriot act gives it

the documents would also include information about foreign intelligence surveillance court. >>> the leadegotiator is back from vacation and for the very first time in more than a week, bart leaders and union workers were able to hammer out a compromise before sunday night's deadline. kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran tells us the latest salary proposal from each sideshows they are still far apart, though. >> reporter: bart and the unions walked back into the caltrans district 4 building to start another round of talks. leo ruiz couldn't talk. >> we have five days left. >> reporter: the current contract offer was given to the union addressing sticking points including 8% raise over four years. >> we took out all the qualifications on some markers what's the economy like, ridership. we took it out, so no matter what they are getting an 8% raise on top of the 1% in july. >> reporter: bart countered with 2 1.5% over three years. the state employees is 4.5 over three years for their approved state contract. bart says if they meet the union's demands they would have to increase fares to riders by

justice department to declassify court opinions in this instance, court opinions operating under the foreign intelligence surveillance or fisa, the foreign intelligence surveillance court, that measure probably won't work but it was worth drafting juut to see this odd pairing of senators lee and franken. don't yothink? president obama. well, here he is. looky there. look the the difference between setor obama and 2007 and preside obama in 2013. you think this job doesn't carry with it a little weight and burden? well, then senate candidate barack obama accused the bush administration back then of putting forward a, quote, false choice between national security and our civil will liberties an was very fired up about it but i think it's a pretty safe bet that president obama now would not make the same argument because he is caught, is are we all, between a real choice between national security and civil liberties. and snowden? well, snowden right now is still very much a questionark. >> it is simply a disgrace. our veterans forced to wait month, even years for their benefiis. congressmajeff miller joins us tonight wit

previously served on the foreign intelligence surveillance court will also testify. the government acknowledged last week that there has been a number of compliance problems with governing the secret collection of americans' phone records. president obama makes a rare visit to capitol hill today, to rally fellow democrats ahead of the congressional summer recess. the president is scheduled to meet with the house democratic caucus just after 10 a-m, followed by a sit-down with senate democrats about an hour later. both sessions are closed- door meetings, with no reporters allowed. obama is expected to discuss immigration, the economy and health care reform with his party's members of congress. >> in a matter of days anthony weiner has fallen from front runner of the new york city mayoral race to fourth. this comes after news that he had an inappropriate online relationship with a woman after he resigned from congress for that very reason. but despite sliding poll numbers and calls for him to drop out of the race, anthony weiner says he's not leaving. ed payne has the

white papers on the programs as well as previously undisclosed information about the foreign intelligence surveillance court. it's all part of a deliberate effort to declassify additional information in the wake of the leaks by edward snowden. >>> with each day the pressure builds on both sides aand commuters in the bart contract talks. you check the calendar there's only five more days until a strike deadline that could leave commuters stranded again. kpix 5's ryan takeo shows us no deal today, the sides still far apart. ryan. >> reporter: allen, for the first time in a long time we are getting some concrete numbers. bart is offering an 8% raise for union workers. but those workers want a 20% raise. >>> reporter: >> i wanted to start off with a really simple number. >> reporter: bart made a big move in revealing the numbers that are keeping both sides apart. >> because i think it's very reflective of how much we've moved. >> reporter: on one side the district's latest proposal offers an 8% raise over 4 years asking workers to pay 5% into pensions and 10% of their healthcare premium costs. >> our very first

a senior federal judge who previously served on the foreign intelligence surveillance court will also. the government acknowledged last week that there has been a number of compliance problems with governing the secret collection of americans' phone records. >> the father of former u-s government contractor edward snowden says he's grateful to russia for protecting his son. lon snowden spoke to a russian television station and delivered a message to his son saying quote "your family is well and we love you." edward snowden has been stuck at the moscow airport while russia considers his request for temporary asylum. the u-s has charged snowden with disclosing secret government surveillance programs. >> a man accused of killing three women whose bodies were found wrapped in trash bags, faces arraignment in an ohio court today. michael madison is being held on a six-million dollar bond after being indicted on charges of kidnapping, aggravated murder, rape and related offenses. east cleveland police found one body july 19th when a caller reported a foul smell coming from a garage. two mor

that is the foreign intelligence surveillance court's way of saying that section 215 permits the collection of millions of americans' phone records on a daily ongoing basis. as a member of the senate intelligence committee, i've repeatedly expressed concern that the fisa court's secret interpretation of this provision of the patriot act is at odds with the plain meaning of the law. this secrecy has prevented americans from understanding how this law is being implemented in their name, and in my view and in the view of many americans, this large-scale collection of information by the government has very significant privacy implications for all of us. what do i mean by that? well, information about our phone calls or as it's known metadata may sound pretty simple and innocuous, but i believe that when law-abiding americans call up their friends, family, doctors, religious leaders or anyone else, the information on whom they call, when they call and where they call is from private information and should be subject to strong privacy protections. now, i've heard it said that the bulk phone recor

now, i would like to turn next to this secret court, foreign intelligence surveillance court, the one that virtually nobody knew about a couple of months ago and now people ask me about. when the court was created as part of the 1978 loss, this work was pretty routine. it was assigned to review government applications for wiretaps and decide whether the government was able to show probable cause. for all you lawyers, it sounds like a garden variety function of district courts and district court judges across the country. in fact, their role was so much like a district court that the judges to make up the court are actually current federal district court judges. after september 11th the congress, this gave the government broad new surveillance power. his new powers did not resemble anything in either the criminal law enforcement world war the original law. the court got the job of interpreting these new unparalleled authorities of the patriot act and the amendment. it was their decision to issue binding secret rulings that entered the laws of the constitution in the startling ways that

theorder was issued by foreign intelligence surveillance court to a subsidiary of verizon in april.our response to that? edward snowden already made the order public. this is absurd. ofs is like our release guantanamo bay documents. they have already been made public. now the administration is going to waive some magical pixie dust to remove the contaminant of it formally being classified by the administration. here we have an example of no disclosure before the public until there is unauthorized disclosure. if i am incorrect -- >> it is. it is the document. >> there is some magical process going on here where there are documents.nholy with clearance have placed done something, pixie dust on them. we have got to remove this religious national security extremism. it is a new religion in the united states and other countries. it is an absurd, ridiculous. >> angelina assange, thank you for being with us. founder -- julian assange, thank you for being with us. founder and editor in chief of wikileaks. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. for more, go to ou

include information on the so called white papers and undisclosed information about the foreign intelligence surveillance court. last night on ac 360 the father of accused leaker edward snowden, the father said his son loves his country. >> northeahe's not living a come life. i know my son. i know he loves this country. what he believed is this information, the american people needed to be aware of what their government was doing to them. spying upon them. >> edward snowden is still believed to be in that airport in moscow while he negotiates his asylum. >>> the fbi now has a new chief. >> on this vote the yays are 93. the nays are 1. two senators responded present. >> the senate confirmed that james comey to head the fbi. the 93 to 1 vote came as rand paul dropped his filibuster. he had held up the nomination. senator paul was the lone vote against president obama's choice to take over the fbi. senator paul will be joining me in the situation room later today. >>> here is what we're working on. explosions at a propane plant in florida. injured workers overnight. hear what the fire chief thinks may have caused

i mean he also appoints the judges who serve on the foreign intelligence surveillance court, with which is a very secret court which is dealing with some very sensitive matters concerning national security. and he is the head of the judicial branch much. its, he, he's trying very hard and has been to be sure that judges are paid the way he thinks they should be. >> that's been a failure. >> that has been a failure and i don't know it is really his fault. trying to get anything through congress these days is very, very difficult. so, i remember, i think, chief justice rehnquist say, using the famous phrase, that when you're chief justice at least within the court your first among equals and i think, i also remember, probably you remember this, we used to have lunch with chief justice rehnquist and one of the common, not complaints but comments about the court was, there are so many justices are writing separate opinions and can't you do anything about this to, you know, have the court speak with one voice. he just sat back and he kind of laughed. i think he made have even used the phrase

surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes. this is codify in title i of fisa defined as traditional fisa. fisa established a special court, the foreign intelligence surveillance court to hear applications by the government to conduct electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes. traditional fisa surveillance involve acquiring the content of communications, in truth of implicating recognize privacy, and directed at individuals including american citizens, directly implicates the fourth amendment. to get traditional fisa quarter, the government must establish probable cause to believe the target of surveillance is the foreign power or agent of a foreign power, probable cause standard derived from standard used for wiretap criminal cases. if the target is the united states person he or she cannot be the chairman to be up for an power based on activity protected by the first amendment. you cannot be the subject of surveillance merely because of what you believe or think. marco rubio moment. by law views of information collected under traditional fisa must be subjected minimization procedures and that is a concep

i would like to turn next to the secret court, the foreign intelligence surveillance court, the one that virtually no one knew about a couple of months ago and now people ask me about it at the barbershop. was created as part of the 1978 fisa law. its work was pre-routine. it was designed to review government applications for wiretapping and decide whether the government was able to show probable cause. , itall of you lawyers sounds like a garden-variety function of district courts and district court judges across the country. in fact, their role was so much like a district court, that the judges -- that the judges who make up the fisa court are current federal district court judges. congress passed the patriot act and the fisa amendment act and this gave the government broad new surveillance power. these new powers to not resemble anything in either criminal law enforcement or the original fisa law. the fisa court got the job interpreting these new unparalleled authorities of the patriot act and fisa amendments act. it was their decision to issue binding secret rulings that interbrand t

the electronic privacy information center say only the justices can overrule the foreign intelligence surveillance courtversees the surveillance programs. the white house now says that the united states strongly condemns the violence in egypt. but as the crisis there take as turn for the very much worse, the white house also says for now it will not cut off aid to egypt this after records indicate more than 50 people died today during fighting between former supporters of the president and the military it was the deadliest confrontation since egypt's generals removed mohammed morsi from power last week. the military has installed an interim president but has not indicated when there will be new elections. though there is some indication that there will be parliament tear elections in about six months. egypt borders israel and libya and is our most important arab ally. the white house today said the u.s. is reviewing whether morsi's removal was by its standards a military coup. and the decision could effect the more than $1 billion in military aid that we give egypt each year. "the fox report's" correspo

a retired federal judge who served on the foreign intelligence surveillance court that approves governmentsurveillance is calling for reform of the courts duties. the fisa court is come under increased scrutiny in the aftermath of edward snowden's disclosures for essentially crafting a secret, separate body of law that abets wholesale spying. the new york times reported the fisa court has become a parallel supreme court on issuing over a dozen classified rulings that allow the government to seize mass bone records and internet data. the wall street journal reports in a series of orders dating back to the mid-2000, the fisa court, or f ise, endorsed an expansion of the word relevant to mean an entire database of records on millions of people. on tuesday, former member of the fisa court broke ranks to say the secretive judicial body should be stopped from settling matters of policy. speaking at a public hearing, former d.c. circuit judge james robertson said -- the obama administration is proceeding with military aid to egypt one week after the ouster president mohammed morsi. reuters report

, the key point we've raised in our complaint to the supreme court is that there was no legal basis for the foreign intelligence surveillance cores to require verizon to provide all the call detail records on all of its customers on an ongoing basis. we simply don't believe that congress gief the court that authority. if we are correct on this point, i think we are, then that order has to be vacated. the program at least that aspect of the program has to be suspended. >> it's a particularly interesting issue for the supreme court. because this past term the court considered f.i.s.a. misuse when no one was able to present evidence as to the possibility that such misuse had occurred. without that evidence, the court ruled narrowly 5-4 against the petitioners that the case could not go forward. we have something in our petition that did not exist in that case. that's the actual text of the order. the court has the opportunity now to look at the order that was signed by that judge and make a determination. was it legal? if it wasn't legal, the program has to be suspended much. >> and the argument from the other side would be, w

host: some details about the fisa court, or the foreign intelligence surveillance court. our congressman from tennessee has mentioned it was established in the 1970s, and the main purpose was to review warrant applications. the u.s. chief justice of the all 11 court selects judges. they serve terms of no more than seven years. seeingst has proposed that make up shifted a bit so congress appoints some of those judges as well. on ouro to jolene independent line. caller: hi there good i am very nervous. -- hi there. i am very nervous. i have a concern that millions of americans are concerned about. i feel that both the congress and senate are turning a blind eye to it. i want to quote three different terms that i heard the congressman mention when we were talking about immigration. those words are checks and balances, accountability, and a system of laws. specifically relating to those phrases, i want to point out that what i believe so many people in this country, we are so terrified of immigration and the affordable care act, it is because we see more and more that we are l

. >>> the foreign intelligence surveillance court has renewed the authority the federal government toonitor domestic phone calls. that authority comes from the patriot act and has been renewed 90 days at a time for years now. the office of the director of national intelligence saying that it declassified and disclosed the action because of what it calls significant and continuing public interest in the program. translation? those nsa leaks by a man by the name of ed snowden. >>> still ahead the heat wave gets hotter for millions of americans. >>> first, the prayerful protest over the victims of the philadelphia abortion doctor. mom always got good nutrition to taste great. she was a picky eater. we now i'm her dietitian... ...anlast year, she wasn'tating so well. so i recommended boost complete nutritional drink to help her get the nutrition she was missing. and now she drinks it every day. well, it tastes great! [ male announcer ] boost drink has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to support strong bones, and 10 grams of protein to help maintain muscl

cole argued use of the material is severely restricted by the foreign intelligence surveillance court. but new york democrat jerrold nadler wasn't reassured. >> the fact that a secret court unaccountable to public knowledge of what it is doing- for practical purposes unaccountable to the supreme court may join you in misusing or abusing the statute is no comfort whatsoever. >> brown: the judiciary committee said it will soon take closed-door, classified testimony on the n.s.a. programs. now to a debate on snowden, the government's response to his actions, and the programs he revealed. daniel ellsberg was tried under the espionage act after leaking the so-called "pentagon papers"- - a classified report which he co-wrote as a military analyst that was critical of u.s. decision-making during the vietnam war. the case against him was ultimately dismissed in 1973. and michael mukasey was attorney general during the george w. bush administration. general during the george w. bush administration. >> lits get on the table first, the programs, michael mukasey, you have written that real damage

for example, i was able to get declassified a fisa court finding, foreign intelligence surveillance courtinding, that the fourth amendment had been violated in at least one instance. we also were able to eliminate antiwhistle-blower provisions from a piece of legislation. so it is cumbersome. i understand that. but we're still able, even with these difficult rules, to show we're standing up for our values and making sure people understand that liberty and security aren't mutually exclusive. >> you and some of your unlikely allies have now changed the debate and we saw this in the house vote where they almost overturned the surveillance programs by defunding them though. presumably the senate would have done differently and the president would have vetoed it. but it was a very significant change in atmosphere. what can you accomplish now? do you think can you get adversarial proceedings in front of the fisa court or different appointment procedure for the fisa judges? >> our side is gaining support every day. senators and house members, regardless of political philosophy, are seeing that t

in a ruling on monday, the foreign intelligence surveillance court, that's the fisa court, today the government it should allow yahoo! to give us some hint as to what date a demanded from the company. the actual order gives the government two weeks to set a time line to decide what information to release. let's be decisive. let's decide to turn to jackie deangelis. she's live at cnbc world headquarters. good morning, jackie. >> reporter: good morning, scott. we're watching the futures this morning. they're flat to down right now after stocks posted some modest gains on monday. but keep in mind that the dow, the s&p 500 index, they did close at another record high. the s&p enjoying its best eight-day winning streak since 2004. meantime, investors watching for data today on inflation, manufacturing, and housing, and this morning we got earnings from coca-cola, goldman sachs and johnson & johnson. the dow rising 20 points to close at 15,484 yesterday. the nasdaq adding 7 to 3,607. we'll see if we can keep the win streak continuing today. back to you, scott. >> jackie, thank you much. >>

foreign intelligence surveillance court ruled that information should be made public about a 2008 caseordered yahoo to turn over customer data. the government sought the information from yahoo under the national security agency's prism data- gathering program. details of the secret program were disclosed by former nsa contractor edward snowden, who has fled the country. >>james:mcdonald's has announced it is opening its first restaurant in vietnam the spending power of vietnam's 90 million people is proving attractive to western companies even as its economy struggles. starbucks opened its first cafe in vietnam earlier this year, joining subway, pizza hut and other foreign brands. mcdonald's said the first restaurant would be in ho chi minh city. >>anny:the food and drug administration has approved the first medical scan that can help diagnose attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children by measuring brain waves. the agency cleared the neba system to help confirm adhd for people ages 6 to 17. doctors can use the device to confirm an adhd diagnosis or to determine if more testin

announced that the foreign intelligence surveillance court had reauthorized its phone metadata collection program last wednesday a bipartisan attempt to defund that same that a data collection program failed by a slim margin in the u.s. house of representatives that although the n.s.a. still has the power to track store and analyze the electronic information of. virtually all americans edward snowden's revelations may have sparked a seismic shift in how democrats and republicans work together in washington for more on this i'm joined now by sam secs our chief political commentator and nathan white national spokesperson for restore the four gentlemen great to see you both. sam first on the political end of this we have just an amish amash excuse me and john conyers a a tea party republican and an old line old time progressive liberal classic liberal democrat coming together on the floor of the house of representatives and saying this is wrong this has to stop and jim sensenbrenner the guy who is the root of arguably the author of the patriot act although you know really goes back much befo

the bush administration announced that they would submit it to oversight from the foreign intelligence surveillance court. unfortunately, because the court's rulings are kept secret, most americans had no idea that the court was prepared to issue extraordinarily broad ruling permitting the massive surveillance that eventually made headlines last month. it is now a matter of public record that both the phone records program has been operating since 2007. it is not a coincidence that a handful of senators have been working since then to find ways to alert the public to what is actually going on. months and years went into trying to find ways to raise public awareness about secret surveillance authorities, and to do it within the confines of the classification rules. i and several colleagues made it our mission, our special cause to end the use of secret law. now, when the people in my home state hear those words, "secret law," some of them come up and say, ron, what are you talking about? how can the law be kept secret? when you guys pass laws back there, it is like a public deal. i am going to look this s

in my opening statement, i would like to make three related points about the foreign intelligence surveillance court. activitiess that the that this court regulates, the acquisition of foreign intelligence for national security purposes, was shortly outside of all judicial superstition -- supervision. fisa was passed in 1978. at the time, it was clear that the congress did not intend that it would cover electronic surveillance directed at non-us persons outside of the united states for foreign intelligence purposes. as we noted in the opening statement, because of technological change in the way international communications are carried, over time, more and more surveillance, foreign intelligence surveillance directed at non-us persons outside united states, more and more that began to fall within the technical definitions that required court approval, even though the it was not what congress had intended. in the amendments act, a worse set up the procedures of section 702, which today bd attorney -- which the deputy attorney general provided. properly viewed, 702 is not a derogation of the authoriti

but if you need americans' phone records then go to the fisa court, the foreign intelligence surveillance act court-- and get a warrant to generate access to those business records. if you look at section 259 of the patriot act, if you define it broadly, which emotion has done, you can collect people's medical records, financial records, credit card records-- you name it-- anything is on the table. that's one of the reasons the author of the patriot act has called for a throttling back of this section that allows for this metadata collection, bob. we don't need to do this to fight an effective war against terrorism. we're violating americans' privacy. it's time to change the way in which this law is applied. >> schieffer: do you have any evidence that the government has abused this notion? in other words, that they have gone in and gotten somebody's telephone records just-- just to have them or just to check it out or for political reasons or for some reason or another? or are you just saying this is what could happen? >> there's certainly-- the dynamic of what could happen-- bob, literal