and it's interesting, we know that this foreign intelligence surveillance court has done a better job than we thought. it is that they tried to be vigilant about this, and that the nsa and other agency apparently inadvertently went beyond what the congress gave them approval to do. i would go more upon the

but i also wanted to ask you about the foreign intelligence surveillance court. so little is known about how they function, what they do. >> right. >> yahoo! and facebook have now filed these suits. what happens next in fisc. is there a normal court trajectory where it goes through the lower court rs and could go to the supreme court? >> a bunch of things could happen. what happens is that the government -- there's a fisc review court. say yahoo! google, facebook and microsoft get a response they don't like. the fisca court says, you don't have any special permission. they can take it to the supreme court. and they can sue the government in district court. there are other methods. they could also just speak. they could just exercise their first amendment right or ask their users to complain. and they've done that before. >> but if they speak, they could land in jail? >> they could, they could. that would be a pretty big deal. and not where a lot of executives of public companies want to be. >> they don't want to be blamed for treason. >> that's the term that maris

related documents they were previously secret decisions of the foreign intelligence surveillance court however the information is finally going to be released today after a long running for your requests submitted by the a.c.l.u. and the electronic frontier foundation the civil liberties organizations had been seeking to learn just how the government has been interpreting one controversial provision of the patriot act that's thought to be responsible for justifying the n.s.a. spying of ordinary americans and as more details emerge over the government surveillance of user data technology companies are beginning to ask their efforts to publicly disclose information about what the government has coerce them to share yesterday yahoo and facebook each filed a lawsuit in the secret foreign intelligence surveillance court asking for permission to reveal the number and kinds of national security requests the companies have received you may remember that tech companies google and microsoft filed similar lawsuits back in june however this week both of those companies amended their petitions for

pieces of legislation being introduced to rein in the nsa and bring light to the foreign intelligence surveillance court. this week, all of those bills were fused together into one bill, the most comprehensive and most aggressive nsa reform bill introduced yet. the bill was unveiled wednesday by a bipartisan group of senators. it will restrict the nsa's ability to continue the mass collection of american xfone data under section 215 of the patriot act. it limits certain internet communications. and it closes the back door that allows analysts to search through americans data that may have been swept up into the databases. while it also reforms the court by putting in place a special constitutional advocate to act as an adversary against government requests for more information. today, nsa chief keith alexander was called to testify in front of the senate intelligence committee alongside the director of national intelligence, jaems maeses clapper, who defended his spying programs. >> all of us in the intelligence community are very much aware that the recent unauthorized disclosures have raised concerns

is the foreign intelligence surveillance court starting a new trend of transparency well it might be too early to tell but according to an opinion issued today by u.s. spy court judge dennis saylor more disclosures are now justified to explain his opinion the judge referenced the unauthorized disclosures in june by former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden and said that it has quote engendered considerable public interest and debate about section two fifteen section two fifteen is a provision of the patriot act that vastly expanded the government's power to spy on ordinary people through what was called a sensitive collection program this news comes just three days after the n.s.a. declassified eighteen hundred pages of documents that shed light on its bulk collection of american phone records that release was a result of a foil request from the a.c.l.u. and the electronic frontier foundation but now judge sailors' says that any opinions not already subject to litigation under the freedom of information act should be reviewed for declassification it's undetermined however when that inf

and bring light to the top secret foreign intelligence surveillance court this week all those bills were fused together into one bill the most comprehensive and most aggressive n.s.a. reform bill introduced yet a bill was unveiled wednesday by a bipartisan group of senators including ron wyden mark udall richard blumenthal and rand paul and we will restrict the n.s.a.'s ability to continue the mass collection of americans phone data under section two fifteen of the patriot act it also limits collection of certain internet communications under section seven zero two of the fires amendments act also it closes the backdoor that allows analysts at the n.s.a. to search through americans data that may have been swept up into the n.s.a. data bases the law also reforms the pfizer court by putting in place a special privacy advocate to act as an adversary against government requests for information. today and i say chief keith alexander was called to testify in front of the senate intelligence committee on side the director of national intelligence james clapper who defended once again his spying

related documents they were previously secret decisions of the foreign intelligence surveillance court however the information has finally been released after a long running freedom of information request submitted by both the a.c.l.u. and the electronic frontier foundation the documents indicate that the national security agency violated its own internal guidelines in tracking phone numbers it collects in bulk under its domestic surveillance program the documents also show that the n.s.a. presented a false information to the surveillance court about the violation in fact u.s. district court judge reggie walton who oversaw a u.s. spy court almost shut down the government's domestic surveillance program after he quote lost confidence in the ability of n.s.a. officials to operate it in the right way judge walton gave a blistering opinion in two thousand and nine over the officials who had been accessing domestic phone records for nearly three years without quote reasonable articulate suspicion that those people really even connected to terrorism later that same year our justice departmen

and it's interesting, we know that this foreign intelligence surveillance court has done a better jobn we thought. it is that they tried to be vigilant about this, and that the nsa and other agency apparently inadvertently went beyond what the congress gave them approval to do. i would go more upon the procedures. i think it would be a good thing for the american people have to a debate on this. we had to use big data, we had to protect privacy. i think it would be a good thing if there was a little more transparency about the decisions of this court and because they clearly have tried to do a good job and they were clearly disturbed when they found out that even though it may be intentionally that the government went beyond on a couple of occasions what they had authorized them to do. >> mo>>> a major world economy at the polls today, but the big areas of contention between the parties aren't syria or the economy. instead, the public is debating whether to dedicate a day of the week to vegetables. what in the world, indeed. geoff: i'm the kind of guy who doesn't like being sold to. t

we know that this foreign intelligence surveillance court has done a better job than we thought. we tried to be vigilant about this and that nsa and other agencies inadvertently went beyond what the court had authorized them to do. it's a good thing we know this. i would encourage more disclosure on the procedures, not details but procedures. i think it would be a good thing for the american people to have a debate on this. i suppose we have to wait for the smoke to clear over syria and other things that are being debated now. we have to use big data. we have to protect privacy. i think it would be a good thing if there was transparency about the decision of this court because they clearly have tried to do a good job and they were clearly disturbed when they found out that even though it may have been unintentional, the government went beyond on a couple occasions what they had authorized them to do. >> much more to come with bill clinton including why this ultimate democrat gives some credit to the gop. before we get to that, a major world economy is at the polls today but the b

surveillance that may have gone too far in the ' s after that attack. >>> good morning. it is a sensitive subject. even are the courts say it went too far. the foreign intelligence surveillance court is supposed to key an eye on the nsa. according to new documents released by the white house under court order, the nsa went far beyond the limits that the court set, looking into telephone numbers that were not considered suspicious by the courts. most of the numbers the nsa would track did not qualify as suspicious as defined about i the courts. of the 17,000 phone numbers, the nsa said it was examining, they had clearance to examine only 1800 of them. when releasing these documents, the head of intelligence, james clapper wrote, in june of this year, president obama directed me to declassify, make public as much information as possible. that is true up to a point. the documents were actually released because of a court order to release them. the president was following the court's demands. it was not his idea. other news this morning, apple shares are down more than 4% in pre-market trading. we talked about this yesterday. traders sell apple after a big announcem

mistakes were made >>> you have the national security agency, the n sachlt and the foreign intelligence surveillance court, supposed to keep an eye on the nsa. documents released by the white house show the nsa went far beyond the limits looking into telephone numbers that were not considered suspicious by the court. most of the numbers they tracked were not approved by the court. of the 17,000 phone numbers in the list, the nsa, in fact, only had clearance to examine 1800, about one-tenth of them. when releasing the documentings, t the head of intelligence, james clapper said, president obama directed me to have as much information as possible. the documents were actually released because of a court order to release them. the president was following court's demands. it wasn't his idea. >>> let's talk about wall street n a separate matter, rather, on wednesday, the federal ninth circuit court of appeals ruled google's accidental recording of people's wi-fi data can be considered wiretapping. they got the information through the streetcars recording wi-fi access points. they also vacuumed up wi-fi day tach

yahoo, google, microsoft and facebook have filed lawsuits against the foreign intelligence surveillance courtyahoo c-e-o marissa mayer says the internet company now has 800 million worldwide users. that's a 20-percent increase since she was lured away from google 15 months ago to steer a turnaround. the gain disclosed yesterday is the latest evidence of the progress yahoo is making under mayer's leadership. mayer says the figure for the 800 million yahoo users doesn't include the traffic the company has picked up from its tumblr acquisition earlier this year. >>erica: >>j.r.: taking a look at your ride around the bay a quick commune check shows good conditions for most of the bay area. the construction delays that we experienced on the nimitz freeway have now clear up in both directions northbound and southbound. >>james: more bart contract talks are set for today. this comes after bart's largest union blasted management for refusing to address their safety concerns. at a news conference. s-e- i-u showed off pictures. which they say, show overgrown brush and deceased trees hanging over the tr

edwin snowden, we now know about a secret government court that deals with electronic communication surveillance involving all of us. the foreign intelligencendles requests for surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes. that court authorized thensa collection of data from companies like verizon, google and facebook, information about phone calls, text messages and e-mails made by millions of americans. but the only people who can ask permission from the court for access to this kind of personal information are with the government. but that could change. congressman adam schiff is introducing a bill to allow non-government attorneys to become public interest advocates. good morning, congressman. >> good morning. >> tell us what this bill would do. >> what it would do is introduce an adversarial process within the court so that cases involving legal theories or constitutional issues could draw upon an independent voice that could speak on behalf of the public interest, the privacy interest of the american people. almost all courts that have a significant constitutional dimension as this one are adversarial in nature. the court hears from

documents from the foreign intelligence surveillance court show that even senior lawyers and officials weren't sure how the system worked. an ohio driver who made an online video confessing to causing a deadly wrong-way crash after drinking heavily--- is expected back in court ahead of a possible guilty plea. but a judge didn't allow matthew cordle to go ahead with a plea yesterday-- after she said his attorneys weren't following procedures for first appearances. wheatin a video posted last week, cordle admitted he killed a man from a columbus suburb. he faces up to eight years in prison after being charged with aggravated vehicular homicide. los angeles county has approved 100-thousand- dollars in rewards for people who helped authorities track down fired l-a policeman christopher dorner-- near the end of his killing rampage. the board of supervisors voted today to pay 80- thousand to karen and jim reynolds, who contacted authorities after dorner tied them up in their big bear cabin and stole their car. another 20-thousand will go to daniel mcgowan, who reported seeing dorner's burnin

government challenge the order according to a newly declassified opinion from the foreign intelligence surveillance courtacker barrel same-store sales rose 2.6%. the restaurant operator reported a profit of 34.3 million, down from 34.7 million year-over-year. cracker barrel warned that current profit will be lower than analyst estimates due to higher commodities costs of the that's latest from the fox business network, giving you the power to prosper. adam: so a merger brewing on wall street and this time it looks like it may be the exchanges themselves. fox business senior correspondent charlie gasparino is here with exclusive details what would be a blockbuster story. >> before we set oaf headlines and stories flying before i'm saying there are merger talks with new york stock exchange and nasdaq, there's not. there is lot of things going on in the exchange business. i've been talking people with both nasdaq and new york stock exchange and these are senior people, i'm asking right now is this thing, out of merging the stock business of the new york stock exchange and the nasdaq stock business, is that

yahoo, google, microsoft and facebook have filed lawsuits against the foreign intelligence surveillance court>james: state lawmakers are sending governor brown legislation that would expand california's prohibition against employers asking job candidates are employees for access to their social media accounts. the bill would that public employees to the list of those barred from asking potential employees for their facebook, twitter, or other passwords. it expands on the legislation that governor brown signed last year. >>darya: wal-mart has released this holiday season taught voice. about 1000 boys and girls aged 18 months to 10 years old spend a weekend last month plane with 52 is in choosing their favorites. the result is a top 20 list that includes a new robotic pet furby, a hugging elmo and a barbie dream house. wal-mart plans to promote the top 20 toys with dedicated shelf space and with prominent positions on its web site and in circulars. we'll be right back. ♪ (woman) this place has got really good chocolate shakes. (growls) (man) that's a good look for you. (woman) that was fun. (ma

we have the fisa courts, the foreign intelligence surveillance act courts, that they have to sign off on these programs. before you can dig into any of those records, in terms of reading content, for example, you have to have the authorization from fisa. i know everybody is concerned about it. i understand the concerns. the last thing i would want to recommend is, well, obama might abuse the nsa authority and therefore we ought to shut it down. last possible thing we ought to do. these are good folks, doing the best they can to safeguard the nation, and i like keith alexander covering my back [applause] >> well -- we can move on off of this, but i think again, if you look back and you talk about abuse, you guys were also scrupulously careful not to have the head of the irs in the white house. he may have been there once. we know the president had him in something like 72 times. and i think there is a real question about in a democracy, under threat, you have programs you put in place to defend the nation. then you end up with a commander in chief who seems not to care about defending

or or something like that and ultimately laws can be changed by courts but you have to remember that the foreign intelligence surveillance act was debated by congress in the open several years ago and so it's been on the books for some time and so now we're beginning to see exactly exactly what the law's capable of and so at this moment all they can do is either hope to change the law through litigation or or read legislation and eric misses a question that i have been asking all of my guests who come on to talk with me about the n.s.a. surveillance program and i will keep asking it until there is a realistic solution how can the public protect itself from the surveillance or can it. you can protect yourself to a certain point there are encryption solutions available and when properly implemented and that's a key phrase properly implemented there are ways when you can minimize or lessen your exposure to these two things technology there's no absolutes and a lot of the exception technologies have been compromised or there are ways through them or around them or be an encrypted data can be found or compromised in other way