mr. edwards, hi. i'm sorry about everything. it is very atypical.terms of the ending, in terms of how despondent he became and how he acted upon it. i think what most people are particularly concerned about is the process through which johnny received what is technically, i guess, medical care. he went to the student health probably harvard, faked his adhd symptoms or at least exaggerated them, in order to receive adderall. and other stimulant medications. it happens all the time. the other problem is, the procedure through which the diagnosis is made is really quite sloppy in many cases. if you read the deposition in the edwards case, because there are some eagle proceedings going on, the nurse practitioner involved in the diagnosis and care said one of the reasons she put johnny on stimulants is because he drank a lot of red bull, and that is always assigned that somebody needs more attention help. >> didn't the nurse who made the prescription for adderall note that the on his general inability to focus, he'd received two minor traffic violations,

very much known to the german public and i would suggest that the german politicians should welcome mr edward snowden maybe in the same way in germany but there is very little the german politicians are doing for this person we haled hold a press conference will be held at twelve hundred g.m.t. and we'll be covering it live on air and online for you as. accomplice in an elementary school in syria's homs province has reportedly killed five students and two of schools and perry's head this week at least a few civilians including women and children were slaughtered in the town of dry north of damascus was raided by radical islamists some reports put the number of those killed as high as two hundred. channel one that to talk to eyewitnesses of the bloodshed terror still fills the hearts of those who witnessed the militants entering the town about drugs they saw disoriented people running for their lives and they ran themselves they will never forget the despair in the eyes of those who were forced to stay behind we have no reliable way to communicate with the people trapped inside but officials a

very much known to the german public and i would suggest that the german politicians should welcome mr edward snowden maybe in the same way in germany but there is very little the german put it to chance are doing for this person. i say has some human rights groups have called me hellhole or called a prisoner of conscience do you think he was president because if there's a big word. conscience of whom i don't know that sort of cause he had been a member of a liberal democratic party and in russia i don't know that he is a human rights activist that he has been a human rights activist before so the question is difficult to answer what message do you think president putin was sending to the west by releasing and what are called skate now. well actually you know i think that the first message is to the russian people as well that the other guys have no influence on russian policy anymore since the last ten years and told the west it is a sign that russia is still open the for negotiations is still interested in good connections to the west and would do the european union as well as the united st

very much known to the german public and i would suggest that the german politicians should welcome mr edward snowden maybe in the same way in germany but there is very little the german put a difference are doing for this person. so it's been a roller coaster life for her cost you from one of russia's richest men to a high profile criminal now his bike in the lap of luxury flown on a private jet to berlin and accompanied and accommodative rather and a five star hotel that's now recall how he got to jail in the first place and back in february nine hundred ninety seven he became chairman and c.e.o. of the private corporation you cos which produced a fifth of russia's or oil or costa became one of the country's richest man about six and a half years later he was arrested on small charges around that same time linked to the privatization of state assets he was eventually found guilty in may two thousand and five and was given nine years in prison an appeal so a year knocked off that sentence in december two thousand and six there was a second case against the former tycoon who was charged with

international thanks for joining us today american activists are calling on the president mr barack obama pardon edward snowden who is still in russia on a temporary asylum u.s. authorities want him to stand trial for leaking details of the n.s.a. snooping well the plight of whistleblowers has been documented in a new film called media. shot by a crew of wiki leaks. lists and it costs light on that dangerous mission to seek any media outlet that will publish or broadcast their secrets and off as details. it's been described as a wiki leaks or road movie following the journey of a group of wiki leaks associates across central asia searching for media outlets to help publish secret diplomatic cables with making me do. something which which i would like to call an acid test and our us interest was one of the u.s. state department cables where you give these cables to certain. publications and see how they react to it most of the publications had difficulties in responding to publishing secrets that had to do with the united states with empire in our world johannes wall strong helped direct the movie altho

mr. president. way. christmas, by the >> merry christmas. >> when edward snowden began leaking the information, you claimed that you already reformed the surveillance programs. themaid, my team evaluated and expanded some of the oversight. you also said we may have to rebalance some of these issues. you said, you can complain about big brother and how this program runs amok. when you look at the details, then i think we struck the right balance. that was only six months ago. the panel is saying you know, even you are saying you know the right balance hasn't been made. are not fully read in on these programs but on the other where we were potentially listening in on the german leaders, brazilian leaders, and others that suggest there were abuses? number two, is it another example of what julie was getting at with this question of credibility with the american people, that just like on health care, you like your pen that you like your plan you can keep it. you said we have the right balance and six months later you said we do not. >> i think it is important to note that when it comes to the right balance on

mr. snow den myself what i would say is, edward, you say you are a patriot, you say you want to protect the privacy and civil liberties of americans, you say that you wanted americans to have a debate about this and make up their mind about what to do about this. if you really believe that, if you really believe that americans should be the judge of this program then you should also believe that the americans should be the judge of your behavior in this regard. so if you are the patriot that you say you are, you should come home and be judged. >> schieffer: mike morell, thank you very much. wish you the best of the season. thank you for joining us. we'll be back in one minute with our annual cbs news correspondents year-end round up. my customers can shop around-- see who does good work and compare costs. it doesn't usually work that way with health care. but with unitedhealthcare, i get information on quality rated doctors, treatment options and estimates for how much i'll pay. that helps me, and my guys, make better decisions. i don't like guesses with my business, and definitely not with

edward snowden. be interested to know mr chairman we would be happy to make you down to the committee and spend a couple of hours going through mounds of product that would allow a member to be as informed as a member we should as to be on sources and methods and all activities of the intelligence community under the national intelligence framework i would just say and i just think we need to be careful. about what i mean we do this and you don't you wish to use the classification and i think would be disingenuous mr chairman if you suggesting we have information if we don't have it so after that after what you saw there can we really buy the argument that these committees had enough knowledge all along to perform proper oversight of american spy agencies i don't think so snowden also had a message from the n.s.a. he said i'm not trying to bring down the n.s.a. i'm working to improve the n.s.a. i'm still working for the n.s.a. right now just they are the only ones who don't realize it now this is the statement that most likely caused keith alexander's and james clapper as heads to explode the whole i'm

of the government spying domestic and spying program that were revealed by edward snowden who is now a fugitive in russia. >> mr. snowden ought to be expelled and returned to the united states where he faces felony charges. >> there should be no notion in anyone's mind that this person is a traitor to the united states of america. >> the public reaction is a little more complicated. people particularly on the far right are deeply troubled by this big hand of government reaching into what they had thought -- many had thought perhaps were private matters. >> these n.s.a. programs have helped keep americans safe. they are in my view ample safeguards to protect the privacy of the american people. > most people said yeah, i thought they were doing somethng like. part of the public is relieved they're doing something like this. it's fine if they collect all this stuff. >> in the aftermath of 9/11 we were determined to thwart another terrorist attack and were willing to give the national security agency and other intelligence agencies wide latitude to do whatever they felt was necessary to keep us safe from another te

. >> the suspect has been identified as mario edward garnett. mr. garnett was a black male.e was 40 years of age. >> reporter: this morning, new details about the man believed to have robbed two banks, seen in these images. then killing a police officer. secret service confirming he was arrested in 2010 for threatening to kill president obama and previous u.s. presidents. authorities say in august 2010, he posted this message on the white house website. if you order a strike on iran, i'm going to come up there and blow your brains out on national tv. that earned him eight months in jail and three years suspension. later, after violating his supervised release, he had to wear a gps monitoring device for four months. a court order allowed his cell phone records to be reviewed. placing him in all three bank robbery locations. the crime spree started in atlanta, moving to tupelo, mississippi, and ending in phoenix, arizona, across the country, almost 1900 miles away. for "good morning america," reena ninan, abc news, new york. >>> and our thanks to reena. >>> we turn to the econ

mr. gelman, and you were just with edward snowden when you were in moscow. does he respond to the points that professor dershowitz just raised. chiefly he could have worked in the system rather than the route on which he traveled? >> well, i've been reporting on security for 21 years. i'm not familiar with any case of a national security whistle blower ever in my 20 years covering this stuff who was able to make an impact inside or who wasn't crushed by the system for bringing his complaints. he did, by the way, talk to four superiors. two in each of two divisions about his concerns. and 15 coworkers. and showed them specific programs on the screen and he said he thought they were unlawful. and that he thought the american people would react badly to the disclosure. which is a fairly brave thing to say when you're about to leak it yourself. so his view is that he brought it to people's attention inside. but he had watched previous whistle blowers carefully. he watched the case of tom drake who had disclosed just speaking about them some of the same programs

mr. president. i want to follow-up on that because -- merry christmas, by the way. >> merry christmas. >> when edward snowden first started leaking the information, you told the american people you already reformed them. my team evaluated them. we scrubbed them. we expanded some of the oversight. you also said we may have to he rebalance some. there may be changes. you concluded, you can complain about big brother and how this potential program run amuck, when you look at the actual details, i think we have struck the right balance. that was six months ago. the judge is saying no. your own panel is saying no. even your own panel. the changes have to be made. my question is, were you wrong then because you were not fully read in not just on these programs but on other programs, outside of the ones you just talked about, where we were potentially listening in on the german leaders, brazilian leaders, and others that suggest there were abuses, number one? and number two, if you weren't fully read in on these programs, is it enough for example, what julie was getting at, was this question of credibility

edwards: thank you mr. speaker and thank you to the gentleman from maryland, my friend and colleague for all of your work in getting us to this point. to my friend also chairman ryan for getting us to this point. and to all the conferees. i am in support of the bipartisan budget act. though i support the agreement, it isn't the bill i would have written. it's not the bill that i would have written to fully protect federal employees, today's employees and future employees. it's not the bill i would have written to protect 1.3 million americans who are about to lose their emergency unemployment insurance, 2 2,900 of them in maryland just at the holidays. it's not the bill that i would have written that would have reduced cost of living adjustments for our nation's military retirees. it's not the bill i would have written to protect the commuter tax credit. but you know what, i didn't write this legislation, mr. speaker, it's a compromise, it's a negotiation, it's not perfect but i support it. the agreement do

edward snowden. a federal judge ruled against grams.nitoring pro he wrote to a brazilian newspaper. >> we believe that mr. snowden ought to return to the united states, where he faces charges. program's paint and ability to cross-reference massive amounts of data now hangs in the balance. the most recent ruling almost assures it will be challenged in imperial court and lightly -- likely supreme court. the washington d.c. police chief say it can save lives. ? valid uses for this type of information. as long as it is managed well, i think it gives us safer. isthis renewed legal debate a huge development, and the judge's ruling goes against the 15 judges on the foreign intelligence surveillance court. they found no constitutional problems. they are at odds, and we will continue to see this argument play out. >> six american service members after aother injured black hawk helicopter crash in afghanistan. possible engine failure, the troops came under fire once on the ground. the pentagon is backing off that report, and military has not identified those killed or their branches of service. >> lawmakers are co

edward snowden. michael hayden, head of the security agency during 9/11. i'll ask mr. hayden what proposed changes in the nsa mean for americans in the future. plus, does edward >>> now to the spying debate in america. a special task force is recommending a sweeping overhaul on the national security, including how it got its way with americans. what does this mean for intelligence gathering? i'm joined by general michael hayden, former director of the national security agency and cia. thank you for joining me this morning. >> good morning. >> the president wants to change the way how a lot of spying goes on and the collection of data of americans. once you build a security state, to the extent it's built, how do you dismantle it? >> it's a good yes. it's a question i've been asking public audiences for two or three years. at what point do the things that were necessary at one time become less necessary, and who has the political coverage to step back some of the things that were quite appropriate for the situations of danger in which we found ourselves, but as we get be

mr. president. i want to follow up on that because -- merry christmas, by the way. >> merry christmas. >> when edward snowden first started leaking the information, you claimed to the american people that you were already reformed many of these surveillance programs. came to office, quote, my team valevaluated tell, we scrubbed m further and expanded some of the oversig oversight. you also said we may have to rebalance some, there may be changed. you concluded with, you can complain about big brother and how this potential program run amok. when you look at the details, then i think we've struck the right balance. that was only six months ago. now this judge is saying no. your own panel is saying no, you're saying no we haven't really struck the right balance perha perhaps. changes have to be made. my question is, were you wrong then because you were not full read in not just on these programs but on other programs outside of the ones you just talked about where we were potentially listening in on the german leaders, brazilian leaders? number two, if you were, is it another example of what judy was -

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edward snowden. michael hayden, head of the security agency during 9/11. i'll ask mr. hayden what proposed changes in the nsa mean for americans in the future. plus, does edward snowden know even more than the u.s. government thinks he knows? we'll talk about that coming up. avo: the volkswagen "sign then drive" sales event is back. which means it's never been easier to get a new 2014 jetta. it gets an impressive 34 highway mpg and comes with no charge scheduled maintenance. and right now you can drive one home for practically just your signature. sign. then drive. get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first month's payment on any new 2014 volkswagen. hurry, this offer ends january 2nd. visit vwdealer.com today like a squirrel stashes nuts, you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec® liquid gels. nothing starts working faster than zyrtec® at relieving your allergy symptoms for 24 hours. zyrtec®. love the air. if every u.s. home replaced one light bulb with a compact fluorescent bulb, the energy saved could light how many homes? 1 million? 2 m

echoes revelations by national security agency leaker edward snowden, whose allegedly criminal disclosures of government surveillance activities led mr. obama to appoint this intelligence review panel. it called for these changes: to end the collection of mass telephone records of millions of americans. stop government storage of bulk phone data-- that's phone numbers, locations of calls placed and received, and the time of calls. the panel said these data should be stored by the individual phone company or a private third party. if the government wants to search that bulk phone data, it should have a specific court order that finds it necessary to stop "international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities." the panel said its recommendations are designed to rebuild public trust and create clarity. president obama's not obligated to take all the panel recommendations but senior officials tell us, scott, the president will announce those he will implement in the middle of next month. overall, richard clark, a panel member and counterterrorism advisor to three former presidents summed up the panel's conclusion about surveilla

veteran michael allen and mr allen a couple of months ago president barack obama appointed a committee to look into the and i say controversial surveillance tactics revealed by edward snowden and. the task force is supposed to come up with its own set of her accommodations for what may be another swigging overhaul of u.s. intelligence operations given your experience do you think there is enough momentum for yet another transformation or is it all just political talk no i think that there are a lot of members of congress and a lot of people in washington who want to study more closely what the national security agency is doing and whether us privacy and civil liberties have been infringed upon since nine eleven on many of the activities that we discussed so the president's review group is apparently going to release its report today and congress which who has already been considering legislation all year i think will take a close look at the report and then we'll propose legislation next year from now just to let our viewers know we are recording this show on wednesday and the release of that report is indeed expected in a few hours time but some chunks of it have

edward snowden could get amnesty in exchange for stolen documents. >> our position has not changed on that matter at all. what i can tell you is that mr. den has been accused of leaking classified information and he faces nell knee charges here in the united states. >> edward snowden remains in russia on political asylum. >> the navigator program for the obamacare web site under scrutiny for a lack of training. republicans saying the navigators haven't undergone security checks. many are now worried america's private information is not safe. kelly wright is live in washington with the latest. kelly, good morning. >> good morning to you as well. it will be a problem. president obama will be meeting with executives from leading tech companies later today. he will be discussing with leaders from apple and google and other firms how they can address performance and capacity issues with healthcare.gov also how the government can improve efficiency and customer service. having said that some republican lawmakers are concerned about how secure the web site is. and may be exposing those to greater risk. >> the so-called navigators don't follow

edward bernstein was chief technical advisor to the u.s. delegation at the bretton woods conference. mrrnstein, what did the delegates who assembled here hope to accomplish at bretton woods? we had two different objectives. one was to get monetary stability without the rigidity of the gold standard. the other was to prevent a recurrence of the disorders -- deflation and the depression -- that followed the first world war. we hoped we could get through a reconstruction period where europe would once again be a great producer. we hoped that we could establish a world trading system in which all could share in prosperity. and we wanted stability. schoumacher: to ensure stability, the bretton woods agreements outlined a new system of international cooperation. the linchpin of the system was the american dollar and its convertibility to gold. europe was either occupied or had been conquered, and every country in europe needed resources -- it needed to restock, it needed food. and of course, it had to be reconstructed. we were the only country that had the real resources to spare for that. an

mr. stone, ed, please rise. please rise. >> it is now my honor to present nasa's distinguished public service medal to edward c.stone for a lifetime of extraordinary scientific achievement and outstanding leadership of space science missions, and for his exemplary sharing of the exciting results with the

mr. stone, ed, please rise. please rise. >> it is now my honor to present nasa's distinguished public service medal to edward c.stone for a lifetime of extraordinary scientific achievement and outstanding leadership of space science missions, and for his exemplary sharing of the exciting results with the public. ed. [ cheers and applause ] >> stephen: a grateful nation thanthanks you. >> thank you. >> stephen: ed stone, everybody. good night! good night,

mr. stone, ed, please rise. please rise. >> it is now my honor to present nasa's distinguished public service medal to edward c. stone for a lifetime of extraordinary scientific achievement and outstanding leadership of space science missions, and for his exemplary sharing of the exciting results with the public. ed. [ cheers and applause ] >> stephen: a grateful nation thanthanks you. >> thank you. >> stephen: ed stone, everybody. good night! good night, moon. captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> from comedy central ealz world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with jon stewart. >> welcome to "the daily show". thank you for join us tonight. my name is jon stewart. from the film p "dallas buyers club" this is a good movie you have to check it out. jared leto is here. unbelievable. listen to this, we're currently in what i feel like is the most wonderful time of the year. [laughter] why not? [laughter] festive trees go up, carolers break out in song. starbucks switches out the vat of pumpkin spice additives for the vat of peppermin

edwards. >> thank you mr. tremaine and mathematica in a straighter. i appreciate you being here and/or patients. we have heard described on the committee and the congress frankly questions about the epa reliance on faulty and secret science, questions about the epa transparency and accountability and i want to thank you for the transparency and accountability the epa has provided for the volumes of data correspondence that the committee has received and i'm just curious but sometimes they ask for information and sometimes documents that is evidence by questions here today. i'm a strong supporter of congressional authority that i really am concerned about whether we may be overstepping our authority in terms of what we are requiring of the agency. we are just one committee of hae many that's making these types of requests to the epa so i wonder if you can tommy how much time and energy is spent by your colleagues in responding to these volumes of requests? the. >> congresswoman, we know how important it is to be transparent, and we will do our best to

and then he was exceeded by edward viii, who gave up the throne for mrs. simpson.ost: what was the hardest part about doing this book? guest: the hardest part was getting myself down to doing it and getting on top of all of the material. what you do not see is all of the stuff that is underneath the surface. and it took me about four or five months actually to get organized to the point where he started writing. host: the cover of this book, we will show that on the screen, "the war that ended peace." who are the two men? guest: what is kaiser wilhelm ii , and the other one is a very young winston churchill, because he was in charge of the british navy. he was the lord of the a dmiralty at the time. host: when did you decide to have these two on the cover? guest: there was a lot of discussion because it was tricky. you have people that were recognizable. most people would recognize kaiser wilhelm ii, but they would not recognize many of the other figures. churchill. it was quite nice because it was two different generations. how many people recognize the churchill,

mr. president, what are you waiting for? >> joining me now is congresswoman, donna edwards of maryland.n studio with us here in the nation's capital. good to have you with us. boehner has taken out this ad, saying that the president has stalled the economy. and he can say what he wants. the numbers are what they are. 47 months of private-sector job growth, the market went over 16,000 today, record close. unemployment is going down. but now you have to trust him to do a deal on key issues that are polling very strong in this country, what the american people want. how are you going to get that done? >> i think the way we're going to get it done, the president is going to exercise the bully pulpit the way we need him to on minimum wage. on income inequality. on extending unemployment insurance, which we did not do when we left town, and the senate is closed too. and so i think the president has to really dig down in that bully pulpit, use it, talk to the american people, to force republicans toim could to the table on these issues. >> so you think that the president could play a major rol

johnson used to sit in a hideaway office kneecap to kneecap with edward dirksen, the minority leader, and dirksen would say to them, mr. president, i know a fine young man in my home state of illinois who i believe deserves a judgeship and johnson would say, we will look into that. the deal was cut. johnson is going to get dirksen to vote on something and dirksen was going to get the judgeship for his constituency. if this were the case now, they would screen ugly bargain, political corruption. but that's how politics works. that's how it worked in the past, you see. and so it's so much more difficult i think to operate in that way. there were leaks of course to the press. johnson hated the leaks. kennedy hated elites. roosevelt didn't like it, although johnson and roosevelt and kennedy, they would leak things to the press themselves in order -- ross once told me when johnson appointed him national security advisor, he called them up the night before the announcement was being made at midnight and said to him, why did you tel tell the press on te pointing you national security advisor? and he said mr. president, i did

mr. president. thank you. rick leggett, the head of the nasa task force on edward snowden told "60 minutes" it was, quote, worth having a conversation about granting edward snowden amnesty. under what circumstances would you consider, either a plea agreement or amnesty for edward snowden and what do you say for americans after possibly being alerted to the judge's decision, reading the panel recommendations, edward snowden set in motion something that was proper and just in this country about the surveillance and should not be considered by this government a criminal. >> i've got to be careful here, major, because mr. snowden is under indictment. he has been charged with crimes, and that is the province of the attorney general and ultimately a judge and a jury. so, i can't weigh in specifically on this case at this point. i'll try to see if i can get at the spirit of the question even if i can't talk about this specifically. i said before, and i believe that this is an important conversation we needed to have. i've also said before that the way in which these disclosures happened had been damaging to the united

mr. president. i want to follow up -- merry christmas by the way. when edwardowden first started leaking information, you claimed to the american people that you already formed the surveillance, that my team evaluated them and scrubbed them thoroughly and expanded the oversight. you also said we may have to rebalance some and there may be changes. you concluded with you can complain about big brother and how this is a potential program run amuck, when you look at the details then, i think we've struck the right balance. that was only six months ago. now the judge is saying your whole panel is saying, struck the right balance, that changes have to be made. my question, were you wrong then because you are not fully read in not just on these programs but other programs outside the ones you just talked about where we were potentially listening in on the german leaders and others that were suggesting there were abuses. if you weren't fully read, is it an another example of this question of credibility with the american people, just like on health care, you like your

this, because i think it's important to realize that the initial leak from edward snowden -- >> will come to that in a minute, mr. rusbridger. if you could just as dubbed the facts are me and please do put in context. these are factual questions the committee would like. you've got a lot of files, 50,000 files and published 1%. where are the other files? >> well, as i would've explained, this is an ongoing story that we are writing. if you think it's sensible that i talk to you about where the exact files are, i'm happy to write to you but i'm not sure that that is a really sensible thing to do, the existence of other files in different bits of the world. >> but there are other files under control in different parts of the world? >> there is one file which will join with "the new york times," which is obviously in new york. >> and the other files are under proper -- this is important in respect to the inquiry. obviously, the context, there is criticism that some of these files may not be under your control. they are all under control one way or the other? >> one of it as a would've explained, i think would be he

mr. garamendi: congresswoman edwards, thank you very much.own you for the almost four years that i've been here. the passion that you have for the american people is unmatched. and your willing tons stand for them -- your willingness to stand for them has been seen in many pieceses of legislation and votes and -- pieces of legislation and votes and on the floor of the house of representatives. i thank you for that. and how correct you are. we're going to leave here friday probably around noon, and the question, the question americans ought to ask us is, so, what have you done? for america? tell us what you have done, congress. for america. i'll tell what you we want to do. we want to put people back to work. this ought not be america. this is the inside of the hall where we had the 40 employers that were looking to hire a few people. the outside of the hall. that was 200 yards in 35-degree weather, people standing there an hour, some two hours, wanting to at least get a shot at a job. have we forgotten? have we forgotten about franklin delano

edwards: thank you, mr. speaker. and i probably will not use all of the five minutes, but i wanted to be here today, mr. speaker, to support h.r. 3547, the space launch liability indemnification extension act of which i am an original co-sponsor. i want to thank both our chairman, the chairman of our subcommittee, mr. palazzo, chairman smith, and of course our ranking democrat on the committee, ms. johnson. because we would not have been able to get to this point if we hadn't been able collectively across the aisle to work on a one-year extension that would be provided for in commercial space launch act amendments of 1988. that established the government private risk-sharing regime for third-party liability and should an accident, a launch accident occur, the effects that involve the public and property on the ground, in this indemnification provision, would cover such losses. ou know, it turns out that commercial space launch capacity in the industry is really at a critical point in our nation's development of our s

edward snowden. this is an hour and 20 minutes. >> can i call the committee to order? i welcome our witness to today's session, alan rusbridger, the editor of "the guardian." mr. rusbridger, you are giving evidence as part of the committee's inquiry into counterterrorism. thank you very much for coming here this afternoon. can i refer all those present to the register of members? can i ask other members to declare any special interests? >> thank you, chair. i have written to the guardian on this issue. >> thank you. i should say that we are all "guardian" readers, some more avidly than others. we will declare our interests. i did read it this morning. facts,bridger, just some and members of the committee will come and question you on a number of issues. a reference was made to some newspapers you have been to come year against her wishes. you are here as part of an inquiry. you don't feral -- feel under any compulsion, were you? >> i wasn't aware it was optional, but i'm glad to be here. >> you said yes? there was no need to take that further. thatsaid in your evidence in respect to the information you have got from mr. snowden, you have only published 1% of t