the n.s.a. f.b.i. and justice department the twenty nine year old school drop come in and take massive massive amounts of data it's obvious there were adequate controls. he might have been fired those are not yet as are they has anybody been admonish officials that at this point no one has been fired nor has anyone residing in the wake of the leak brought up a was the vastness of the program that collects phone records of millions of americans on a daily basis whether or not it's constitutional to do so intelligence officials assured senators that the government only files on actual conversations when they're suspected of terrorist activities in fact according to rebecca branch of officials the surveillance program has thwarted fifty four attacks throughout the world but a spokesperson from the a.c.l.u. said that such a broad collection of information on innocent citizens is unconstitutional base of surveillance is also poisonous for free speech and free association people who know the government could

on one hand the n.s.a. doesn't know what edward snowden fully has on its surveillance on the other it's reported that seventy five percent of u.s. internet traffic is being monitored more on these developments coming up and egypt remains in a state of chaos after the government crackdown on morsy supporters of the former egyptian leader hosni mubarak may soon be released from custody more on the crisis later in the show. it's wednesday august twenty first five pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sax and you're watching our t.v. then we begin with a prison sentence of thirty five years that's what a military judge handed down to bradley manning this morning as punishment for releasing hundreds of thousands of state department cables war logs and other government documents including what's now known as the collateral murder video last month many was found guilty of twenty of twenty two charges including espionage charges he was facing a maximum of ninety years in prison the government asked for many to serve at lea

and the n.s.a. because you were speaking with a bit earlier about how the n.s.a. isn't the only one with all of these capabilities and all this data right well in part gilman's interview with the director mueller the f.b.i. in i think was march of two thousand and eleven for time magazine it was published in time magazine he he had talked about the f.b.i. using stellar wind from our from october basically of two thousand and one so the f.b.i. has been using that database all along and and also in in march or thirty three march of two thousand and eleven also he testified to the senate judiciary committee where he was saying that he could go in to the data to a database the set up with the department of defense where he could go in with one query get all passed and all for all future emails as they come in on a person so that says the content being stored on people inside the united states because it's his response was how would you prevent a future fort hood and someone inside the united states becoming radicalized and keep doing it. pleading a terrorist act insid

to prove that the n.s.a. quote lawfully operates and fixes mistakes when they are detected i asked binney if he thinks that that statement is true. no i basically believe all the fights court orders to do domestic spying are basically general general warrants and they're in violation of the constitution that is the right for privacy the fourth amendment principally but also the first amendment in terms of. by giving that data what that does it it tells them who's in who's associated with who internally in the united states that's that's violating the right of free association of the first amendment so when we have however on the other hand you have john bates the judge having this scathing rhetoric within those court documents what does that do does that kind of solidify or not solidify the idea of the fight the court being a rubber stamp court well i mean it what it finds according it coming out and saying they really have no way of verifying them even the chief judge there is that that he's no way of verify

well so far the n.s.a. leaks and the media attention don't seem to have had any impact on the agency's surveillance practices president obama has promised more oversight but not less snooping arches lucic often have looks at how the organization became so powerful inside america's national security agency i was she rolls her overstepped its legal authority the n.s.a. is a big scary surveillance monster that knows everything we do propelled to mainstream news headlines by controversy the n.s.a. is still largely shrouded in mystery and now headquartered in the fort meade army base in maryland trumps even the cia as america's most secretive intelligence agency now the n.s.a. doesn't have spies out in the field instead there are more than thirty five thousand employees who pore over e-mails computer searches phone calls and personal data and while it's by laws state the n.s.a. is only to conduct foreign intelligence the agency has taken a massive turn toward spying at home but the n.s.a. wasn't always so intent

all of the soviet union the n.s.a.'s mission seemed less urgent but nine eleven the changed everything terrorism became target number one the n.s.a. would get a big budget man a new mission president bush would go on to sign an order launching the n.s.a.'s domestic spying program and telecom companies were secretly approached by the government and asked to participate in two thousand and six it was revealed that the n.s.a. had been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of americans using data provided by a.t.m. tea horizon and bell south the n.s.a. had been tapping into people's lives well since then scandal after scandal would keep the n.s.a. in the spotlight what began as a small organization responsible for making and breaking codes would evolve into a super secret multibillion dollar agency with a capacity to pry into every aspect of americans lives and as edward snowden's leaks would eventually show that is person i sleep what it did who seek out front of r t moscow or just remind you that

moscow after russian authorities went to him temporary asylum in the country the attorney for former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden says that the documents allowing him to stay in russia were issued today snowden is now allowed to live work and travel in the country for up to a year this temporary asylum is also renewable almost as soon as those papers were issued edward snowden packed his bags and left the airport bound for an undisclosed location where he goes and what he does from here on out is still very much a mystery for the latest from moscow our earlier i spoke with r.t. correspondent lizzie france and i asked her if she has any idea where this man is. well that is the million dollar question in moscow right now there's been no official indication of where he may have been headed when he left the airport wiki leaks did release a statement saying that he and his advisor sara harrison i had left the airport this afternoon but a lot of importance has been placed on the secrecy of his location he still feels like a hunted man and the man who has been advising him here on the ground

cia n.s.a. internal revenue service and department of homeland security i was joined earlier by matthew feeney assistant editor at reason twenty four seven to discuss this secretive agency and i asked him how long this practice has been going on. well i mean the special operations division that it's mentioned was actually established to fight drug cartels in the ninety's i believe in latin america but since then it's grown from a couple dozen employees and of inspirations to actually now covering hundreds that's a lot and yes the something that started well over a decade ago to need to go on for this long now does this program point blank in french and some money for them rights on the information i see and i think it does i think any constitutional system that is supposed to support civil liberties should allow citizens when they charge for trying to actually view the evidence presented against them and know how it was a quiet but this doesn't actually doesn't allow for that at all and as you r

database and then n.s.a. analyst can go in search these databases and then touch american communications which goes against spies a court order and when the fires a court learn. about this in two thousand and eleven they basically said look what you're doing here is unconstitutional you have to put in new parameters to limit the search to protect americans did it work we don't know we don't have any opinions from two thousand and twelve addressing this but we had a report last week by the washington post which said thousands of abuses are still existing at the n.s.a. in two thousand and twelve in fact abuses went up from two thousand and eleven to two thousand and twelve that's a shocking revelation as well sam now the fisa court is supposed to provide adequate oversight critics have called it a rubber stamp court does this release back up either one of those claims it doesn't seem likely and you mention the quote by a former pfizer judge bates who basically said look this is the third revelation in less than

parents seeing to n.s.a. program and into the pfizer court and that's kind of what congresswoman's or law firms bill is doing. we heard of arise in the court over the force rise to hand over millions of customers information over to the government what. bill would do is allow companies like arisan internet companies phone companies to make public just how many requests they're getting for the go from the government to hand over their users data and how many users are being affected by that senator al franken in the senate has similar legislation that would do that as well as and also force the government to reveal just how many how many people are being affected by these this kind of these surveillance programs and then all this other avenue you have people trying not just to have more transparency but to actually rein in the n.s.a. you have congressman rush holt to repeal the patriot act in the five amendments act you have senator leahy the chair of the judiciary committee trying to shrink section to fifteen

the cia and the n.s.a. now with the n.s.a. leaks we know exactly how the n.s.a. goes about collecting all of its data it gets it straight from tech companies like google and microsoft or straight from telecom companies like the eighteenth tee and horizon or good sense data straight from the fiber optic cables that carry communications all around the world a process known as up streaming and when it comes specifically to the internet it's one of the n.s.a. has access to seventy five percent of all domestic web traffic now all of this information is then stored in massive n.s.a. databases like the one being constructed in utah capable of holding a yacht a bite of information which is this many bytes the n.s.a. assures us that it's only interested in foreign targets and that there are safeguards in place to protect americans communications but locked in these databases are vast quantities of data belonging to american citizens the real issue is what they actually have stored in their databases they don't consider it a violation of this unless an analyst pulls that t

the cia and the n.s.a. all cooperate with this special operations division now all of these revelations have sparked a fractious debate on capitol hill over the constitutionality of these domestic surveillance programs lawmakers are on recess for the month of august but left on the agenda for when they get back are a number of bills to restrict the n.s.a. spying programs and shed light on the secret fi's a court that oversees the legality of these surveillance programs they range from aggressive reforms like congressman rush holt surveillance state repeal act which repealed both the patriot act in the phys amendments act to more modest reforms like ones floated by senate intel chairwoman dianne feinstein to limit the number of years the n.s.a. can store your collected data so while it does look like change is coming to the n.s.a. the question is who will lead the change and what will it look like i was joined earlier by heidi big ocean executive director of the national lawyers guild from new york and brian

tea horizon and bell south the n.s.a. had been tapping into people's lives well since then scandal after scandal would keep the n.s.a. in the spotlight what began as a small organization responsible for making and breaking codes would evolve into a super secret multibillion dollar agency with the capacity to pry into every aspect of americans lives and as edward snowden's leaks would eventually show that is person i sleep what it did who seek out front of r t moscow r.t. says our affiliate is in london for us following the twists and turns surrounding the paper that published the n.s.a. leaks all are updates on twitter and her latest post she says greenwald partner is taking a legal action against home office a move supported by the guardian. a massive stream of refugees from syria has crossed the raw border where almost thirty thousand people have been on the run from the war zone since thursday most of them are kurdish women and children who had to leave after their homes were attacked by islamist rebels linked to al qa

tea horizon and bell south the n.s.a. had been tapping into people's lives well since then scandal after scandal would keep the n.s.a. in the spotlight what began as a small organization responsible for making and breaking codes would evolve into a super secret multibillion dollar agency with a capacity to pry into every aspect of americans lives and as edward snowden's leaks would eventually show that is person i slowly what it did there's a cow fan of our team moscow. massive floods are still sweeping across russia's far east the region's main city does its most to to fan itself from the advancing waters as we continue to bring you the real life stories from the devastated area. iraq is facing an unprecedented influx of refugees almost thirty thousand people have crossed its border with syria since thursday the lion's share of those displaced are kurds found themselves caught in the middle of the war and other teams policy are now reports it's another sign of the conflict can be contained within syria. the exodus shows

a leaked n.s.a. internal audit for the year twenty twelve shows thousands of violations and those are the ones that the n.s.a. itself has documented and other paper provide some details on how the agency avoids scrutiny from its supposed to oversee years that justice department n.s.a. analyst are instructed to give only a broad rationale for for targeting someone and the analysts are specifically warned that they must not provide the evidence on which they base their suspicion the n.s.a. defend itself by saying the information is available if requested by overseers but generally from these documents we get the impression that not only has the public being in the dark about these programs but also those who are supposed to provide oversight one of the documents for instance shows that the foreign intelligence. surveillance court which has the authority over some n.s.a. operations did not learn about a new collection method and till it had been in operation for many months the court ruled it unconstitu

tea horizon and bell south the n.s.a. had been tapping into people's lives well since then scandal after scandal would keep the n.s.a. in the spotlight what began as a small organization responsible for making and breaking codes would evolve into a super secret multibillion dollar agency with a capacity to pry into every aspect of americans lives and as edward snowden's leaks would eventually show that his person i slowly what it did there's a cow fan of our team moscow we're going to take a short break here on our team and i'll be back with more news. technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got a huge area covered. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. choose your language. of holy week you know if they still some of. the pews the consensus here could. choose the opin

told the n.s.a. something was going on it was the employees yes and the other thing you should gain glean from that particular disclosure is the fact that all of this information is in the databases of n.s.a. very interesting now talk about the relationship of the f.b.i. and the t.h.s. and the n.s.a. because you were speaking with a bit earlier about how the n.s.a. is in the on. one with all of these capabilities and all this data right well part elman's interview with the director mueller the f.b.i. in i think was march of two thousand and eleven for time magazine it was published in time magazine he he had talked about the f.b.i. using stellar wind from from october basically of two thousand and one so the f.b.i. has been using that database all along and and also in in march or thirty three march of two thousand and eleven also he testified to the senate judiciary committee where he was saying that he could go in to the data to a database the set up with the department of defense where he could go

well the n.s.a. director was certainly heckled at an event that usually gathers not only hackers and security professionals but also representatives of government agencies and corporations tensions between the authorities and the community of computer specialists became even more obvious when organizers of the next conference defcon asked federal agents who are usually welcome to come to stay out. where producer andrew blake was there. def-con is united states premier happy security convention and actually comes just days after another one right up the street there are a ray of topics being covered here at def con of course everything from personal security to home security internet security computer security it's not just that civil liberties are very hot discussion especially given the recent n.s.a. disclosures people want to know how they can communicate privately and securely on the web and really there's no better place to do it than here one doesn't necessarily have to say that tensions are hig

tea horizon and bell south the n.s.a. had been tapping into people's lives well since then scandal after scandal would keep the n.s.a. in the spotlight what began as a small organization responsible for making and breaking codes would have all been to a super secret multibillion dollar agency with a capacity to pry into every aspect of americans lives and as edward snowden's leaks would eventually show that his person what it did those accounts and of our team moscow. now remember you can always log on to our website for more on this story also there for you today check out the amazing pictures the japanese volcano eruption that smoke announced covering the whole city. but two of spanish fishing boats stage a protest in disputed waters. i made escalating tensions between london and madrid over the territory find out what sparked the animosity at r t dot com. ijaz authorities have detained the head of the country's muslim brotherhood mohamed mohamed baiji this comes as a new report by human rights watch which accuses the c

other n.s.a. programs that people are not happy about and so this story is building on itself over and over and over again it's just snowballing and so this next week we'll probably have a lot of new things to cover as far as what government reactions are and so the hunt for edward snowden continues a new are to correspondent lindsey france reporting from moscow thank you so much well it's a secret court that almost never says no it was created by the foreign intelligence surveillance act and then expand that by the patriot act which allows the government to spy on american citizens now the fines the court is facing facing up major scrutiny from lawmakers who are demanding for better oversight following the disclosures by edward snowden connecticut senator richard blumenthal is in the process of crafting legislation to reform the feis of courts and allow for public scrutiny the problem he says is that the eleven member court is so secretive that it undermines the idea of balancing threats of terro

horizon and bell south the n.s.a. had been tapping into people's lives well since then scandal after scandal would keep the n.s.a. in the spotlight what began as a small organization responsible for making and breaking codes would evolve into a super secret multibillion dollar agency with a capacity to pry into every aspect of americans lives and as edward snowden's leaks would eventually show that his person what it did. r.t.e. moscow. ok let's focus now them back on the british side it mentioned just no good talking to and feel he's from the human rights group cage prisoners i'm pleased to say joining us now live in london from outside the guardian building hi there on word nice to see the expat with us david miranda was detained under this anti terrorism law should you seven of the terrorism act is that law as you see being misused as far as he's concerned. ok schedule seven is a very abusive law and we've we had case prisoners we've we've got that many testimonies of people who've been. with i knew. a valid justif

tea horizon and bell south the n.s.a. had been tapping into people's lives well since then scandal after scandal would keep the n.s.a. in the spotlight what began as a small organization responsible for making and breaking codes would have all been to a super secret multibillion dollar agency with a capacity to pry into every aspect of americans lives and as edward snowden's leaks would eventually show at his person what it did those accounts and of our team moscow we have more news coming up on our t.v. after this short break stay with us. oh. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks of the ip interview intriguing story to tell you. the arabic to find out more visit our big don't go t.v. don't call. here with r t live from moscow egypt's authorities have detained the head of the country's muslim brotherhood mohamed badie this comes as a new report by human rights watch is released accusing the country's military of a lawful mass killings and its cr

. >> the idea that n.s.a. is keeping files on americans as a general rule just isn't true. >> woodruff: then, rebels fired scores of rockets on the syrian city of homs as the assad regime celebrated army day. margaret warner gets the latest on the bloody civil war from npr's deborah amos. >> brown: law enforcement bids farewell to f.b.i. director robert mueller. ray suarez explores the transformation of the bureau after the 9-11 attacks. >> woodruff: and we hear from two u.s. senators leading the push to keep the military's sexual assault cases in the chain of command. gwen ifill talks to new hampshire republican kelly ayotte and missouri democrat claire mccaskill. >> the other side has wanted to make this argument about victims vs. uniforms. that's a false premise. this argument is about how we can protect victims the best. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us.

n.s.a.pies on internet activity and eleanor holmes norton looks back at the march on washington. but first, with the other news of the day. here's kwame holman. >> holman: an egyptian court today ordered the release of ex-president hosni mubarak. a hearing was held at tora prison, where the ailing 85-year-old has been detained for two years. once freed, he'll be placed under house arrest on orders of egypt's prime minister. mubarak also faces charges of failing to prevent the deaths of protesters in the 2011 uprising that ousted him from power. meanwhile the european union held emergency talks on the egyptian crisis in brussels. its foreign policy chief, catherine ashton, said the e.u. member nations strongly condemn the recent spate of violence between the interim government and supporters of the muslim brotherhood. >> we've agreed, as well, to review the issue of our assistance to egypt with the understanding of assistance to the most vulnerable groups and to civil society must continue. m

n.s.a.'s massive surveillance programs. that government officials assured us they weren't listening to our calls or reading our emails. >> n.s.a. cannot target your emails. >> and have not. >> and have not. >> does the n.s.a. collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans. >> no sir. >> does the n.s.a. intercept americans' cell phone conversations. >> no. >> google searches. >> no. >> text messages. >> no. >> there is no spying on americans, we don't have a domestic spying program. >> are you telling the truth? it depends on your definition, i guess of truth. the narc times reports that the national supreme court administration is in fact searching the contents of vast amounts of americans email and text communications into and out of the country. that sounds like domestic spying to me. press secretary jay carney doubled down on the administration's loose definition of the word lying. >> joe schmo from kokomo wants to know if he sends and email overseas if i

is the domestic partner of the n.s.a. when it comes to snooping on u.s. citizens. elsewhere newark mayor cory booker won the democratic primary in new jersey in the new jersey senate race with a huge margin on tuesday the victory propels booker into the special election on october sixteenth but have recent n.s.a. surveillance concerns played any role in this election or will they in any upcoming elections political commentator sam sachs reports so cory booker won big last night and he's likely to be the next senator from new jersey but this election is important for another reason it was the first national attention grabbing election in which the surveillance activities of the n.s.a. were in issue they were made that way by congressman rush holt who when he learned of the n.s.a. leak said screw it and introduced a bill in the house to repeal everything but the patriot act in the buys a moment to act and since he was running for senate at the time against cory booker here in this ad specifically hitting booker on a number of things including supporting massive gover

and defenders of the n.s.a. and its surveillance programs have said that these powers have not been abused but the latest snowden leak shows thousands of rule violations occurred in one year alone more on the expanding surveillance state coming up and finally bradley manning faces a potential ninety years in prison for leaking classified documents to wiki leaks they the government gives a rebuttal against the army whistleblowers defense more on today's events from for me straight ahead. it's friday august sixteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sax and you're watching our team and we begin with breaking news out of egypt where another bloody day of fighting has resulted in more deaths following the gyptian military's brutal crackdown this week on supporters of the muslim brotherhood islamised called for a day of rage today and again took to the streets and there are reports of clashes getting worse security officials in egypt say at least sixty people died across the country today in cairo mosques are repor

and the n.s.a. really is certainly considering the amount of money that's been poured in and just to remind you that it's over one hundred million pounds over the past three years it would seem as though the british side is almost dependent on their american counterparts for his political reporting that now snowden's leaks and the n.s.a.'s sweeping surveillance program also dominated this year's tech conference in las vegas the agency's head trying to defend the much criticized snooping methods over speech wasn't exactly well warmly met by participants artie's web producer andrew blake was there to attend the event and has more on it. people who touch computers with any sort of degree and anyone who can do something with technology to harness it to make it better to innovate to to invent their fifteen thousand of them they're all here in vegas and they're all looking forward to having an interesting couple of days soon to leave with some new knowledge in the past in christian and different ways of c

tea horizon and bell south the n.s.a. had been tapping into people's lives well since then scandal after scandal would keep the n.s.a. in the spotlight what began as a small organization responsible for making and breaking codes what evolve into a super secret multibillion dollar agency with a capacity to pry into every aspect of americans lives and as edward snowden's leaks would eventually show at his person i sleep what it did there's a cow fan of our team moscow. plus promises kept to the british side of this no talk to me and done to the editor of the website politics. is on the line from london i. believe the high end are you surprised to hear the guardian claims that prime minister cameron personally approved an attempt to force the newspaper to destroy the data or it had. no not really i mean it would be quite strange of course if the white house had been warned about what was going to happen given a heads up in their own words and the prime minister i'm so for the not been informed so of course it's quite useful

and an encrypted e-mail service used by n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden has been shut down the owner of the site says that he's legally barred from even saying why and a second web site has also closed its encrypted e-mail service is this a case of the u.s. government trying to stop the messenger more on this just ahead. and in georgia a fifteen year old boy was initially denied a heart transplant because of a history of noncompliance and the child's family claimed it was because of his history of low grades and trouble with the law more on this story later in tonight show. hello there it's tuesday august thirteenth eight pm here in washington d.c. i marinate and you're watching our two. we start our newscast tonight in fort meade maryland where brother lee manning's defense team continues to deliver their case in the sentencing phase of the court martial of army private first class manning was convicted of leaking thousands of pages of one classified documents to answer secrecy website wiki leaks or to correspondent liz wahl

national intelligence has actually knowledge that the court found the n.s.a. in breach of the fourth amendment which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures so the administration's main shield for these programs secrecy they can brush of any opinions on state secrets grounds basically in the wake of snowden's revelations responding to public outrage about these programs the white house promised more transparency we heard president obama announced an independent panel of outsiders that would be set up to investigate concerns about the scale of n.s.a. surveillance but he passed the director of national intelligence james clapper to establish that panel at the same james james clapper who two years ago lied to congress about about the scale of the program he was asked whether the whether the the n.s.a. collects. data on millions of americans and he said he said no actually in fact he apologized last month for misleading a senate hearing by denying that the n.s.a. collects information about millions of americans and then also. the. critics of course accuse th

bratislava slovakia nicely caught the n.s.a. has violated the rules on surveillance and even us court rulings thousands of times per year for several years that submerged from fresh revelations based on data leaked by edward snowden live to washington i correspondent going to chickens there i go there's trouble upon trouble really doesn't it for the n.s.a. already out into the pressure that currently under your. that's right having the papers the washington post has obtained apparently through edward snowden show that the n.s.a. decided it did not only sneed to report quote unquote unintended surveillance of americans a leaked n.s.a. internal audit for the year twenty twelve shows thousands of violations and those are the ones that the n.s.a. itself has documented and other paper provide some details on how the agency avoids scrutiny from its supposed to oversee years that justice department n.s.a. analyst are instructed to give only a broad rationale for for targeting someone and the analysts are specifically warned that they m