whole scam that we're looking at that we kind of exploded over the last week it was part of the n.s.a. facility and it's not just mining phone calls and e-mails as also mining financial information such as credit card transactions stock transactions and i think it's kind of a good thing that this story is coming to light in the kind of reminds people that almost everything we do is monitored on some basis everybody carries around these voluntary monitoring devices called phones that information can be used and stored and what not and we don't know if it's being shipped to the or anybody else for that matter but it can potentially be used to get to it sometime hopefully know it and if you're worried about that. you know we have another story from the new york times that reports that the government also spends a lot of money on government contractors and intelligence one of those being booz allen hamilton that's the firm that the n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden was working for that company earned one point three billion dollars last year for government contracting intelligence work and do tha

he is working right now i guess at an n.s.a. facility in hawaii, or hat least stationed there. and he -- he's only worked there for three months. he was with dell computers as a consultant for them for some period of time. prior to that he worked for the central intelligence agent any geneva and other places for about four years. it's a little bit mysterious in terms of a career trajectory because he doesn't have a high school diploma. he obtained his g.e.d. and managed to swing a job at c.i.a. shortly thereafter, after just a brief stint as a security officer with the national security agency. so one of the things that we peer sort of trying to put together right now is how somebody with that sort of background ends up in such a sensitive position, both, you know, with his c.i.a. employment as well as obviously being in a position to view and review a number of very sensitive documents at a national security agency facility. >> rose: he said it was important, he thought, to say who he was and why he did it. he's in hong kong now, somewhere in hong kong. i guess worried about h

to track you, its ability to gather all sorts of private data and analyze it at massive facilities like this n.s.aenter under construction in utah will allow them to do it. >> i think people should be realistic. there is no human reader going through and looking at your e-mails. it is impossible. >> and then as often happens, it's the interaction between cold data and live humans where the synergy takes place. >> and it's your last chance to answer our question of the day. earlier in the show we told you about the obama administration taking sides against the nypd in its stop and frisk trial going on, that program designed to stop criminals. we asked you do you agree with the nypd or the white house. we'll have responses next. >> talk about breaking away, this dog got so sick of sitting in the shelter, so he decided to take matters into his own paws. okay. look at this. ♪ ♪ ♪ the kyocera torque lets you hear and be heard even in stupid loud places. to prove it, we set up our call center right here... [ chirp ] all good? [ chirp ] getty up. seriously, this is really happening! [ cellphone rings ] h

n.s.a. is building this sprawling $2 billion facility in utah just to store it all. but prism also scooped up at na least one major terrorist, najibullah zazi. without prism, zazi might have pulled off a 2009 plot to plant backpack bombs on new york city esbways. edahe was mixed the explosives, he sent this e-mail to al qaeda bomb maker rashid rauf in s to use aaying he didn't know the right amounts to use and ledng his phone number. intelligence that eventually led to his arrest. all the internet companies involved deny giving the government unlimited access to their users' accounts and insist they only turn over information in response to court orders. >> pelley: david, thank you. these surveillance programs remained secret for years until thenknown source leaked the information to columnist glenn greenwald at the british ctor of r the "guardian." the director of national iselligence says that the damage done by this leak is "irreversible." lenny cordes talked to glenn greenwald late today. >> i've been working on this story for, to varying degrees, probably two mo

n.s.a. or one of our facilities, a top secret special intelligence clearance. that goes through a series of processes and reviews. the director of national intelligence is looking at those processes to make sure those are all correct. he's stated he is taking that on. we support that objective. to work at n.s.a., whether you are a contractor, government civilian, or military, you have to have that same level of clearance. >> does it bother you that this gentleman had only been there for a short period of time? is there any sort of oversight or review or whatever of the individuals that are carrying out this work? is there any type of probation time or anything? because, you know, it seems he was there a very short period of time. >> so he had worked in a couple of positions. he had just moved into the booz allen position in march, but he had been in an information technology position in the 10 months prior to that. he had actually been there 15 months. he had moved from one contract to another. >> would he have been familiar with these programs at his previous

n.s.a. up in nevada or whatever wherever their huge facility is is that several guys tech guys from there that concocted many of the schemes actually then went on to form their own private companies he didn't say which ones but he has said that several of those companies have gone public and they themselves are now billionaires so there is this you know this level of conspiracy there but you know the other half of the adam smith quote was that but though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies so here you have barack obama assembling these people together here in the u.k. you had a watt for build a bridge being assembled you know many of the same trade assembling whether their bankers or many of these very same tech giants by the way and the government here is facilitating the assembly but i mean that's the important part of the quote is that you're not supposed to encourage these monopolist getting together to fix prices whereas they do it to build a bridge meeting or as they do it barack obama's a