n.s.a. intelligence community were going to use media mischaracterization of government surveillance programs he said it was going to happen sure enough just about an hour ago this article popped up right so i actually there was a senator congressman amash was there as well and he called senator wyden the congressional whistleblower because he was his questions to get the intelligence community to try to say things that he himself is not a lot of say due to non-disclosure forms that he had to fill out and certain intelligence community things that he's just not allowed to share but he did say that he was very liberated to actually be able to have this opportunity to now speak on the record about it and i think we have a clip of that. in america the truth always comes out any government official who thought that there wouldn't be disclosures about a constitutionally flawed you know program just didn't read history and i in fact outlined that history on the floor of the united states senate does several years ago when ai indicated that americans would be stunned and angry when they learned and

n.s.a.'s powers to check intelligence. this following a string of controversies rewarding spying on other countries and their leaders. spain is the latest country reportedly spied on by the agency. >> the n.s.a. spying scandal put the issues of privacy from the fight against terrorism under an international microscope. how does the government collect information to protect national security? joining us is jonathan stray, a computer scientist and fellow at columbia's university. what exactly is the n.s.a. collecting? >> they are charged with collecting electronic intelligence around the globe generally for the u.s. government, so they intercept information from fiber object tim cables all over the world that carry our phone traffic and internet traffic. they have radio listening posts listening to everything going into the air. >> it sounds like 1984, but how sophisticated is this technology? can anyone do this? >> the n.s.a. reckons to be the most sophisticated and largest in the world. the u.s. cooperates with allies throu

n.s.a. claims that e.u. intelligence agencies willingly share data reportedly backed by the latest leaks published in spain the paper that early revealed more than sixty million calls were tracked by the n.s.a. within a month now says this was done in collaboration with spanish intelligence services now this document shows the u.s. distinguishes four different levels of cooperation with foreign agencies the first group is made up of those which share the most intelligence with washington including the u.k. canada australia and new zealand to give a known as the five the second group includes more than a dozen european countries spain being among them including japan south korea and turkey the third shares only limited data and that includes france israel india and pakistan and the fourth group is made up of countries washington sees as hostile to its interests another journalist behind the elmendorf report come out and told me earlier more countries are about to discover how closely their agencies worked with the n.s.a.

intelligence james clapper and keith alexander the director of the n.s.a. have been regular fixtures on capitol hill getting grilled by members who were only informed about the intelligence community's activities thanks to edward snowden's leaks but today alexander admitted to once testing whether the n.s.a. could track american cell phone locations but he did deny an article published in the new york times on saturday that said the agency was creating social graphs of american citizens detailing who they're associating with now not all lawmakers are convinced that the n.s.a. needs considerable reform senator dianne feinstein the chairwoman of the senate intelligence committee vowed today to protect the n.s.a. i so regret what is happening i will do everything i can to prevent this program from being canceled out there's going to be a bill in my committee to do it there's a bill in this committee to do it it is legal we are looking at increased transparency we are looking to make some changes in but we are not looking to destroy it to destroy is to make this

for testifying before the house intelligence committee n.s.a. director general keith alexander forcefully warned against limiting the surveillance program this fear was echoed by the u.s. intelligence chief he said reforms would lead to greater risks now this is all happening against the backdrop of a growing diplomatic row with america's e.u. allies demanding answers over allegations their citizens and leaders were spying on european correspondent as a senior brings the details. there is a delegation of the u. officials and separately a delegation of german officials who are in washington to speak with the members of the u.s. administration as well as intelligence chiefs to discuss this latest revelation in this case of national security agency's a spying operations on up to thirty five world leaders including german chancellor angela merkel as well as allegedly tens of millions of of french and spanish citizens as well now the outrage in europe has been palpable we have on the liverpool having said that the confidence of our country towards the

n.s.a. has also been tuning into the communications of thirty five world leaders senate intelligence committee chairwoman dianne feinstein offered her her two cents today about the surveillance of world leaders saying quote with respect to n.s.a. collection of intelligence on leaders of us. allies including france spain and mexico and germany let me state unequivocally i am totally opposed now the european union parliamentary delegation is preparing for a visit to the u.s. to express concerns over n.s.a. surveillance tactics political commentator sam sachs brings us more. in the coming days german intelligence officials will come to washington d.c. to demand answers from the white house about surveillance on chancellor angela merkel but the anger coming from germany and the rest of europe today is a marked departure from just a few months ago when germany was defending its close cooperation with the n.s.a. that was after an edward snowden leak in june revealed that the n.s.a. was collecting a half billion german telephone and internet communications every month with the assistance of german in

n.s.a. reform grow louder among washington's political elite but intelligence chiefs remain defiant warning of drastic consequences if the spying program is. with e.u. officials in washington to demand an explanation over the n.s.a. sweeping spy program a spanish paper reports that local intelligence services actually helped the surveillance. independence or security in london threatened to deny access to its intelligence services if scotland votes yes to separation from the united kingdom. and canadians get the first of a bitcoin a.t.m. codes for cash global uses of turning to the unstable side the current. line from our studio center here in moscow this is r t with you twenty four hours a day in the us political opinion towards the spying practices that cause a storm of global criticism looks to be shifting both republicans and democrats have called for reform of the n.s.a. with lawmakers proposing a ban on the agency collecting data in bulk the intelligence community is however strongly opposed it is much more important for this country that we defend this nation and take the beatings. th

n.s.a. collection of intelligence on leaders of u.s. allies let me state unequivocally i am totally opposed i do not believe the united states should be collecting phone calls or e-mails of friendly presidents and prime ministers meanwhile on capitol hill the house intelligence committee held a hearing to discuss the role of pfizer in the surveillance of american citizens or the foreign intelligence surveillance act is the piece of legislation that sets guidelines for the n.s.a.'s bulk collection of foreign intelligence information this was the committee's second open hearing since former government contractor edward snowden leaked detailed information about how the programs operate back in june in a statement a house panel spokesperson said the hearing was in place to quote assess a number of proposals to improve transparency and strengthen privacy protections to further build the confidence of the american public and our nation's pfizer programs i was going to earlier by artie's sam sachs to talk about this hearing and the latest on t

or the foreign intelligence surveillance act is the piece of legislation that sets guidelines for the n.s.a.'s bulk collection of foreign intelligence information this is the committee's second open hearing since former government contractor edward snowden leaked detailed information about how the programs operate back in june in a statement a house panel spokesperson said the hearing was in place to quote assess a number of proposals to improve transparency and strengthen privacy protections to further build the confidence of the american public and our nation's spies of programs so to talk about this hearing and the latest on the n.s.a. i'm joined now by artie's sam sachs who is now at the capitol sam now the hearing was supposed to consider a number of proposals can you talk about what those proposals entails. sure just to recap a little bit of what you said there the phase of court is this court that we're told is giving oversight to the n.s.a. it's where the n.s.a. goes to get a lot of its orders to conduct surveillance all over the world unfortunately nobody really knows what goes on

has withheld intelligence documents from you in the past and here we see an argument a public argument between two members of the committee over what they knew and when they knew about an n.s.a. program what sort of faith should the american people have in the congressional intelligence committees to provide oversight a little or none in fact what we see from the congressional from these congressional oversight committees regarding our so-called intelligence community is not the they're performing oversight rather overlooking and systematically doing so i think that they become apologists for the spying industrial complex and i have literally never seen them do anything other than rationalize these in some cases gross abuses and constitutional violations particularly with regard to domestic surveillance. when it comes to these issues of drones and domestic surveillance these issues typically transcend party lines and you find progressive democrats like yourself working with libertarian republicans like some in the tea party as someone who's leveled quite a bit of criticism at the tea party what do you make of these new political coalitions that have formed in recent months a

n.s.a. whistleblower intelligence was a blowers wasn't cover also t.s.a. whistleblowers was uncovered so ray kelly gets back in as homeland security chief of course he's going to go after the t.s.a. whistleblowers he's going to go after all these other whistleblowers so again we do not want to i think i speak for everybody even though i left there eight years ago i still know what's going on and i speak for all the employees they do not want ray kelly back in the agency have you been following his record as the n.y.p.d. commissioner i mean what has he been doing there. that kind of proves your point while he's been making statements saying that african-americans deserve to be stopped and frisked more than any of the braised simply because they commit more crimes that is what he has been telling people in a new i mean he not only promotes racial profiling where he allows it to take place . i guess the biggest question of all is why is this administration even thinking about appointing someone who is just openly racist in implementing such a ridiculous uncon

n.s.a. contractor was presented with an award for integrity intelligence given to him by a group of former u.s. officials are. as the details. the n.s.a. whistleblower was very passionate in talking about the problem of government surveillance in the united states now he said the issue wasn't with any specific spying program rather the relationship between the state and the american people a relationship which he described as increasingly coming into conflict with democratic values snowden also lashed out at the prosecution of whistleblowers accusing the government of what he called effectively misplaced priorities because the more you know the relationship to god we're with executive order just it's on the news last. night. to the bombs. but they'll stop the. person. holding the snowden maybe as remarks at a ceremony right here in moscow at an undisclosed location where he was given the sam adams award for integrity in intelligence now that award was presented to him by a group of prominent american whistleblowers and former government officials they joined our t.v. for an in-depth studio dis

n.s.a. and the u.k.'s intelligence service g c h q and it's important to note that this program is different from the previously disclosed prism program which we learned gathers data from internet companies through court orders instead here the n.s.a. is directly targeting tech companies many american tech companies without their knowledge and collecting data about their users both google and yahoo say they were unaware of this program and are concerned by it meanwhile the n.s.a. chief general keith alexander said that to his knowledge this program doesn't exist . this latest revelation comes just as european union lawmakers wrap up days of meeting with u.s. intelligence officials to discuss n.s.a. overreaches regarding recent reports of mass collection of data in france and spain as well as reports that the n.s.a. spies on thirty five world leaders including german chancellor on merkel e.u. officials at a press conference today and r t caught up with one of them elmore brock the chairman of the european parliament com

can make a binary here we need intelligence to keep ourselves safe but maybe we need intelligence to keep the n.s.a. in business it's a matter of survival for the intelligence community itself i mean they've divorced themselves from the mission it is just to continue the expansion of their empire improve that they need to exist. well you know they at the very least some eighty billion dollars a year much of their budget is it's not you're not capable of scrutinizing it and i worked in the u.s. house for eleven years we were never allowed to look at the appropriations for the intelligence community it was all classified so we had no idea what was being appropriated only certain members under certain conditions could actually see what was happening so you have a b.m. it's gotten out of control and quite frankly i feel sorry for the president if you if you does try to rein them in because it could very well be dangerous. what is the process of reform here because if we have the oversight who oversees the overseers in feinstein is a perfect example of it and it's was her job to do this and now she's sa

>> have a good intelligence agency, and n.s.a. whose job it is to look at open source, interview people, and try not only for ourselves to have situational awareness not only for ourselves but our allies. if what you do in germany helps the germans and us, but i don't believe ever listening to the head of state of an ally would be appropriate. >> and would hope if it's happened that the president is just as upset as all of us are in congress. >> schieffer: reporter, thank you so much, mr. chairman. i want to go to portsmouth, new hampshire, and democratic senator jeanne shaheen. senator, thank you for joining us. >> good morning gleeft person brought in to fix obamacare and the web site told reporters friday that the problems would be fixed by november 30. do you still want them to extend the time that people have to enroll in this program? >> well, let me begin by saying that i support the affordable care act. i voted for it. i think it's important that we make it work for the millions of americans who haven't been able to get he

intelligence agency have been reportedly very close allies and have been doing the dirty work for the n.s.a. so let's not lose sight. for a lot more produce more updates on the revelations that just keep on coming on the u.k. intelligence agency g c h q at a website or two dot com. torches reached the north pole for the first time as part of the ambitious such a twenty fourteen relay artie's james brown's joined the arctic voyage great trip this on board a nuclear icebreaker. just in case you didn't actually believe we were going to the north pole i think that eliminates any down doesn't it you might think it's just before the dawn or just before the sun sets but actually we're right smack bang in the middle of the day in fact it's just gone twelve thirty in the afternoon but of course the further north we go the less daylight we're getting the polar nights are coming into full effect and as you can see our ice breaker is really having to prove our worth now. a thing you can see everything's getting rather busy and excited up here and we're all on the bridge for the final approach. sorry ly

a program that would result in this nation being attacked testifying before the house intelligence committee n.s.a. director general keith alexander forcibly warned against a lifting of the surveillance program this year was echoed by the u.s. intelligence chief said reforms would lead to greater risks this is all happening against a bank draft of a growing diplomatic with america's e.u. allies demanding answers over allegations their citizens and leaders are worse planted on our european correspondent tessa we will join us later this hour with more news but now. and now the british government is pushing hard to persuade schools that independence is not the way to go the home secretaries are now warning that by going in scotland may lose access to intelligence services and leaving it at a greater risk laura smith has started the claims for this. she says that any scottish independence would undermine the fight against organized crime cyber attacks terrorism and things like that because scotland would have to build up its own security infrastructure as it would no longer necessarily have access to

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n.s.a. has seen u.s. intelligence bosses go to great lengths to justify their activities officially they've been told to use nine eleven as their main argument according to documents and leaks in the media and some politicians are happy to follow that advice what i want to tell you about is how did we get here nine eleven prior to nine eleven we had no way of connecting those dots what section two fifteen does is allow the government to connect the dots these dots should have and likely could have been connected to prevent nine eleven many of these reform proposals run the risk of recreating the type of cumbersome over lawyer pfizer regime that proved so inadequate in the wake of nine eleven one incident was called nine eleven that should never happen again. they and shoot of the u.s. intelligence community indicates a reluctance to reform says american political analyst eric draitser. intrust the scene bureaucrats like clapper and others who have been caught lying publicly on the record to congress and to other polic

n.s.a. spying programs the senate. intelligence committee. so they want to make sure that their voices are heard. is now divided into those who demand a drastic overhaul of the spying programs and those who suggest. more oversight now one of the main messages of this rally is watch the watchers some people are asking is it really possible because so far a new light that's been shed on the watchers was through whistleblowers you know good point got it thanks for now it will become about you through the course of the evening as that rally develops. now of course the n.s.a. has been under fire over its overseas activities as well revelations it's been eavesdropping on key allies including german chancellor angela merkel sparked outrage in europe this last week we're getting reports tonight to the president told merkel in a phone conversation that he had no knowledge this was going on a put that the civil rights act was richard back if he dumps that plane the united states its relationship with other countries is based and this notion of quote un

n.s.a. has seen u.s. intelligence bosses go to great lengths to justify their activities officially they've been told to use nine eleven as they may know argument according to a document leaked in the media and some politicians are happy to follow that advice what i want to tell you about is how did we get here nine eleven prior to nine eleven we had no way of connecting those dots what section two fifteen does is allow the government to connect the dots these dutch should have and likely could have been connected to prevent nine eleven many of these reform proposals run the risk of recreating the type of cumbersome over lawyer phase a regime that proved so inadequate in the wake of nine eleven one incident was called nine eleven that should never happen again. let's discuss washington's approach now with pepe escobar he's an asia times correspondent joins me live now from london offices twelve years on now after those nine eleven attacks it is fair to justify the fact that mass surveillance does continue as it is a g

n.s.a. was collecting a half billion german telephone and internet communications every month with the assistance of german intelligence chancellor angela merkel was quick to defend her government's cooperation with the n.s.a. saying it prevented terrorist attacks in the fight against terrorist threats we can only protect the population if we cooperate with others her office said in an interview at their spiegel edward snowden described the cozy relationship between german spies and the n.s.a. we're in bed together with the germans the same as with most other western countries he said they don't ask to justify how we know something and vice versa to insulate their political leaders from the backlash of knowing how grievously they're violating global privacy the united states has an agreement with four other countries to share intelligence those countries include canada the u.k. australia and new zealand now each country spying agency is directed at the certain region of the world and together these five countries are known as the five. and they also share intelligence with roughly thirty other nations including germany

. >> reporter: the director of national intelligence today confirmed the n.s.a. has long spied to friendly foreign leaders to understanding the thinking of both enemies and allies. >> it's invaluable to us to know where countries are coming from, what their policies are, how that would impact us across a whole range of issues. >> reporter: german chancellor angela merkel has accused the u.s. of monitoring her personal cell phone. senate intelligence committee member, republican susan collins, said today that's inappropriate. >> there's absolutely no justification for our country to be collecting intelligence information on the leaders of some of our closest allies. >> reporter: but before the house intelligence committee, clapper was unapologetic. >> some of this reminds me a lot of classic movie ""casablanca--" my god, there's gambling going on here poopts the same kind of thing. >> reporter: national security agency chief keith alexander said european partners have not been shy about spying on the u.s. alexander was questioned by minnesota republican michele ba

n.s.a. program is eight are a bam wagner. he specializes in national security, cyber security and intelligence. thanks for joining us this morning. >> my pleasure, stephanie, thank you very much. >> thanks. >> the n.s.a. director general alexander maintains everything the n.s.a. is doing is in the interest of national security. do we have proof of that? >> that's the business they're in. they, you know, under the original 1947 national security act, we enabled our intelligence services to do activities, including things like espionage and collection of intelligence in support of national security and defense, and that is their exclusive mission, and the most -- well the executive order actually signed by president reagan which defines the roles, and missions of all the intelligence agencies makes it perfectly clear what their mission is. that's exactly what they do. >> and what their authority is. >> let's listen to what some of what general alexander had to say yesterday. >> there ma not been a mass casualty here in the u.s. since 2001. that's not by luck. they didn't stop hating us. they didn'