unitedhealthcare. >> schieffer: war back with the former head of the national security agency and theia, general michael haykden, do you spy on anla merkel. >> i can't comment on any leadership. the intentions were very high intelligence priorities for the life of the national security agency. it's nothing special it certainly nothing new. >> schieffer: could it be possible that the president didn't know about it if we were listening in on her cell phone? >> i think the president's statement at face value. i can imagine circumstances where he wouldn't. it's impossible for me to imagine that the nsc, the administration, the white house didn't know. and the fact that they didn't rush in to tell the president this was going on points out what i think is a fund menthol fact. >> schieffer: that is? >> this wasn't exceptional. this is what we were expect to do. >> schieffer: let me ask you this, if we stop spying on angleca merkel will the chinese also stand down their efforts? >> i don't think so. i know the chance already's embarrassed, we're a friend. this revelation put her in a very di

example, in the united states, it appears as though, according to the documents, that the national security agency tracked everyone's phone calls. in order to identify 300 suspects. we had to track according to the disclosures, 300 million people's activities. it doesn't seem right. it seems like overreach. over and over again this needs to be organized. there are legitimate uses of this. this is clearly overstep. in this particular case, we assume that there was monitoring between different computer systems. with enkrepgcryptioencryption. we can stop it. >> google is calling this overreach. you're clearly angry about this.

. >>> outrageous that the national security agency was looking between the google data centers. if that's true, the steps the organization was willing to do without good judgment and potentially violate people's privacy is not okay. >> he comes out swinging against the nsa for going a bit too far

or at least that was the plan considered by the national security agency according to new documents leaked by edward snowden and reported by glen greenwald and huffington post. the nsa spied on six muslims it deemed radicalizers in order to exploit personal weaknesses including online porn habits. one of the leaked documents

next, the house intelligence onmittee hearing testimony the national security agency intelligence programs in the u.s. and abroad. witnesses included national intelligence agency director james clapper and homeland security department officials. this hearing is two-and-a-half hours. >> i remind all guests that i will only accept civil the koran and only those recognized to speak will be allowed to speak andhe core him --decorum only those recognized to speak will be allowed to speak. i would like to recognize our first panel today. director of national intelligence james clapper james clapper,, deputy attorney the deputyes cole, director of the nsa, chris inglis. we will move immediately into the second panel of non- governmental experts knowledgeable on fisa issues. we will discuss possible changes to the way fisa applications are handled by the department of justice. i hope all of our witnesses will give clear answers about how proposals under consideration at congress would affect the nsa's ability to stop terrorist attacks. i am going to submit my statement for the record in order to a

whether to take up the case filed the a group that is challenging an order giving the national security national security agency sweeping powers to obtain phone data. one hinted the supreme court may have to get involved. justice antonin scalia said it is likely the judicial branch will have to settle these questions and the group that brought the case, they're feeling comfortable it is going to get the votes to move the case forward, shep. >> how is the white house responding? >> it has filed a brief in opposition with the supreme court, urging the justices not to take up the case. what epic has done is unusual. rather than going through the lower courts it filed directly with the supreme court, calling this an extraordinary situation. the government says they have identified no special circumstances that require a statutory challenge to begin in this court. here's how she responds from the group. >> i can't imagine a circumstance more extraordinary than the national security agency taking phone calls from every individual in the united states. >> every individual in the u.s. and their phone records. that vote

and we begin today with new revelations regarding the national security agency according to secret documents obtained by the huffington post through edward snowden the n.s.a. participated in tracking the online sexual activity of people the agency considered to be quote radical wiser's it was all part of a proposed plan to target six different muslims thought to have been influencing

us state department has declined to confirm or deny the report washington's national security agency spying on high priority israeli military targets in york times reported on nov third in a seven page article based on documents leaked by performer and as a contractor that were snowed in all the in depth overview the tales highly classified documents leaked by snowden they include document outlining the american intelligence agencies monitoring of israeli targets namely israel defense forces drone aircraft and israel's black sparrow missile system classified documents leaked to the report further confirm the reports of past cooperation between the nsa any of the idf signal intelligence unit eighty two under it would try clearly cheese raw materials ok my signals intelligence that is by spying. top obama administration officials have in the past praised israel's intelligence capabilities and express gratitude for receiving access to it. new york times report comes on the heels of our age in europe over the revelation that the us listen in on european leaders including capping german c

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i welcome general michael hayden who ran the national security agen agency. he is now principal with the chertoff group. welcome back to the show, michael. >> thank you, fareed. >> let's focus on this issue of eavesdropping of senior officials of allied governments. there's a distinction about collecting metadata, traffic and phone calls and emails from across europe. tell me how would it work if the national security agency would tap the cell phone of senior leader of an allied government, who would have made that decision and what would the process have been? >> it depends on the senior leader. depends on the intelligence requirements. very often, fareed, what you get are very specific intelligence requirements from our national command authority and they are laid out to the intelligence community and then the intelligence community goes forward and lays out a collection plan the best way to get that very needed information. occasionally, fareed, occasionally, what you have is political guidance kind of being placed on top of your operational planning. i ha

there are new revelations about just how far the national security agency has gone to spy on internet users. revelations that have reportedly led twitter to set up new types of enciption to protect messages from snoops, something google spent millions doing. facebook is trying to stay a step ahead. now the senate intelligence committee is set to tighten the rules. >> these are the slides leaked by whistleblower edward snowden in june. as long as the national security agency or the federal bureau of investigation are 51% sure that the user is foreign, their emails, audio and video chats, photographs and documents are all theirs for the searching. this >> carefully worded denials followed from the companies, arguing that they give specific information to the u.s. government as legally required on a case-by-case basis. these assurances have been left irrelevant with the news and release of a new slide showing that the n.s.a. bypassed this system, gaining entry to yahoo and google's data centres by breaking into their fibre optic cables. u.s. citizens no longer receive protections as all

have they done an independent audit of what the national security agency was looking into?r and they should. >> so do you think -- what about snowden's leaks, bob, you've looked at in terms of how orchestrated they are? do you think he has been working with foreign governments, or is that allegation to your view at this point also not clear? >> well, erin, the problem is i spent so many years up against the russians. and in that world, when someone goes to moscow they're presumed guilty, not the other way around, presumed innocent. so i always look at it from a counter intelligence perspective. and i wish he hadn't gone to moscow. i wish he would have made his protest on the steps of the capitol or the supreme court. or going to china as well. it's the same thing. it's a perception that he's a defector. there's no evidence that he is. but i can assure you that the fbi and the cia are looking at that possibility. but again there's no evidence. >> two very strong views. of course, as always, appreciate your feedback to our viewers. thanks very much to bob and ray. >>> up next

. >> the national security agency took the unusual step thursday of denying a report that'ves drop on the vatican phone calls and may have tapped in on pope francis before he was elected. what are you making up? is this a church, state issue? >> you got in on the consistent, the ones that depict the new pope, john? >> who knows. saved a lot of money. those guys have not done anything that was not known to the national security council and the white house and the idea of blaming these guys who are doing the job they were signed to do and oh my goodness, for miss feinstein, that there's a touch of hypocrisy here. >> there's a lot of outrage. i'm with clapper on this issue as well. i mean, i think because of the technological advances and the fact that we can now, you know, look in on people's cell phones, that you know, there has to be some more guidelines brought into this thing. but overall, friends spy on friends, it's not going to stop. >> what do you think of that? >> i think, well, i'm not enough people, clearly. there's no doubt that this has been going on for ever in one form or

said -- >> the national security agency does not target the vatican. assertions that the n.s.a. has targeted the vatican published in it will italy's pano rama are not true. we now know that the spy agency has monitored the communications of 35 different world leaders along with many of the citizens in their respective countries. here to give us a little more insight on how the church was responding to the allegations, i was joined by jimmy aiken. i started by asking him how detrimental this was with u.s. relations with the vatican. >> i don't think they're particularly detrimental. the attitude that father lombardi displayed in his statement i think is pretty cal of what you would expect. -- pretty typical of what you would expect. the italian press is pretty rumor fed. you can't place any confidence in what it says normally. but in this case, we know that all the major world powers spy on all the other major world powers all the time. i don't think the report is particularly endowed. i would assume na that the -- that the n.s.a. is spying on every country like. >> i mean, what

revelations about the national security agency and spying on foreign allied leaders has been embarrassing for the obama administration at a time when it hardly needs more bad news. is it more than an embarrassment? should it raise alarms abroad and at home? at first glance this is a story that is less about ethics and more about power. the great power gap between the united states and other countries even rich european ones. the most illuminating response came from the former foreign minister of france. he said in a radio interview, let's be honest we eavesdrop too. everyone is listening to everyone else. he went on to add we don't have the same means as the united states which makes us jealous. america spends tens of billions of dollars on intelligence collection. it's hard to get data to make good comparisons but it is safe to assume that washington's intelligence budget dwarfs that of other countries just as it does with defense spending. it is particularly strange that this rift should develop between the united states and its closest allies in europe. it was predictable and in fact i

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this lawsuit against the national security agency the n.s.a. for the repeated surveillance that they engaged in not only against greenpeace but a range of other human rights and other. citizen groups in the united states let's talk about the article coming out what message was greenpeace trying to send by borning as oil rig and what's the current status of the activists in russia. well arctic serves as a frigid a.t.m. the condition of the planet it placing credibly important role in climate regulation and furthermore. the only reason why we can even consider drilling there is because we have burned so much of oil coal and gas that has led to the arctic sea ice actually melting however if there was a spill in this part of the world it would be incredibly difficult virtually impossible and there's no track record of any company in the world to clean up an oil spill in such icy conditions essentially they're all could be locked in the ice in the sea for more than six months causing devastating consequences now. as far as the article goes this part

this lawsuit against the national security agency the n.s.a. for the repeated surveillance that they engaged in not only against greenpeace but a range of other human rights and other. citizen groups in the united states let's talk about the article coming out what message was greenpeace trying to send by borning as oil rig and what's the current status of the activists in russia. well the arctic serves as a producer a term a condition of the planet it placing credibly important role in climate regulation and furthermore. the only reason why we can even consider drilling there is because we have burned so much of oil coal and gas that has led to the arctic sea ice actually melting however if there was the oil spill in this part of the world it would be incredibly difficult virtually impossible. and there's no track record of any company in the world to clean up an oil spill in such icy conditions essentially the orld could be locked in the ice in the sea for more than six months causing devastating consequences now. as far as the arctic ocean g

this lawsuit against the national security agency the n.s.a. for the repeated surveillance that they engaged in not only against greenpeace but a range of other human rights and other. citizen groups in the united states let's talk about the article coming out what message was greenpeace trying to send by borning as oil rig and what's the current status of the activists in russia. well the arctic serves as a generator in the condition of the planet it placing credibly important role in climate regulation and furthermore. the only reason why we can even consider drilling there is because we have burned so much of oil coal and gas that has led to the arctic sea ice actually melting however if there was a school in this part of the world it would be incredibly difficult virtually impossible. and there's no track record of any company in the world to clean up an oil spill in such icy conditions essentially the orld could be locked in the ice in the sea for more than six months causing devastating consequences now. as far as the article goes this pa

this lawsuit against the national security agency the n.s.a. for the repeated surveillance that they engaged in not only against greenpeace but a range of other human rights and other. citizen groups in the united states let's talk about the article coming out what message was greenpeace trying to send by borning as oil rig and what's the current status of the activists in russia. well the arctic serves as a producer a term a condition of the planet it placing credibly important role in climate regulation and furthermore. the only reason why we can even consider drilling there is because we have burned so much of oil coal and gas that has led to the arctic sea ice actually melting however if there was a school in this part of the world it would be incredibly difficult virtually impossible. and these no track record of any company in the world to clean up an oil spill in such icy conditions essentially the orld could be locked in the ice in the sea for more than six months causing devastating consequences now. as far as the article goes this par

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we begin tonight with the latest revelation to leak regarding the national security agency and italian magazine called an around the is now reporting that the spy agency has targeted the internal communications at the vatican along with the in going and outgoing phone calls a future pope francis' according to the reports the n.s.a. was intercepting calls from in and out of the rome residence where the cardinals stayed during the papal conclave additionally the magazine details how the n.s.a. has been categorizing those phone calls into everything from foreign policy objectives to threats to the financial system that it can spokesman father federico lombardi quickly dismissed these allegations and said quote we don't know anything about this and in any case we don't have any concerns about it the n.s.a. is also responded. the allegations by saying that quote the national security agency does not target the vatican assertions that the n.s.a. has targeted the vatican published in italy's panorama magazine are not true however this article comes in the wake of a damning report based on doc

olson was the general counsel for the national security agency, and the deputy assistant attorney general for the national security division. again, thank you for joining us today. we welcome your testimony. going to turn over to you and mr. secretary, if you'd like to lead us off and after you're finished your testimonies, we'll get into a good conversation. please proceed. thank you all again for joining us. >> thank you, chairman carper and ranking member coburn, and the members of the committee for the opportunity to be here to testify. i would also like to thank my co-panelists, directors come and also for the partnership and strong collaboration as we together meet the shared responsibility keep the american people safe. before i begin my testimony, i'd like to urge you all and the senate to confirm jeh johnson as my replacement and confirm nominee. i've known him for a long time and i know he cares deeply about our mission. and i think he is considerable skill and intellect and, dedication to deal with these evolving threats. senator coburn, i appreciate your remarks to him yesterd

known who's who's running the show the country's leadership seems to be unclear on what its national security agencyis doing we report on a bit later here on. the syrian government dismantle its chemical production facilities for the disarmament process hangs in the balance some rebel groups continue to defy the deal. and water.

that is why we have so many people that are in the national security agency.ost: stories this morning about edward snowden asking for clemency from washington. one of the right of said this "my government continues to seek to criminalize speech as a felony -- host: what you think should happen with edward snowden? guest: we have laws in this country on classification, and it is very simple. we do not want to give our playbook to the other team. with that serious enemies out there in terms of terrorists who are trying to get on our shores and other strategic actors around the world, and we just don't want to be able to have them know what our plans and intentions are and how we are watching and monitoring these foreign actors. so that is why we have laws against leaking classified information, and so i think that acknowledgment that we had to be able to make her to no matter what you think of edward snowden, you have got to be able to have the ability as the u.s. government to protect certain categories of information. you think he will make it back to the u.s.

equivalent of the cia, but he had been with gch wildcats, which is the british equivalent of the national security agency, and indeed not long before his death, he had been in the states working with the national security agency, who have asked that no details of his involvement come to lite. it is truly one of the most amazing things. >> do we have a cover up here? is that what is going on? well, there are quite a few people who say that this is almost impossible. outside the locked bag, he had lined up a number of data sticked. he has taken his i-phone and put it back to factory settings. there is also one aspect that has a lot of coverage in the united kingdom, he has something like $30,000 of ladies dresses, wigs, makeup, shoes and such like, and there is suggestions that he was an interested in bondage, and. >> oh my. >> and possibly from tran vestism. what else can we add to the mix, it is one of the most amazing. >> glen moore, you didn't answer my question, but i like the description of the details, in this case. he is a british intelligence expert. joining us from amsterdam. pleasure talking to

. >>> yahoo is responding to reports about national security agency spying with plans to expand their data encryption. the ceo promised to encrypt all information by the end of march and promised to work with international mail partners to ensure the accounts are encrypted. >>> the national security agency is being allowed to continued to collect telephone records. the petition was filed by the privacy information center. it accused a court of improperly authorizing the government to collect phone records. >>> the two daughters of dick cheney have gone public with their disagreement over same- sex same-sex marriage -- marriages. their parents issued a statement saying they regret the disagreement is public. >>> u.s. attorney general eric holder is urging congress to reenact a law featuring plastic, futuristic looking guns. he said they could slip through security. right now there is a law banning them but it expires december 9. a bill has been introduced to extend the law but advocates are vowing to fight it. >> the government has no business knowing who has what gun. whether it is vi

have known who's running the show the country's leadership seems to be unclear on what its national security agency is doing and as we reported later here on the program. the syrian government dismantles its chemical production facilities but the disarmament process hangs in the balance and some rebel groups continue to defy the deal.

last week the former national security agency contractor appealed for clemency and said he was readyto testify to congress about u.s. surveillance . but on sunday lawmakers flatly rejected his offer. , ife had an opportunity what he was was a whistleblower, to pick up the phone and call the house committee, the senate intelligence committee, and say, look, i have some information that i -- that you want to see. that did not happen. now he has done this in almost a service to our country. >> a view shared by the chairman of the house intelligence committee. >> he does need to own up to what he has done, and if he wants to talk through why he did those things, that would be the appropriate time and the appropriate way to do it. >> a white house adviser said snowden's, t request is not under investigation. snowden has been granted temporary asylum in russia, but there are growing calls for him to be given refuge in germany after he revealed claims that the nsa tapped the phone of chancellor angela merkel. pierre limiter -- p aaron a lemaitre hasre won the literature prize prix goncourt.

. >> there is another new report on the national security agency today. and italian magazine called panorama reports the nsa may have spied on the pope. and some cardinals. sources at the magazine have been told the nsa eavesdropped on vatican phone calls before the conclave, that top secret meeting of cardinals. >> #01: folks. i am a devout catholic but i believe the nsa must spy on the vatican, they are tapping the direct line to god. and as i have pointed out, this guy has got a beard, spent a lot of time in the middle east and i keep hearing he has got some "plan" that for some reason always involves your grandpa dying. but sadly, sadly, there are misguided critics out there who value something more than total operational and situational awareness. let's go down. >> utterly out of control. >> there has to be a balance between privacy and security. >> the united states has simply got the balance wrong. too much invasion of privacy in the pursuit of security. >> #01:. >> come on what is the big deal about a government invasion of privacy, at this point

at first he defended the national security agency's programs, but said the white house concluded thateviews and changes are needed. >> in some cases i acknowledge, as has the president, some of these actions went too far. we'll make sure it doesn't happen in the future. >> this weekend john kerry is beginning a 9-day trip to europe and the middle east. he is expected to have talks with syria, nuclear talks with iran and u.s. aid to egypt. >> anyone with kids knows the temptation to bribe them to get them to behave in a certain way, as opposed to telling them to do it. in alaska, one school is bribing student just to get them to classes. educators have not tried this and don't know yet if it will help. a lot are paying attention. >> there's a different early morning buzz in anchorage schools - more hustle at ag diamond's high to avoid the tardy table. perfect attendance means more? >> kids are talking about it. community members are talking about it. i hear it on radio. >> they are talking about the free car, the $24,000 prize for being here every day. >> a free car, that's a reason to

the vet after a round of revelations about the national security agency. we have this report. >> these are the slides leaked by whistle blower edward snowden in june revealing u.s. authorities are demanding internet companies hand them user information. as long as the national security agency or the fbi are 51% sure that the user is foreign, their emails, audio and video chats, photographs and documents are theirs for the searching. carefully worded denils follow from the companies, arguing that they only give specific information to the u.s. government as legally required on a case by case basis. these assurances have been left irrelevant sholling the number of sa -- showing the nsa has bypassed this, breaking into googles and yahoo!'s cables. citizens no longer receive protection awes all information is -- as all information is considered foreign. >> the government backs into the cables as a backdoor to get around the complaints. >> one thing is clear - any data protections that do exist are only for u.s. citizens. >> if you are not a citizen, if you are

as i mentioned, served as general counsel of the national security agency. it is an extraordinary agency and it is an agency that is committed. and using director comey's words, obsessed with compliance but they have a chief compliance officer. i haven't inspector general, general counsel's office. -- leadership on down stresses the importance of complying with the law and the privacy of americans. they follow the law when it comes to the collection of information about u.s. persons. they do not indiscriminately collect information around the world. they serve to protect american lives. and that is what i saw when i serve there. >> thank you. let's turn to the issue of dirty that could use a radiological material. could sicken a lot of people, could cause a significant psychological and really economic damage on a community. the nuclear regulatory commission, department of energy's national nuclear security administration, responsible for the security a radiological sources. auditeve there was a gao that revealed the u.s. medical facilities that house those m

who's who's running the show the country's leadership seems to be rather unclear on what the national security agency is actually doing as we report later here on the program. the syrian government dismantles its chemical production facilities for the disarmament process in the balance some groups continue to defy the deal.

. >>> and google's executive chairman is lambing the national security agency. he says they allegedly spied on his company's data centers. telling the adjourn the allegations are outrageous, google has registered complaints with nsa, as well as president obama and members of congress. edward snowden said the agency broke into google and yahoo's information centers. >>> memberships of the gop are taking sides. as patty culhane shows us, an election in alabama defines the sides. >> omar gets to work, trying to define the soul of the renal party. he calls himself a true believer, his cause, teapt, the most conservative faction of the republican party. >> it will be a godly country, a country that god can look down on and say, i'm proud of this country but right now i don't think he's doing that. i don't think he's proud of the way we conducted business. >> he's campaigning outside the debate for this man candidate dean young, promising to change washington confrontation. >> i can tell you now that barack obama does not want me to go to washington because we don't h

. >>> the united states faces growing criticism national security agency's targeted spying. however an alliance was formed after world war two that excluded five countries. it was called five eyes which includes britain, australia, new zealand and canada. 9 officials said other allies including japan and germany have been subject to u.s. surveillance programs. the source added that u.s. surveillance gathering facilities are located at the country's military bases and embassies around the world. "the washington post" said the nsa collected information from the google and yahoo! data centers worldwide. is they posted that the infiltration was on wednesday by edward snowden. and by tapping into the links, the nsa has positioned itself to collect data from hundreds of millions of user accounts, this would include e-mails sent and received as well as text, audio and video. the post says that during a 30-day period up to january 9th of this year, the nsa used the links to collect more than 180 million new records. google said it is outraged at the lengths to which the government s

itself to secrecy in the growth of executive secrecy the central intelligence agency the national security agency all the agencies that form this very top heavy intelligence program how much can any one president change that after after the motion is. not a whole lot but it does have to do with attitudes too and what you can. try in a sense remember obama said he wanted to change the mindset he not only wanted to change getting into the war why we got into the iraq war but the mindset that got us into the iraq war and many people assume that meant he was going to change some of the basic american foreign policies that george bush did push the limit well certainly did change the minds now were completely detached from any sort of warfare or foreign policy that were perpetrated around the world i want to get into this your book you know focuses on how u.s. foreign policy has evolved since world war two in defining technological solutions to political problems i mean what interests you think have driven u.s. policy toward that direction. i think i mean america has always going way back to the. prior

brian becker national coordinator of the antelope coalition thank you so much well american spy agencies have been in the spotlight over the past few months with the heads of the national security agency and the national intelligence agency in the hot seat multiple times over the past two months to publicly face up to allegations that they've been overreaching in their surveillance efforts today began a new chapter in britain's investigation into how their country spy agencies are cooperating with foreign intelligence agencies like the u.s. now in their first joint public hearing the heads of britain's three intelligence agencies were faced with questions from parliament artie's sarah furthur has more. well of course the session coming as a sensitive time for the government and those intelligence agencies on the back of the edward snowden revelations now we saw these three spy chief being questioned over a broad range of issues but i'm going to take if you like to the see saw the t.c.h. key chiefs in love and he was asked why it was necessary for the majority to have intelligence gathered in the attempts to catch the minority that are doing wrong and he answered that with an an

yahoo says it's taken the steps after the report the national security agency has been hacking into communication lines of its data centers. the report says the nsa was looking for information about what people do and say online. >>> california is bucking a national trend on gas prices. our prices continue to slip as they started to inch up across the rest of the country. in san fransisco gas is down $3.68 for a gallon of regular. it's about 3.55 around the rest of the bay area. that's down $0.04 a gallon from last week. the national average is up $0.04 in the last week at 3.21 a gallon. >> did you see those prices? >> yes. >> so do i. >>> time now 5:5 #. a bay area mom comes out swinging against kids she calls bullies. why she says the attack on her teenage daughter will not stay a secret and why she wants a worldwide audience. >> plus a new kind of airport security has a plan to make travelers safer and also is causing a lot of confusion. [ male announcer ] some things are simply better at home. like the enticing aroma and distinctive taste of nespresso. elegant capsules meet masterfully crafte