in fact, the nsa is wrong arguing the nsa act exempts the agency entirely from foia. the nsa failed to conduct adequate search for records in response to my request and perhaps most basically, they're not refusing to release records. they are saying that it would violate national security to even confirm or deny the existence of records will stop and whether or not the release my violate national security, my attorney and i intend to argue that simply confirming the existence or denying the existence of the records with silly be within the balance of the freedom of information act. >> i want to turn to president obama following nelson mandela's death last year. president obama referenced mandela's time in jail during his speech at the memorial. >> he would endure a brutal imprisonment that began in the time of kennedy and khrushchev, and reached the final days of the cold war emerging from prison without the force of arms , like abraham lincoln, would pull his country together when it threatened to break apart. box while obama referenced the kennedy administration and

i sat down with eric schmidt and asked him about the nsa. the state of google's relationship with the nsa ? >> what relationship? they didn't knock. they didn't call. they didn't send a letter. they just visited. >> do you believe him? >> i definitely believe he is telling the truth. whatever -- what i don't believe is the staff having an direction with intelligence agencies. he is not in those discussions so he does not have a clue about them. purity andthat with truth. >> you think google did know and didn' help? intot me break companies different groups. tele-communications companies, the parties that do business with the federal government knew they were subject to disclosure and they had to do it. bys is handled down low compliance people. it did not tend to get to the top because it wasn't a public issue. was not aware of that in the telecommunications part of the world. runningxtent that he is something that has no government business and doesn't actually direct with the government, that is just a problem that has to be covered under,

for a long time, nsa stood for no such agency, or never say anything. a lot of what happens here was never talked about, until recently. welcome to "special report." a special edition tonight, bringing you an exclusive look behind the scenes at the national security agency. we're coming to you tonight from the director's office, and joining us now, the 16th nsa director, general keith alexander, a man wrapping up his tenure as director of the world's largest intelligence service. thanks for having us. >> thank you, bret. >> general, "new york times" today, the front page here, president obama will seek limits for nsa on call records. backs a wide overhaul. agencies bulk collection would end, new role for judges. knowing what you know, what's coming down the pike for your agency? >> i think a couple things, with respect to the business record, fisa section 215. we had an opportunity over the last couple of months to work with the interagency to figure out what are the best options for our country? to address the civil liberties and privacy concerns that

the nsa has been collaborating with u.s. technology companies to weaken the security of the products the sell to consumers. the issue here really is, you know, in the 1940's when the u.s. government was breaking the encryption used by the german government, the enigma machine, at that point there were special encryption technologies used by governments. today that is not really the case. there are really that many. today consumers, government, but that doesn't good guys all use the same technology. there are no drug dealers sell phones. lawyers, doctors, journalists, human-rights activists and criminals will use the same technology. what that means is for an essay have the capability to spy on the truly worst of the worst, the people they need to be targeting the also necessarily need to have the capability is buy up people who are doing nothing wrong, obeying the law, people just going about their daily lives and to have a reasonable expectation of privacy. what that means is the nsa has been trying to make it easier to hav

google's eric schmidt meets with president obama to talk about nsa surveillance. and weighing in on the nsa revelations. then we will talk about the wordprocessing app, quip. blocked access to twitter in turkey. this is after ignoring a court order to remove content. many are outraged. many feel that the president circumvented the block and tweeted that the ban is unacceptable. there will be a more personalized app. it will be from the career history, seniority, and connections to show more relevant articles. it will be released in the third quarter. microsoft outlines its policy on when it can search user e-mail accounts after revelations that it scanned the e-mails of a blogger who had microsoft trade secrets. microsoft will not search e-mails unless there would be a court order. even if the search takes place, it will only look at relevant information. now to the top story of the day. tech executives, including eric schmidt, are meeting with president obama today at the white house to talk about the nsa and government surveillance. marissa mayer was also invite

the nsa talks about priority missions. in your opinion, does this include a serious commitment to safety and security? >> let me try and answer your question in a number of ways. first of all, with respect to oversight, i don't think anybody on the panel wants to reduce the effectiveness of oversight. review say that in our of the performance of the oversight function with in the doe, despite a large number of people at each of the field offices, we have really evolved over time into a transactional compliance checklist-based culture which, frankly, is both inefficient and not very effect did. the issue is not more oversight or less oversight in terms of bodies as much as it is better oversight and better ways to do oversight. >> that would be my question. how would we go about really getting to the oversight that we need? if you lookegree, at the current performance elements today, a lot of the laboratories and the sites are graded on non-mission related functions. norm mentioned one organization had 80% of the fee associ

havetwo huge possibilities -- cyber command and an essay. -- and nsa. in your organization, are you going to have or contemplate or have now principal deputies that would essentially focus exclusively on one or the other? >> yes, sir, each organization has its own deputy and a complete operational organization. -- at there is no changes this time? >in those deputies? u.s. cybersay the changing in the course of the next few months but that is part of a normal routine. >> and part of the normal rotation. let me change gears. we have all recognized the growing importance of cyber in every capacity. i think the lessons of history suggest that the more we practice, the better we are when the game starts. to my mind, i don't think we have had the kind of coordinated exercises between cyber command, nsa, homeland security and every other agency which basically would give us -- confirm what we believe it may be surprises about what we don't know. is that your impression? >> i think we have done a good job of exercising within the

and the nsa invoted the nsa act of 1959 -- i'm sorry the nsa invoked the espionage act of 1917 to denyy request. and this is the same act in which chelsea manning was convicted. >> so professor, whether or not they are going to give these records to ryan, shouldn't these agencies at least be able to confirm or deny whether these records exist? >> the answer is probably twofold. as a general matter agencies are obligated to both identify responsive records and release non-exempt portions of them. there is a major exception, and it is known as glowmarization in which the see can take the position that the abstract existence or non-existence of a document is a classified fact. i'm very familiar with that because i went to court on the first several judgments. it's a legitimate concept in general, but whether it has been properly applied is a different matter. >> our community is tuning in . . . >> public information requests which are a little different -- >> well, that's his comment. and brad tweeted check this out -- >> yeah. obliterat obliterated. here is another one doj information. a

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the nsa response to this call. recent media reports that alleged nsa has said that the alleged nsa has infected millions of computers around the world with malware and the nsa is impersonating us social media or other websites are inaccurate and a state uses his technical capabilities on the to support lawful and appropriate foreign intelligence operations. all of which must be carried out in strict accordance with its authorities might say facebook says they knew nothing about it. marks out of it. however on his facebook page writes that he's been so confused and frustrated by the repeated reports of the behavior of the us government. i need goes on to say when facebook's engineers work tirelessly to improve security we imagined but protecting you against criminals not our own government. while many internet users now shaped chair mark zuckerberg is confusion. although it's not clear what they can do. if anything if they can do anything about it other than keeping their shirt on inside of their webcams home. now t

both the house and senate intelligence committees love the nsa and knew about most of what the nsa was doing long before the rest of us did. the senate intelligence committee is shed by diane, a senator from california, super in love with the nsa. on the house side, the chair is a republican. this is not as simple an issue as looking at the color of blue or red and saying, ok, my member is good or bad on the issue. you really need to look on the website of your respective member of congress and senator and figure out where they stand. as a rule of thumb, the more extreme your member is, the more likely they are to be pro-privacy and pro-surveillance. we tend to find people in the center who are more pro-surveillance and pro-national security. it is unfortunate but that is where we are. host: here is the story from today's "the new york times." the story talks about some of the controversy surrounding the nsa, especially in the wake of edward snowden's disclosure. the man chosen by mr. obama to navigate the bureaucratic and public relations disaster is admiral rodgers, who on tuesday wi

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can you control the nsa to any degree?t: you are looking at somebody that has refused to give carte blanche -- i'll give you an example. passssed the patriot will the patriot law a few days after 9/11. everybody's hair was on fire, we had to do something. it is not necessarily the right thing to do. we continue to have that law and then we find out that within the law we gave some ability for intel people to do things, but they have taken it even further, and behind closed doors are doing even more. now we know that they are. of it always been leery because i could not get them to tell me what they are doing, or conflicting statements -- you are asking different people, trying to connect the job -- connect the dots. in many cases, they refuse to talk to many of us. are wen you are asking doing oversight, we are trying to do oversight. is it overwhelming and do they pushback? yes. how could you be asking questions about things you do ?ot know exist they could tell you we do not do anything like that, and later you find out

i am not against the nsa per se. i am for the process, the due process of law, that protects your rights. generalized warrants that do not name an individual and seek to get millions of records, it goes against the very fabric of the fourth amendment. some say the protest against general warrants was really the spark that got things going. i find it ironic that the first african-american president has without compunction about this vast exercise of raw power by -- allowed this the nsa. certainly, j edgar hoover's illegal spying on martin luther king and others in the civil rights movement should give us all pause. now, if president obama were here he would say he is not j edgar hoover, which is certainly true, but power must be restrained, because no one knows who will next hold that power. if government were always as madison put it comprised of , angels, we would not need restraint, but as we know, government is often not comprised of angels. the government says the nsa program has been approved by 15 judges. right

and what additional measures should the senate, or the nsa, take? >> sir, i think it is step in the right direction. but i do believe in the end, a form of legislation that is addressing the requirement and the need to share information as well as the addressing the issues of setting standard for critical infrastructure for the nation in the long run is the right answer. if confirmed i look forward to work wilderness generati working with host of other people. >> i agree legislation will be strongly. there are bipartisan efforts to to achieve this. and some have been opposed by the representatives of the business community on the ground there is no need or urgency or other reasons i think are species. i look forward to working with you. how urgent do you think it is we have this legislation? >> the sooner the better. it is only a matter of time before we start to see more destruction activity. >> are there areas of the private industry you are concerned about that you regard as most vulnerable? >> there is core infrastructure that is critical as a n

coming up, the data collection deal for the nsa. willrogers from michigan come on and talk about that. it is a bipartisan nsa bill and we will fill you in on all the details, what exactly they're listening to and what they are not. about also going to talk ,hat is going on in the ukraine what he is telling vladimir putin, backup or it will cost you. we will tell you all about what is going on in that breaking malaysian flight 370, what we have got there. i want to go over to julie. >> let's start with carnival, the cruise line company that suffered from a lot of corporations lows. the company beat estimates and narrowed its forecast for the year and brought down the top and. it will seesays higher costs and lower ticket prices fear that we'll be eating into its bottom line and the stock today. walgreen actually missed forecast.or share the numbers reported for last quarter. set in the second half of the --r it would be closing boots are going to be higher than anticipated. that seems to be pushing the shares higher. american apparel

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that's how we do it at nsa.i think that's the other agencies do it as well. >> different agencies decide how to interpret? >> again, -- >> asked what should be massed and what shouldn't? >> in the 70 to context is part of the minimization procedures. >> so what does that tell me? >> specifically as to whether or not and what circumstances it's not massed, that's up to each agency or not? >> it's done on an agency by agency bases. >> generally speaking i think the minimization rules of each agency generally would not permit you to disseminate u.s. person information where that is not a to foreign intelligence or necessary to understand that foreign intelligence. so in other words, or evidence of a crime for fbi, so in other words, if it's joe smith and his name is necessary, if i'm passing it to the foreign government and its key vendors and that it is joe smith because that's relevant to understanding what the threat is or what information is complexities a cyber hacker or whatever and this kid is information th

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the nsa is denying this. we are seeing a much more public mark zuckerberg on us. march 28, next friday, the president will be receiving recommendations on what to do with all of that bulk metadata. he will be getting that from his administration. he will have to figure out what to do with that. this conversation could shape his decision. you mentioned three executives, among them marissa mayer, did not attend the meeting that the president is hosting? >> yes, and yahoo! was pretty open about that. saying it did not work out with her schedule, it was very last-minute, and saying yahoo! is a company would be front and center. >> not showing up for a meeting with the president. is that normal? if the president wants to chat with you, doesn't it seem like you would make yourself available? >> they do move on a quick timeline. she was amongst with -- she was amongst a group of ceo's who did visit with the president in december. notably zuckerberg was not at that one. facebook was represented by sheryl sandberg at that meeting. when it comes to twitter, sticking to peop

it was called prism and it was in this internal slideshow from the nsa. it turned out to be the name of that database they had all this information residing in after it got to the nsa. they were also surprised it was being reported. there was a massive amount of data. that mystery persisted for a few months, until they learned there was another major source, a bigger source of information from the servers, the company storehouses of information about you and me and everyone else through the nsa, which the nsa was also intercepting traffic circulated among the different databases -- data centers of the company where they store -- store information. google has multiple data centers and do not talk to each other. the nsa was basically tapping into that and getting the information there and collect in it. host: were the tech companies giving the information or was the u.s. government taking it? guest: both. there is one slide that talks about the downstream method, which means asking -- actually compelling the companies to give information that they asked abo

up,echnical capacity goes the nsa will be growing these programs.we are already aware of one data center being built in utah which will have a very large capacity to store this type of communication. we will need to look to read -- legal restrictions to minimize this collection, rather than technical ones. >> ashkan how does the conversation go with the u.s. government and "washington post" that themake the case phone calls are monitored? >> i cannot get too much into the details but typically there is a conversation on both sides, the editors, writers, government, all way-in on what they think is important to cover. we thought our representation, our highlighting of these ongoing -- and it is it is in place still. we wanted to raise policy issues associated with bulk content collection without necessarily blowing the capability that the government currently has. >> were you able to tell to what degree the nsa needed cooperation or complicity by the telecommunications companies that were providing these services? >> i cannot get into how and where.

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but nsa held them. a lot of civil libertarians were concerned not because they had been abused but because of the potential for abuse. what we get now is nsa doesn't hold it. the telephone companies hold it. nsa gets to query the data and here they get to query the data in ex-husband sieve way not one-third they got. if you look at that the data in house bill it actually talks about all communications. nsa's able to query not just telephone data but digital or e-mail metadata, too. we've arrived at a solution that actually makes us more safe and gets people higher comfort that government would not have viewed. >> schieffer: how can the telephone company do a better job of keeping it safe than united states government? >> there's a difference between the government holding the data which creates the possibility of abuse by the government and the government not holding the data which obviously doesn't create that possibility. the phone companies have held this data all along there's no additional risk. >>

. >>> thanks for coming back, moments ago nsa whistleblower edward snowden wrapped up of his first live video appearance in austin, texas. moments ago he said this. take a listen. >> the nsa, this sort of global mass surveillance that's occurring in all of these countries, not just the u.s., and important to remember this is a global issue. they are setting fire to the future of the internet and the people who are in this room now, you guys are all the firefighters. and we need you to help us fix this. >> nbc's sara dollof has more

he said to the nsa that he doesn't want the nsa to keep the data, but he wants others to keep the datare working on what the choices are. i will take the president's word, again, that he is trying to actually address this in the balance between interests. in the book, we say quite a bit about this, and in particular, we say, in a democracy, democracies will have this debate, especially now that we know it is going on, and we will find the right balance. let me give you an example. if i wander around and i asked the question, what rights or privacy would an american give up if there were a horrific terrorist attack once a year, once every few years? just 10 people hurt? the average americans is to me, yeah, i'm fine with this. if you ask the same question in germany, the answer is, we are not fine with it. if you ask the same question in britain, they say, why are you asking the question? what is the problem. if you ask the question of israel, they say, what planet are you on? these are all strong, functioning democracies with different cultural values for all sorts of reasons. in the b

one of the important things we discussed, the nsa and edward snowden.ake a listen. >> what is the state of google's relationship with the nsa? >> what relationship? >> it is not even complicated? >> they didn't knock, they didn't call, they didn't send a letter. they just visited. [laughter] >> the latest revelations from snowden that the nsa colluded with the british to intercept and safe images and chats, what are the chances that happened to google video chat? >> we're looking forward to more disclosures from the nsa on this matter. >> you guys have gotten together with a bunch of different technologies to petition changes in washington. how optimistic are you that congress is going to do what you want them to? >> what the nsa is doing is covered under section 215. it is known as the business record act. and through a series of legal arguments that allows them to record every phone call you make, by their own admission --in order to target one suspected terrorist out of 33 million people. i will let you determine if that is an appropriate use of powe

we have thelieve nsa capabilities in effect in september of 2001 that we have today and is there a high likelihood we would have intercepted the attack of 9/11? >> the potential would have been much greater. >> as we reform the program, will you stay in the forefront of your thinking not to take us back to pre-9/11 capabilities? >> yes, sir. >>>> when it comes to monitoring content of an american citizen on the phone, the nsa program is very restricted in that regard, is that a true statement? >> very restrictive, sir. >> that the threat we face is very real. are you familiar with major assan? >> at fort hood.

after all, the fisa court oversight of nsa is a joke as is the senate and house intelligence committees. those people have no way of verifying what nsa is telling them. >> there have been reveal questions raised by the transparency of those courts and we'll watch closely to see whether that's a subject of

there are standards in place for querying that information for nsa. such a query when talking about prison collection must be reasonably likely. in order to disseminate information, and from publicly available procedures. >> at a high level, i think, you have to think about a new and special category of information. they are acquired pursuant to lawful process. we will query that and look through when something comes in and look through collected materials. and deal with what we have and move forward as expeditiously as possible. a new category of information is off limits. and pretend to fully understand the implications, the couple that come to mind will be delayed. you have additional processes you have to go through and some emergency carve out and so on. you have to factor in the reality to lay into the system. there is a gap, several types of gaps, the disinclination for people who don't have facts. -- some type of connection with the we have and look at normally in this material and other types of material. and create a blind spot and intellige

i am not against the nsa per se.but i am for the process, the due process of law, that protects your rights. generalized warrants that do not name an individual and seek to get millions of records, it goes against the very fabric of the fourth amendment. some say the protest against best james otis, his protest against generalized warrants was really the spark that got things going. i find it ironic that the first african-american president has without compunction about this vast exercise of raw power by -- the nsa. certainly, j edgar hoover's illegal spying on martin luther king and others in the civil rights movement should give us all pause. now, if president obama were here he would say he is not j edgar hoover, which is certainly true, but power must be restrained, because no one knows who will next hold that power. as madison put it, if government were always comprised of angels, we would not need restraint, but as we know, government is often not comprised of angels. the government says the nsa program has bee

many were angry about the nsa story. have you fixed the relationships with these leaders and the second question is, many are shocked by the extent of which the nsa collects private data. today, we read in "the new york times" that you plan to end the systematic collection of data of americans but can you address the concerns of the dutch and the rest of the world about their privacy? >> first of all, we have had a consistent, unbreakable bond between the leaders of europe over the last several decades. it's across many dimensions, economic, military, counter terrorism, cultural. any one issue can be an irritant in the relationship between the countries but it doesn't define those relationships. that continues to be the case and that has been the case throughout the last couple of years. as i setd in a spooech i gave earlier thisser yoo, the united states is very proud of its record of working with countries around the world to prevent terrorism or nuclear proliferation or human trafficking or a whole host of issues that

all the information will be held by the phone companies rather than the nsa. edwards doesn't leak the news media and to repeal the nsa currently stores the telephone numbers call times and dates. not content to five years meanwhile the house intelligence committee released its own bill today called the end of book collection. it also keeps the records at the front companies but doesn't need prior permission from a judge to begin collecting data all the pending legislation would need to be approved by congress before it's put into place. so it was for fun on the horizon. what other efforts are being made to assuage skeptics to be controversial collection for data. i was doing earlier by former c i a analyst rain cover first asked him for his opinion on president obama is remarks made earlier that day and see performs his cousin had this. bring the receipt and see. to be skeptical of government and to be skeptical and put a quarter of a us intelligence services and so it's gonna be necessary for us this week it was announced today. a good example of costly syste

iswhat the nsa is doing covered under section 215.he race section of legal -- their series of legal arguments that allows them to record every phone call you make, by their -- i will let you anermine if that is a -- appropriate use of power. the group that google was a part of took the position that this meta-data collection was not necessary, that there were other ways of achieving their goals. issue of collecting data was problematic because of leaking. tell, theyan announced a committee which i am on, to try to figure out what to do. thepresident does not want nsa to keep the data, but he wants others to keep it. i will take the president's word as sincere that he was trying to address this in the balance between interests. in the book, we say quite a bit about this area in particular, in a democracy, democracies will have this debate, especially since we notice going on, and we will find the right balance of interest. if i wander around in america and i asked the question, what rights or privacy with an american give up if there w

the nsa intended to make this program secret forever. over the revelations of last year, before the senate intelligence committee, the director of national intelligence james clapper was asked by senator ron wyden, are you collecting data on millions of americans? moreover, senator wyden had issued that question 24 hours in advance so he could deliberate on it. mr. clapper answered no. a clearly perjurious statement. you are talking about the rule of law? in a democracy the people have a right to know what their government is doing, because we get to decide what the policy is going to be. and when the snowden revelations came forth, the american people have forced changes from what the nsa was doing on a because of mr. snowden's revelations. this cannot not be found without the revelations because before that because of speculations, it would have been thrown out of court. you're just guessing that the government is doing this to you. he needed a rule of law function which was nonfunctioning before that time. i wanted to say about all th

has this been addressed within nsa? havegenerally, does nsa the necessary expertise to valuate the performance and oppose those from the country there's? -- contractors? >> the answer is no, the capability does not exist today. one of the things that has happened is that that responsibility for the mission on nsa has the separated from you important supported functions. the person in charge of producing a weapon should also have part of the doctor produced the weapon and do it environmentally safely. taken over the latter issues. that should be embraced. a separation of responsibilities. that leads to great bureaucracy, delay. add thatd only although we haven't seen wayificant changes in the oversight is done and it is still pretty much a transactional compliance based, there is a major initiative the number ofduce performance element factors that an focusare awarded on on mission elements rather than non-mission related elements. i think it is too early to say how successful that initiative will be. clearly there is a

they would only take over from the nsa if legally required. >> shocking now numbers shedding light on the american's national security committee. more than 5 million people held secretary clearances last year and that is more than the population of norway. and up for 4.9 million in 2012. 60 million had access to confidential information. and background checks were held by companies and fugitive leader edward snowden. we'll have more just ahead. >>> crews hoping to resume the search for flight 370 called off today because of rough weather. they will have help from high-tech equipment including the u.s. navy that listens to signals from the black boxes. they will be on stand by until the crash site can be found. jennifer hello. >> reporter: bill, chinese government officials demand that the malaysian government share with them satellite image row and other evidence that they have that no one survived. >> we are highly concern canned about the fact that the malaysians site announced a conclug. we appealed to malaysia information. >> reporter: they stated there was additional sent from th

just the contrast fbi and nsa use information in different ways. the fbi has more latitude with respect to u.s. personal information, criminal activity and evidence of a crime that the nsa which does not have that law enforcement mission. it's important to have differences between the agencies in terms of how they handle information. >> and is it the practice that all information that is collected under a 702 is subjective minimization procedures? some questions have been raised, some comments were submitted as to whether information would be considered communication that will be subject to minimization, or an approach that all information collected under seven of two is subject. >> all u.s. personal affirmation is subject. >> i believe my time has expired >> first of all, thanks to all of you for being here this morning. we appreciate your taking the time to make yourself available. i want to continue in the fourth amendment discussion. could one of you explain the process, both inside the executive branch and then with the court of conducting the