but as the n.s.a. admitted due to massive electrical problems at the utah data center the agency missed their scheduled september twenty fourth completion date and dedication ceremony yes a series of very costly electrical problems have crippled the billion dollar plus facility there have been more than ten electrical meltdowns occurring there in the past year and it's unclear just what the problem is but again this proves there are physical limitations to what the n.s.a. is trying to do with their digital collection that's why similar construction projects at n.s.a. facilities have been basically ongoing since nine eleven the n.s.a.'s headquarters in fort meade maryland is already grown to be larger than the pentagon and will be fifty percent bigger when construction is done there in the next decade it is safe sites in texas and colorado and georgia and in utah have also been expanded more physical space to collect more digital data you can almost think of it as one of the n.s.a.'s few weaknesses afte

the n.s.a. and g.c. h.q. just cannot find the talent that is good enough to spy without having back doors and they'd need the back door open because their lame lame spot. we have to decode some of the phrases you hear from people who say they want to feel safe or that you have to decode that understand what people are actually saying is they want to be dependent on the government more because they're lazy and the result is obvious because you just look at the average american for example there are obviously a product of laziness the fact that they've gotten into a state of being where they are obese and stupid that's the result of laziness not they don't feel more secure so let's be clear about what they're really saying well i think also if you're you know as chris hedges said to be more human you need to rebel against this but i think in a way because the corporations have so atomized us and make made us like just anonymous colleagues in this big machine in a way i think a lot of people feel quite more human

director keith alexander he asked this quote how does the n.s.a. spying or is the n.s.a. currently spying on members of congress or other american elected officials sam do you expect alexander to answer that question honestly given his track record and based on the disclosures that we've seen so far from the n.s.a. or the u.s. has a pretty tricky way of talking to members of congress will say something in public in public letters and then you may remember ron wyden asked collecting cell site location data. we're not currently doing that but you might want to see the classified addendum for another search to that question but this is a pretty simple question yes they are spying because senator sanders goes on letter to say by spying i mean are you collecting metadata on personal phone calls yes they're spying on everybody they're collecting all everyone's metadata in the united states pretty much so that's a pretty easy way the cloud. respond to that now that it's the new york times and the guardian published calling for clemency for edward snowden yesterday have elected of

the n.s.a. sweeping surveillance did nothing to prevent the bombings in boston last year even despite multiple tips from abroad concerning one of the perpetrators the president's own surveillance policy review board has concluded the n.s.a. bulk data collection was quote not essential to preventing attacks the head of the n.s.a. was eventually pressed to admit that the government had exaggerated the effectiveness of the program would you grant the fifty four cases you keep getting cited by the administration or not all plots how the verge of all of my thirteen and some nexus of us do you agree with that yes or no. yes the obama administration found itself in hot water when edward snowden revealed that the n.s.a. was busy spying on allies and trading partners and not just terrorists the n.s.a. has built a vast new center you talk to store people's private data and much of it will have nothing to do with terry's what we're doing is said to catering to tele tarion procedures which is gathering infor

of a company and if i don't play ball with the n.s.a. they're going to do all these terrible things to me and to my company under the patriot act and so i'm just going to you know go along to get along. i think i could i could understand how people would do it i mean i don't approve i think it's a really bad choice and i think you know later when you look back on it i think many of the c.e.o.'s what we would read it that they they they were part of the problem and sort of being part of the solution but but i would think i've seen that she owes who don't cooperate will be pressured maybe into bankruptcy by the very same government. sure but in the old days we would call those people traitors and then they would be executed yeah but now we have a kind of foreign to any more americans become a fat lazy going to jump in no good dick all right let's move on. tell us about turmoil in turbine and why anyone with dignity and self-respect would want to hide i guess is part of the question but tell us about turmoil in turbine so i don't even know a

well while congress and the n.s.a. try to figure out what to do to address the concerns of their constituents when it comes to spying it appears that the behind the leaks edward snowden is growing in popularity among average americans take a look at this poll from quinnipiac university fifty seven percent of those polled think edward snowden is a whistleblower while thirty four percent see him as a traitor he has gained international notoriety as a result of his leaks and it turns out the more information that comes out about the n.s.a. the more popular edward snowden becomes also out this week the freedom of the press foundation announced that mr snowden will be joining their board of their nonprofit organization it's a group that was started by the man who leaked the pentagon papers daniel ellsberg i spoke with jesselyn radack the national security and human rights director of the government accountability project just a short time ago and i first asked her what snowden will be doing for the freedom of the press found

the n.s.a. spying has been a constant i think since the birth of jennifer genesis and i say the only difference only delta is that it's been made public you know snow and stones revelations and you know his revelations weren't much of a revelation you know the specific things that he least you know were educational to me but it's not as if i was surprised again the n.s.a. is a spy agency they spy you know and they don't spy if you know if you like them or if they like you you know they strong organizations so i doubt very seriously and i don't have inside a trap i'm using is common sense here not you i doubt very seriously if they are just pushing on google or just pushing on microsoft and the large corporate entity that has access to a large amount of data the n.s.a. has compromised even voluntarily with companies permission or by force let's let me let me kind of circle back to the big point for a second because as you pointed out with google glass the n.s.a. spying on you but in turn your spyi

and agencies from cooperating with the n.s.a. those of violate the rules would be slapped with sanctions and a press release senator ted lieu who introduced the bill says quote state funded public resources should not be going toward aiding the n.s.a. or any other federal agency from indiscriminate spying on its own citizens and gathering electronic met electronic or metadata that violates the fourth amendment for more on the bill that takes a firm stance against the feds i spoke with to head to tar executive director of the bill of rights defense committee my first answer if he could talk more about the goal of this bill. the goal of the bill is to force accountability on the n.s.a. the courts have abdicated their role of sensually of guarding constitutional rights congress has been abysmally dysfunctional and guarding the constitution and passing either legislative checks to restrain executive abuses or effect conducting effective oversight this bill is a state taking the matter into its own hands and it aims to cut off the wate

what's your reaction well in fact the n.s.a. in own internal audit found thousands of abuses by n.s.a. and i say employees when it came to using this data and they saw that there was very there was a lack of oversight and management at the n.s.a. most of the abuse had to do with employees spying on former lovers you know out of revenge and so forth not necessarily the type of surveillance that we're fearful the government might be imposing on us as american innocent citizens but i think rand paul as well as edward snowden at least in this narrow sense of the n.s.a. surveilling american innocent american citizens on a massive scale is a very worthy topic of debate and of reform rigidity of things snowden has hurt the obama administration oh no i wouldn't say that he's hurt the about ministration i said would he's hurt all americans by sort of revealing our international foreign secrets of who were for who were spying on foreign in the in the foreign arena i think he's heard it he said our credibility and the president's credibilit

n.s.a. spying this time on climate negotiators the leaked documents show that the n.s.a. spied on delegates to the two thousand and nine climate conference in copenhagen this comes as one u.s. senator is planning to file a class action lawsuit against the n.s.a. details later in the show. it's there is a january thirtieth for him in washington d.c. and you're a david and you're watching r t america. we begin today with breaking news the justice department has notified a federal judge and intends to seek the death penalty for dzhokhar star nah it now will only be the case if a jury convicts are naive for last april bomb attacks at the boston marathon the attacks which took place nine months ago left three people dead and two hundred sixty wounded talents are naive dzhokhar has a brother who allegedly perpetrated the attack was killed in a confrontation with police in the days following the bombing now let's bring in our marina porn i had to discuss this a little bit more rina how did the justice department come to the decision that the death penalty was appropriate in this

is not going to spy on its friends and allies anymore but you did insist that the efforts that the n.s.a. has made over the past decade have prevented multiple attacks and saved innocent lives around the world but a study actually released this week by the new american foundation actually concluded the opposite it found that the bulk data collection by the n.s.a. has had no discernible impact preventing acts of terrorism researchers at the new american foundation actually analyzed two hundred twenty five terrorism cases in the u.s. post nine eleven and found that an essay met a data program this controversial program helped provide evidence to initiate only one case out of two hundred and twenty five so right now that obama can make whatever claims he wants but the study and the research is not supporting his words about himself new york thank you very much for the. so then president obama described his reforms as colin created a substantial this is what he had to say it's more of. i am therefore ordering a transition there was an end of the section to fifteen bulk metadata program as it

n.s.a. contractor edward snowden comes forward as the source of the recent n.s.a. stories he's left the united states and is in hong kong he says he's a whistleblower and he's handed over his trove of evidence to journalists the public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong snowden is later forced to hide out in russia as over the next six months the world's newspapers begin publishing the n.s.a.'s and g.c.a. chuse most closely guarded secrets dragnet surveillance on entire foreign populations targeted surveillance on diplomats and world leaders including key allies the black budget of the u.s. intelligence agencies the deliberate tapping of under seize fiber optic cables a commitment to breaking in corruption standards we also learned that the n.s.a. has secretly hacked into google and yahoo is data links barton gellman calls this the most explosive story and it's a was breaking into the data links the private cleone the links between for example to google data centers this one in finland and one in. and they are intercepting the dat

the n.s.a. sweeping surveillance did nothing to prevent the bombings in boston last year even despite multiple tips from abroad concerning one of the perpetrators the president's own surveillance policy review board has concluded the n.s.a. bulk data collection was quote not essential to preventing attacks the head of the n.s.a. was eventually pressed to admit that the government had exaggerated the effectiveness of the program would you grant that fifty four cases to keep getting signed by the administration are all plots how the village of four hundred thirteen had some nexus of us do you agree with that yes or no yes the obama administration found itself in hot water when edward snowden revealed going is said to caving to tell a tarion procedures which is gathering information about all the individuals in the world. thousands have been taking to the streets to protest against. hi b.c. many americans thought at least they'd be safe but with recent revelations even that tradeoff is on the questi

new leadership at the n.s.a. amid all the mass surveillance scandals we now know who will likely leave the intelligence agency this comes as one u.s. senator is planning to file a class action lawsuit against the n.s.a. more just ahead death row for the boston bomber prosecutors in the case against dzhokhar have decided to seek the death penalty a report on the decision ahead. and fighting in syria has created extremists and not just in syria that's all according to a top u.s. intelligence official more on that and an exclusive look at a syrian city captured by islamists later in the show. it's thursday january thirtieth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm your i david and you're watching r.t. america. and we begin tonight with the news that the obama administration has decided on the next head of the national security agency the department of defense has announced that navy vice admiral michael rogers will take the place of general keith alexander last year alexander announced he would retire the spring of twenty fou

as your senator i'll make the n.s.a. stop checking your emails behind your back let's ban warrantless wiretapping we can do this. several months ago congressman holt announced a bill called the surveillance state repeal act which offers massive reforms congressman holt joins me now to talk all things n.s.a. and by the way he's also a rocket scientist so hopefully he can help us understand these more complex revelations like quantum computing for instance congressman paul thank you so much for joining me good to be with you as a journalist it feel like we are reporting on a new n.s.a. leak each day what have you what are your thoughts on these recent revelations has any of them surprised you well another day another revelation first of all i should say it lest your viewers be confused i am no longer a candidate for the senate but you're right i did make stopping this warrantless spying on americans. a platform of my campaign and i do think that this is a real transgression and these recent revelations that you talk about a

and president obama says his much anticipated plans to reform the n.s.a. are a step in the right direction but critics dismiss proposals as a p.r. stunt that leaves you money enters the questions and much of the agency's operations untouched. stories and plenty more a click away at our t.v. dot com report coming your way next stay with us. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser robots are increasingly able to do menial labor from flipping hamburgers picking lettuce making cars to mating with the consequently vascular demand but there is a media or of technology heading our way right now that will finally make extinct are corrupt too big to fail banks and finance dinosaurs yes the bitcoin media your is going to smash the fire sector finance insurance real estate all these middlemen gone like the t.-rex sting by you know. max keiser were in twenty fourteen and twenty fourteen is going to show the true power of the block sheen that is where all of the energy of this meteor called big corn is big coin two point zero explained colored coins versus massaquoi

obama's speech on the n.s.a. was met with criticism in some of the countries spied on germany's justice minister said a written agreement is needed to stop it he was supported to by a brazilian lawmaker who believes the u.s. has little respect for international partners also comment coming into from one european m.p. believing washington just paying lip service to make people feel better. real thing that the american people are looking for is what are you going to do when you have a whistleblower like mr snowden who has critical information that the american people have a right to know he did not address that issue it's being swept under the rug instead i think in a fair view of what's going on it is merely window dressing covering up the abuses that have been identified who's to say there are a lot more abuses that have occurred that haven't been identified because there's no channel for the n.s.a. whistleblower to make their allegations public or known in any way so at best it's window dressing it's punts a lot

collects and processes and it's the it's not simply the n.s.a. that's engaged in data collection i mean it's also the d.n.a. and it's the f.b.i. and to a certain extent it's the cia although their domestic concerns are a little limited the. thing that i would have liked to see more of and that i think went unaddressed when we focus on metadata collection is internet surveillance and it's incursions surveillance and it's sort of the convergence between multiple technologies together when we focus only on metadata collection of the call records you know and we sort of lose the bigger net that is also being cast simultaneously now throughout the speech president obama was trying to balance between defending the n.s.a. and reforming it now i want to play a part of where he's talking about the steps that he had taken in the past to keep the surveillance apparatus is in check and then i'll get your opinions ok we increased oversight and lot of it including new structures aimed at compliance improved rules were proposed by the government and approved by

and agencies from cooperating with the n.s.a. those that violate the rules would be slapped with sanctions and a press release senator ted lieu who introduced the bill says quote state funded public resources should not be going toward aiding the n.s.a. or any other federal agency from indiscriminate spying on its own citizens and gathering electronic or metadata that violates the fourth amendment for more of the bill that takes a firm stance against the feds i spoke with shad butare executive director of the bill of defense bill of rights defense committee. goal of the bill is to force accountability on the n.s.a. the courts have abdicated their role of centrally of guarding constitutional rights congress has been abysmally dysfunctional and guarding the constitution and passing either legislative checks to restrain executive abuses or effect conducting effective oversight this bill is a state taking the matter into its own hands and it aims to cut off the water cut off the electricity cut off the prosecutors and cut off the univ

breaking encryption standards and ports that the n.s.a. has been breaking into the data links on google and yahoo servers while some specific reforms were introduced how exactly they will be implemented moving forward remains to be seen especially since the same government agencies that have overseen the massive growth of the surveillance state are now the ones tasked with reining it in in washington d.c. same sex are to. and michael cohen president and general counsel for the nationalists the center says major issues and one of the loops in the president's speech the real thing that the american people are looking for is what are you going to do when you have a whistleblower like mr snowden who has critical information that the american people have a right to know he did not address that issue it's being swept under the rug instead i think in a fair view of what's going on it is merely window dressing covering up the abuses that have been identified who's to say there are a lot more abuses have occurred that haven't been identified because

obama's speech on the n.s.a. was met with criticism in some of the countries spied upon germany's justice minister said a written agreement is necessary to stop it he was supported by a brazilian lawmaker who thinks the u.s. is the respect for international partners one year o.m. he thinks washington is paying lip service to make everybody feel better and blogger david swanson told us why he is among those left on satisfied by the president's address it wouldn't call it a reform i would call it the ongoing normalization of the outrageous policy of violating the fourth amendment on an enormous scale we're learning more as every week goes by about what they're collecting in terms of text messages and e-mails and mehta data and it's it's voluminous and the president is is not can admit in that anything has been done wrong is not proposing to stop doing it is not suggesting we restore the fourth amendment to the constitution he's suggesting that this will continue and it will be reformed perhaps in part someday but he

tonight president obama reduces curbs on the n.s.a.'s bulk phone data collection program but there's concern the surveillance isn't being scaled back enough and breaking news headlines now other headlines tonight syria says it's ready to unite with moderate rebel groups in the fight against hardline radicals in the country's foreign minister who syria moscow ahead of the peace talks. and scotland please stay britain's foreign secretary is on the charm offensive to convince undecided scots not to quit as the months stick to a decisive referendum. they were giving she is just past nine pm here in moscow big news from washington tonight that within the past few minutes president obama has finished in fact has been outlining reforms about america's controversial surveillance tactics which it ensnared millions of people's phone calls texts and e-mails around the globe after praising the n.s.a. and its importance to security admitted the mistakes had been made its collection of private data to report has been listening in to what barack obama