will this give americans more confidence in the nsa? >> i think that's the important point. the mission that he set when he created the review panel was not to reform the nsa in any meaningful way. it was to restore public confidence, to make it seem for palatable. it's a way to make it seem like there is review when reality there is won't be. what the nsa does and how invasive it is, they will need more than a pretty speech by president obama to make it as though the concerns have been addressed. >> it appears the president is largely in favor of the idea of change but it looks like a lot of these programs are going to stay in place. if you were making the call, what would it be? >> i think there is a real question about whether or not we ought to have a government that is collecting literally billions of pieces of data every single day about the communications we engage in every day, the messages online and not just here in the united states but around the world. ultimately real reform means are we going to dismantle this machinery that has been constructed in the dark in

the nsa does what it wants. this is the first time since the wiretapping scandal of the bush administration and before that, the scandals that involved the church committee -- led to the beenh committee, there has almost no pushback on nsa spying. with regards to the comments of -- of spying as much as possible in the u.s., that is the attitude used in the stasi. -- in the stasi period. protect the country because everybody may be a danger. so they eavesdropped on everybody's communications. and you can see where east germany went. you cannot have that in a country like this. there are certain dangers. safer way would be to have unannounced visits by the week, searching for prohibited items or whatever. but who wants that? if you want safety on the highway we can reduce the speed .imit to 30 miles per hour but we don't do that because you have to accept some risk in a democracy the north have freedom -- in a democracy in order to have freedom. from twitter -- it was a secret until snowden came along. the taxpayer

. >> yes, exploding with a lot of a cynicism and skeptism about the reforms for the nsa. national security is a smoke screen and offering a reason why the president is offering reforms, hell have no furry. if the american people can tap obama's personal calls i'm okay with the nsa tapping mine. but in the minority is all nonsense. >> i don't about tapping the president's phone calls, but quite concerned about the nsa tapping members of congress's phone calls. >> and our phone calls are pretty tapped. >> president obama is working on recommendations to the nsa reform and the efforts are coming after exposing the surveillance information. the files revealed how the government collects phone data and taps into the internet providers and spies on the world leaders and this is concerning for the privacy advocates and the nsa is saying that the programs are nothing to fear, they are not monitoring the phone calls or your emails. they are helping to connect the dots of those wanting to harm americans. >> 46 possible nsa reforms outlined this week and recommendations it says will

so does the nsa. >> welcome back, we're talking to journalist, glen greenwald about the scope of the nsa program. and recently it was exposed as a government online agent with world war games, and their mission to try to community with the guys. and it's unclear if any useable information came from this. so glen, what was the information from the surveillance that you were parley disturbed by that came out in the nsa documents that got lost in the snowden story? >> i think that the underlying point is the most important win, which is the the goal of the nsa is to eliminate privacy globally by trying to collect all forms of communications. so the story that you just referenced, when someone said, why would they want to try to infiltrate video games in and the reason is simple. they want to infiltrate everywhere. and the scope and the limitness of what they want to achieve and are close to achieving is far and away most disturbing. but their methods of being able tto insert malware on computers x. being able to see every keystroke. >> laptops ordered online, is that right? >> and they d

another story said that they were were working with the nsa to track traffic around the globe and the nsa had secretly helped fund the british surveillance reports. this august the "washington post" reported that an internal audit showed the agency has broken its own privacy regulations more than 2700 times. president obama announced a new review of the nsa but insisted that edward snowden was no patriot. >> mr. snowden had been charged with three felonies. if in fact he believes that what he did was right, then like every american citizen, we can come here, appear before the court with a lawyer, and make his case. >> reporter: the embare are asments for the obama administration continued. in october a german newspaper reported that snowden documents appeared to kate that u.s. intelligence agencies had been listening to cell phone calls of the german channel lor. and then the "washington post" reported that the nsa tapped into the main communication centers for yahoo and google. the story underscored the ability to spy on tech powerhouses without their knowledge. snowden told the "was

now the nsa is reportedly developing what's called a quantum computer. when it's complete, it will be able to break just about any encryption in the world. >> when nsa gets that quantum computer, what will it then do? >> the quantum computer will be a game-changer. it will allow the nsa to break the codes that foreign governments use. >> reporter: they'll also be able to break into the encryption codes we all use to break into our bank accounts, medical records. a privacy advocate says that would leads into a world with no secrets. >> we don't know, in fact, what capabilities there are, what steps are zbik taken to undermine the types of encryption we might use when we purchase a book or download a user. >> reporter: it's revealed in documents provided by nsa leaker edward snowden and reported by the "washington post." how would the super computer work? when the regular computer tries to solve a problem it has to go through at least one solution one by one by one. it simultaneously tries every possibility. according to documents the quantum computer is be

now you know, how a special blue the whistle on the nsa. into the data banks of silicon valley giants, and the private communication he of millions of citizens around the world. by getting the story that glen greenwald got, snowden through carefully selected media outlets in germany france and brazil among many others. snowden has yet to come in from the cold. he's lying low in wintery moscow but according to the journalists involved, this story is far from resolved. there are more coming. our starting point, the adopted home of american journalist glen greenwald, rio de janeiro, brazil. >> i had been contacted in december 2012, by someone who didn't identify himself but had interested material he thought hiwould want to look at. so i said send me something. he sent me encrypted documents. i immediately knew this was one of the most important security leaks in history. i had been working on surveillance issues and suddenly in my lap had dropped some of the most potent instruments for shining a light on what they were doing, beyond your wilde

it's following months of reports that the nsa spies on its allies and collects data worldwide including on americans. national security protecting this country from another terrorist attack. mike is at the white house, and have you been given any insight as to what the president will say? >> there have been rules on the briefing, and we can't talk about the details, it's embargoed in the parl wants of washington, but the thing that you need to look at, the metadata collection, the most controversial one from edward snowden, that came through the course of last year. what will he do about it? we know that his own administration came back with they hold the data itself. but not going forward. we know it's not enough for many advocates, many civil libertarians in this country, and where will the president go on that? where will he go with the so-called national security letters issued by the fbi to the communications companies requesting information without any sort of judicial review? will there be constraints on that as well? and back to the metadata collection, will there be review for

democratic congressman rush holt propose his own bill for reading and the nsa. we don't want those who are doing a surveillance to be the very same ones who decide who the bad guys are decide what to do with the nsa has diluted the usual partisan rivalry between democrats and republicans with bills the sanding this is the aunts and calls to restrain coming from both sides. just a mac who campaigns for government accountability doesn't believe that any of the proposed changes will make a genuine difference. so far what has been telecast through government leaks look alot like a lot of cosmetic changes in other words it does not a theory that had the president will be bringing in the largest controversy which is probably the full collection of american data on nor will he be adopting any recommendation to house and story that data in for example a telephone company rather than on by the national security agency again i think a lot of these changes are or are you really just cosmetic in their contrary to what his own internal review panel recommended. the global spr

director keith alexander key this quote how the nsa spying or is the nsa currently spying on members of congress or other american elected officials seem to expect. alexander to answer that question honestly given its track record and it's on the disclosures that we've seen so far from the nsa will this has a pretty tricky with top members of congress will say something in and letters in the end. mayor ron wyden announced it would take like the cell site location data and the nsa writes back and we're not currently doing a give way when it should be classified a tandem for another answer to that question. this is a pretty simple question yes they are spine because of sen sanders whose own letter to say by spying on me. are you collecting headed out on a personal phone calls. yes their spy on everybody there collecting on everyone's mad about it in the united states pretty much soaked. that's a pretty easy way that the opportunity to respond to that held the same york times and guardian published calling for clemency fredericks noted yesterday elected officials in the u s policy in th

the nsa does what it wants. this is the first time since the wiretapping scandal of the bush administration and before that, the scandals that involved the church committee -- led to the beenh committee, there has almost no pushback on nsa spying. with regards to the comments of -- of spying as much as possible in the u.s., that is the attitude used in the stasi. -- in the stasi period. protect the country because everybody may be a danger. so they eavesdropped on everybody's communications. and you can see where east germany went. you cannot have that in a country like this. there are certain dangers. safer way would be to have unannounced visits by the week, searching for prohibited items or whatever. but who wants that? if you want safety on the highway we can reduce the speed .imit to 30 miles per hour but we don't do that because you have to accept some risk in a democracy the north have freedom -- in a democracy in order to have freedom. from twitter -- it was a secret until snowden came along. the taxpayer

this follows months of revelations that the nsa spied on world leaders and routinely collected data on millions of people. the u.n. says four employees are missing after a deadline attack on a restaurant in the afghan capital, kabul. authorities say 16 people were killed. the taliban has issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attack, a document obtained by the associated press shows that in just two years, pope benedict xvi, defract nearly 400 children -- defrocked nearly 40 people on how they are handling sexual abuse. >> the company blamed for tainting the water supply for hundreds of thousands of vest virginiaages. freedom industries faces several investigations after last week's chemical spill near charleston. water restrictions put into place have been lifted for most residents. fire fighters say they have stopped the spread after 1700 acre wildfire near los angeles. severely dry weather helped it grow quickly and the governor declared a drought emergency. "inside story" is up next. >> security surveillance is not going away. there will be newspaper rules in place. the

i actually had concluded the opp a city founded the ball the collection by the nsa. no discernible impact on preventing acts of terror attempt to right now obama can make whatever means he wants but this study and the research is not supporting his words. a coastal new york city that will present a balanced diet is reforms is concrete and substantial. and therefore will bring a transition the wall and the section to fifteen ball meditative program as it currently exists. presidents much anticipated speech to the mcp pushing for that crucial intelligence reforms that some of this mission to find out what activist blogger david swanson still think that obama spoke of both the joys that life. other things to do something with this would you agree that ofcom has an essay or a full busy day to enter the date substantial as people they own all. i would not i 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. it is sucking up data on the people who for whom there is no probable

it's the nsa itself. ents, there is the recognition that collecting metadata is the supreme priority of the agency, not because it protects people's privacy but precisely because it enables the nsa to invade people's privacy more effectively than the interception of content. and i think sometimes it's difficult to understand that in the abstract, but it's easy to understand when concrete examples are used. and so if you can imagine, for example, a woman who decides that she wants to get an abortion, if you're listening in on her phone call, what you will hear is her calling the clinic on the clinical and with a generic sounding name, like the site clinic or something like that, you will hear the woman who you decided to target for surveillance ask for an appointment tuesday at 2:00, get the appointment and think of the phone and you have no idea why she called or even what kind of clinic she called or what the purpose was. but if you're collecting her metadata you will see the phone number that she called.

i mean i'm sure the nsa will say look we don't. we we don't. older the better you know we are no protection of civil liberties to other people around the world. although i would hope that the united states sets a good example everywhere around the world and that day a week in the united states. all actions of all government agencies are bound by our constitution. i spoke to you a few months ago about the nsa and more specifically about the bill that you had introduced any updates on that hill. well a few more co sponsors. i wouldn't say it's close to becoming law. i wish it would be. it does several things. it grants whistleblower protection to members the intelligence community as things currently stand of most federal employees have protection against retribution if they expose waste fraud abuse of power of the not so with members of the intelligence community. my legislation would fix that. it would prevent the nsa or any similar agency from installing back doors and hardware or software in other words to um to prevent them from undermining t

that the men and women of the nsa are patriots. that 215 program was legal and fully authorized and there wasn't any abuse. and the program needs to continue for the protection of the nation. that's one thing he said. the other thing he said was that there is a potential risk here to privacy and civil liberties that we need to take seriously. american history has plenty of examples of why we need to take it seriously. and i think the changes that he announced were significant. some of them will take some time to be implemented but some of them are in place today as we speak right here and one is the requirement to get a court order to query the 215 database. i think the real challenge going forward, bob, is that there are many ways to square this circle. there are many ways to accomplish both the national security piece of this and privacy and civil liberties piece. some of those ways will put one of those two more at risk than the other. i think the challenge here is for the administration and the congress to find the best approach

and the nsa was secretly help to go pay for it. in august the "washington post" audit showed the agency had broken its own privacy regulations more than 2700 times. president obama announced a new review of the nsa but insisted that edward snowden was no patriot. >> mr. snowdon has been charged with three felonies. he can come here and appear before the court with a lawyer and make his case. >> reporter: the embarrassments for the obama administration continue. in october a german newspaper reported that snowden documents appeared to indicate the listening of calls by angela merkel, and then yahoo and google and the ability to spy on tech powerhouses without their knowledge. at the end of the year snowden told the "washington post" that he had already won because his many leaks created a public debate. snowdon took a thousand pages of classified documents that he plans to keep feed together media to keep the pressure on the government going. >> earlier i spoke with journalist glen greenwald, the first to receive the trove of info fr

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the government first officially recognized nsa back in 1952. it ever offered support to fighters during the korean war and monitored movements of russians during the cuban missile crisis in 1962. the agency is headquartered outside our nation's capitol in fort meade, maryland. jon: last june, former nsa contractor edward snowden began leaking details about the nsa secret spy programs including one that scoops up and stores phone records an internet data virtually every american. days after the first leak the obama administration opened a criminal investigation. on june 21st the justice department filed espionage charges against snowden. in august the fugitive-leaker received asylum in russia for one year. in october we learned the fed spied on dozens of world leaders including some of our closest allies. last month a presidential review panel offered 46 recommendations how to reform the way the agency operates. today the president will change which changes he wants to make. jenna: remarkable to think a few months ago none of this would have happ

but they go to the heart of what the nsa does these days. it will be interesting to see if they mention them in the speech. >> this came out in the 60 minutes piece. some conditional amnesty that david snowden has led? >> everyone i've spoken to in the white house and the administration has rejected that thought out of hand. they did not say they would not talk to them about some kind of deal but they believe that the precedent of giving him full amnesty and letting him walk in returns for getting their data back would set a bad precedent. and we don't know how much would be in the hands of others right now. >> finally, this. is the president talking about some kind of public advocate who will represent the cause of the libertarians and transparency and privacy? >> it looks very much like he will embrace that recommendation, the recommendation to allow someone to argue the other side of the cases in front of the fisa court, the surveillance court. it is interesting because we saw some pushback from the judiciary branch yesterday, they want th

so the idea of keeping it away from the nsa may sound good. but you could create a whole new set of problems. >> how secure is the new vault. >> now, the committee suggested, the outside committee that the president appointed, said just leave it with the companies. >> they don't want it. >> well, they don't want it. and also it's not clear how easy it would be to get there. so that's a real open question heading forward. >> and for the audience -- this is pretty arcane stuff. and when they talk about the national security letters, is that sort of a fancy term for, it's a subpoena without a judge. effectively, it's a subpoena, i just get to write, send and receive. what, effectively, did the president say about the national security letters, and just how much more strict they're going to become, if anything? >> right. we're going to try to do fewer, he said. and also we're going to put time limits on them. you know, we will get access for a certain defined period of time. but again, subpoenas are not an adversarial process in normal circumstance

they want the state of utah to turn off the tap on the nsa's water supply. to keep its equipment from overheating, the center needs nearly 6.5 thousand cubic meters of water every day to cool off its system. literally, the government could turn off the flow. >> it could not operate its servers, therefore they wouldn't be able to mine and store and sift through all of that data. >> caiflts plan to put a no cooperation with the nsa bill before the legislature in the future. similar bills are proposed in the states of california and washington. rob reynolds, dges had, utah. >>> slaves today are generally kidnapped deceived into working against their will and without pay. al jazeera's lisa bernard looks at a photographer. >> these are the face he of slaves, modern day slaves forced to work without pay, no power to walk away. they labor in gold mines in ga ghana, this child, kofi, worked at as a slave in a fish village in ghana, he was told solid as a slave and made to work hauling heavy fish nets. a claimed humanitarian photographer lisa documents their stories.

the committee also said that the. nsa should get out of the business of collecting and exploiting flaws in upon software, like microsoft windows that they use those in the attack in iran, for example, and these are not politically sensitive the way they are, the way the monitoring of telephone calls is, but they go to the heart of what the nsa does these days and it would be very interesting to see if he even mentions them in the course of the speech. >> rose: the fifth idea that maybe they should grant, and this came out in the 60 minutes piece, some kind of conditional amnesty to edward snowden have legs? you know, everybody i have talked to at the white house and elsewhere in the administration has rejected that thought out of hahn. they haven't said they wouldn't talk to him about striking some kind of teal, but i think they believe that the precedent of giving him a full amnesty and letting him walk in return for getting their data back would set a bad precedent and of course we don't know how much of that data may b

the nsa surveillance and you that's the "inside story." ♪ ♪ >>> hello i am ray suarez. feel about edward snowden and what he did, there is one thing that can't be denied. he opened up the world of national security agency surveillance to public scrutiny. in the years after the september 11th terrorist attacks. government officials and elected officials have asked themselves and each other, sometimes even the rest of us, what does the united states have do to protect itself from conspiracy and attack? what works to thwart terrorist plan something what fits with our legal system, traditions, our liberties and expectations of privacy? and can you steer a path that passes all of those tests? edward snowden's theft and release of classified information has led to a national did h debate, a commisn report and soon to come a presidential response. after months of straddling the lines between privacy advocates, big internet firms and his own intelligent services, president obama will share his plans for the national security agency friday. according to a recent report from the

is it a victory for privacy advocates or the nsa? what are the interesting stew meat is this is just an executive document. this can be totally -- one of the interesting things to me is this is just an executive document. this can be totally changed with the next president. >> and a lot of these changes may never happen. one of the big takeaways, the government is being open to companies that ask for data like facebook, google, apple -- those companies can be more open and transparent. however the fbi can still ask for information and i can come with a gag order. so there is always a contingency here. >> talking about the contingencies -- jeffrey hayzlett, the former ceo of kodak. i know you are listening to the president's speech. or did you fall asleep? >> no, i did not fall asleep. we got caught with our hand in the hr. this is what every country is doing in the world. they are spying on us. we are spying on them. what he is trying to do is to position himself -- what can we do not to go all the way but stay more in the framework o

the nsa official that you just showed on the screen told 60 minutes that he would consider a plea bargainemency in exchange for assurances that the data that's been captured by snowden is now secure. what's fascinating is the government really has no idea of exactly what he has, and they're worried what else might be out there, and i think if you look at most people, they regard snowden maybe not heroic whistleblower but not a trader who should spend the rest of his life in jail. i think there's plenty of room for negotiation and there's three more years before the president leaves office. >> the guy broke the law, broke faith with the american people, with the nation. he committed the crime and he ought to do the time. if the president gave clemency or a pardonnen to snowden you'd have resignation through the national security agency. >> nobody's talking about a pardon. >> and i think you'd have a firestorm and among some grass root democrats as well and would put at risk the democratic candidate in 2016 if hillary clinton approved of any kind of pardon. >> nobody's talking about a par t

things seemed to have grown at the nsa. think it was disturbing to most people, and i think he found it disturbing. the president followed a similar scripts her upon being faced with significant an embarrassing failure previously. he knew nothing about any of it. you recall the pattern. hhs secretary plan the president had no knowledge until the side launched on october 1st and then immediately crashed and crashed badly. she plans no one told the president about the numerous failed test runs, including a failed test just two weeks before launch. president obama landreau last year that he did not know the irs was targeting conservative groups until he read about it in a newspaper. >> love me make surei answer a specific question. i can assure you that i certainly did not know anything about the zero ig report before it had been leaked through press lou: white house press spokesman said four ays later white house officials eleed no to tell the predent about the report. the white house said it had no idea that attorney general

forwilling to assume, purposes of this discussion with the men and women that work at the nsa have nothing but our and it -- best interests at heart. that might not be the case a year from now, or four years from now, or 10 years ago, or 40 years from now. we've seen this movie before, we know how it ends, if that information stays with government for that long of it will be abused, manipulated for partisan and other nefarious purposes. we cannot let that happen. let's start with professor stone. be something that you would describe as one of the most compelling arguments in favor of putting more robust restrictions a loss so they are not simply in the hands of people? >> this is our right very concerned with the collection -- primary concern with the collection of metadata. the risk that somewhere down the road someone will figure out how abuse this. the safeguards that are in place now are rigorous, there are checks and balances, there is the inspector general, the attorney general, the fisa court, all of them are over this. even so, our judgment is that it should be taken out of the han

the document reveals that the nsa plan to do this to gain advantage. it's as leaders in negotiating teams from around the world was undoubtedly the engaging in intense last minute policy formulated. and at that time it will be holding sidebar come discussions with their counterparts details of which are of great interest for policymakers. and while some are concerned about the surveillance of the us is conducting a broad others here in washington are focused on the nsa surveillance of americans and back senator ran all is planning to file a class action lawsuit against the nsa. speaking at the state of the net conference in washington dc this week. he said the administration's increasing transparency is only the first step toward reform. next step is is a constitutional eclectic with a single war to verizon. can you collect a hundred million people's records. my answer is no you cannot and should name the person before them an incision and the person so what i think and i think it's also good for your business model throughout their support going the ne

one wall will or will the coming up on our team stopping the nsa. california lawmakers propose a bill to curb and as a seal bay the bell block state agencies from cooperating with the nsa will other states jolene and a staffer to stop government spy the latest greatest wish for privacy. i had. and all of the us war in iraq and did two years ago. alcan has taken over the city of falluja. the us is sending drones to the iraqi government but not troops for now. what this means for the reject coming on. did you hear about the polar for attacks. it's from the tv this week you've seen the mainstream media obsessing over the cold will take a look at how the media has made this cold weather hot story later and share a fan. my day in january he liked me and here in washington dc. i'm reservoir and you're watching rte the fall out from the everett second revelation is contained units at most some of the most significant changes could first be happening in the states and california state lawmakers have introduced a bill that would ban state agencies from workin

the nsa is not listening to american phone calls. l they are doing is they are taking the reports from the phone kl companies, phone number to phone number. no names, no addresses, no content. the only time they can -- those numbers can even be looked at is if a foreign terrorists makes a call into the united states, then the nsa can find out what number they called. then they have to go to court so that the fbi and the justice department can get a warrant to listen to those calls. rand paul does not know what it's talking about. rand paul is spreading fear among the american people and i understand he was comparing general clappett to snowden. to me, he's either totally uninformed or he's part of the hateful people spreading misperception and absolute lies, to be honest with you. >> are you 100% sure that the nsa is doing nothing more than collecting phone numbers and only when they find a tie to a terrorist group or person out of the country they are then getting a warrant from the secret court to look further? >> yes. they can look

you have talked a lot about the nsa. getting to your point about the difference between intelligence and whatnot. this morning, i heard only about 10 minutes. i was driving. but richard clarke described the fact that what they are doing with the nsa review panel was, number one, we had been asked to take a look at what intelligence we actually need. do second, we had been asked to look at how transparent we can be in getting the intelligence in a way that matches our democratic values in a democratic society. i did not hear much more. i really wonder given all we have talked about here, with the nsa review panel, are we on the right track? or is this going to deviate? maybe i would have found out if i heard the rest of the show. i look forward to hearing your views. >> i actually think that that review panel -- it is a fascinating report. one of the things we talk about. it is somebody called in and said the report was very glib. i responded, you appreciate one written in clear language. and easy to understand. that was a

coming off an artsy president obama tells us he wants to change the nsa surveillance program but are the proposed reforms that enough to silence critics of the latest just a hack. and iran suspends its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. could this temporary deal paved the way for a future trends. more on these developments coming up and the industry and leaving the city of angels for the city of san. what's behind the move out of los angeles. we'll speak with an adult entertainer later a shout. fan. january twenty oh five pm and washington d c i a mob and your art in america well ever since former contractor and were snowed in the one point seven eight million classified documents to the world is hearing the nsa is internal structure of president obama has been walking the fine line of political fallout. if each of the permanent justice last week the president finally address the issue and announced sweeping reforms to the way the national security agency collects digital information. the changes included some more oversight by the executive branch the working national

on national security, he let the nsa do whatever they wanted. that is completely opposite from the way he campaigned. i think that is disappointing to many of his supporters. host: and he is waiting in pennsylvania on the line for democrats. caller: good morning. i was just going to say about the same thing. i voted for president obama and the first term. in the second term, i -- the same thing. my comment was going to be that after the first term, he -- the media was supposed to be the watchdog. ignorede more or less the scandal and stuff that has gone on in this residency. -- i have great respect for your speaker. i was wondering what his thoughts were. ignoring fox and those places. what are his thoughts on the media and what they are ignoring? -- what are papers his thoughts on how the press is covering the root of all of the needs of what the press needs to do to cover things in this nsa controversy. thank you. guest: i agree 100%. the media has been very weak. i have been very critical of the media. i think that the mainstream media has lar

last fall the nsa director testified that week, the nsa, identify a number and we could give that to the fbi. probable get there cause, they could get the locational information they need. asking the nsa to clarify these are marks but it has not happened yet. to havebi required probable cause in order to cell siteericans' information for intelligence purposes? alln all -- almost circumstances we have to obtain a quarter to. we have to show relevance to the investigation. >> you do not have to show where

also, forget the nsa. i'll tell what you you might not about the tech company that makes all that have spying possible. and move over, new york wants a piece of that tech action. i'm ali velshi, and this is "real money." >> this is real money. you are the most important part of the show. join our conversation for the next half our on twitter or facebook. last week i told you about conflicting signals in our economy. today i'm going to give you a little more to choo on. every month thompson reuters comes up with a survey and it shows sentiment dropped in january. driving that dip are middle and lower income families concerned about jobs and pay. today we've got new figures showing more jobs openings in another than at any other time since 2008. now despite lots of other signs of a growing economy consumers are sending some different signals. despite what the national retail federation, which is the lobby group for retailers will tell you, this holiday season wasn't great. they expected sales to be 3.9% highe

do you think that the nsa will be able to hold on to all this material? orl there be a third party will be particular private companies have it and then the government have access to whatever wants or some kind of system like that? briefly, the irony that i find in this -- the net neutrality debate is talking about the evil telecom companies that are preying on us. i say, what about the government? i think there has been a misplacement of the real feels -- fears are. civil liberties organizations will redirect their energies to where the real concerns are. the data that has come forth has not been private companies that are harming the customers. it is maybe governments against citizens. >> what you think will happen? you think the nsa will be private -- deprived of all the material? or holding all the material? >> i'm not sure. >> anyone else? >> i don't mean this to be too snarky, but i will start with a start -- a snarky position that governments of foreign equivalents of the nsa will continue monitoring. it will allow our government to have some level

and the nsa was secretly helping to pay for it. the washington post reported the agency had broken its own privacy obligations more than 2700 times. president obama insisted edward snowden was no patriot. >> mr. snowden is accused of 27 felonies. he can appear here and make his case. >> in october a german newspaper reported that snowden documents appeared to indicate that u.s. intelligence agencies had been listening to cell phone calls of german chancellor angela merkel. then main communication links for yahoo and google. the story underscored the nsa's ability to spy on packed powerhouses without their knowledge. at the end of the year snowden told the washington post he had already won because as many leaks had fueled a vigorous and high profile public debate. david shuster, al jazeera. >> later on jake ward will show us how tech companies make money with your data online. >>> now to cyber-attacks. stores and commerce at risk as hackers continue to strike. mark schneider reports. >> it's looking more like target and neiman's are

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it is on the reality and the nsa reform. we will hold this record open for one week and thank you both, gentlemen. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> as congress begins consideration of the fiscal year 2014 omnibus spending bill, we are joined by eric watson of the hill. what are some of the details we should know about this bill? >> it is about $1 trillion in total. it pushes out the details of the murray budget pact. it was a true bipartisan cover my's. they worked to hash out the differences throughout the federal government, that includes compromises on what were originally 134 policy riders on everything from the post office, discontinuing saturday mail, to preventing the export-import bank from blocking funds. priorityan important for hal rogers. that was in the bill. the anger was not in the bill, there was no provision blocking funding for obamacare. downis the issue that shut the government for 16 days in october. conservatives can point

president obama expected to announce changes to the nsa's sweeping surveillance program. the address after new reports claiming the agency now collecting 200 million text messages every day from around the world. you can watch live right here at 11:00 am eastern time. >>> vice president biden push for most troops to be out offing afghanistan. american troops are set to withdraw from afghanistan by the end of this year, unless a new security agreement can be fined. >>> los angeles suburb had to be evacuated because of this wildfire burning out of control. in that blaze is now 30% contained and no longer spreading, but is still hot and dry. >>> at least 22 people were hurt in tyland after a an explosionive device went off. >>> those are your headlines i'm del walters in new york. hard t circumstances, but they certainly don't look good. >> mute waiting or mistreating the dead violates the laws of war according to the u.s. field manual, the u.s. instructors guide, and the u.s. naval handbook, not to mention the geneva convention. are our trooped this is something they could n

the nsa. trying to strike a balance between privacy, security, and politics. this is "special report." >>> good evening. i'm bret baier. president obama is trying to thread the needle tonight between civil libertarians at home and his counterparts around the world who want less government surveillance and the reality of living in a dangerous world. today, he unveiled a compromise which like so many others, satisfies few and leaves many complaining. chief white house correspondent ed henry has tonight's top story. >> it is not enough for leaders to say trust us. we won't abuse the data we collect. >> this was less about major change and more about president obama trying to reassure a public battered by a series of revelations. the speech delivered with the classic marks of the obama leadership style. stress he's heard all sides of the debate before deciding he's not really to decide. >> those who are troubled by our existing programs are not interested in repeating the tragedy of 9/11, and those

some monitor in ways the nsa never could. al jazeera science and technology correspondent jacob ward is live in san francisco. jacob, what have you discovered? >> reporter: >> reporter: well, tony, google, facebook and the thousands of other startups that seek to join their ranks every year are already doing everything that a sur vail answer state could possibly want. they are monitoring our behavior and communications and moment by moment actions in every room of the house. >> edward snowden's leaks continue to reveal the scope of the surveillance leaks but it's open market for data that users give up every day by checking in on foursquare and posting tweets with their phones. >> google brought a company that makes a device which can tell when you are home the nest thermostat uses the information to turn the heat on and off. the company's private policies is it will only ever use the information to improve services but if this came with an nsa logo, you would probably drown it in the bathtub. >> the american civil lib we cant

. >>> the new nsa. get ready for president obama's new and improved surveillance strategy. >>> duck down. the audience, please, from the duck dynasty mere. >>> google's invention of a smart coop tact lens. >>> we may have the perfect sniper rifle. thanks for joining us >>> the next chapter in the new jersey bridge gate saga is here. nearly 20 subpoenas going out this morning. among those targeted is his former campaign manager and current spokesman and chief of staff, and deputy chief of staff, brid yesterday an kelly. >> i was born here. i was raised here. i'm raising my family here. this is where i intend to spend the rest of my life. whatever test they put in front of me, i will meet those tests because i'm doing it on your behalf. >>> later today, president obama will unveil plans to overhaul the nsa and roll back soom controversial practices revealed by edward snowden, it is expected to be a delicate balance to protect the nation and your privacy at the same time. tracie potts is live. what can we e

we'll continue why critics of the nsa are skeptical of the presidents announced reforms to former nsa whistleblower bill bennett. he still is not being given the right perspective on technology and was capable of technology instead of taking the fall collection approach in trying to modify those of legislation in that area to try to correct it but still maintain that fall collection is the wrong way to do it. a former nsa whistleblower kirk we did. it's sort of a false rubric to say or roof if you will a red herring to say of wealth and the state doesn't have a say not true it's connected to a wider network and as saying now aside from section to fifteen ball collection the president announced a number of reforms in other areas. others more d classification of pfizer court opinions coming. a change to be a definite secrecy that comes with national security letters are also allowing providers to share more information about the national security letters that they receive from the government. also the president called on congress to create a special panel to advocate before the fight to