is the surveillance more than just the patriot act? >> some of the excesses of the intelligence community predate the patriot act. many of the excesses derived from this legislation that was passed in fear and the procedures adopted and the programs undertaken after 2001, undertaken in fear, many of the excesses that the public is becoming familiar with, they are from that time. the patriot act is passed in the weeks after september 11. it goes overboard in a number of ways. not just in what the nsa thinks it empowered them to do, but the amendments act which i would also repeal, it came some years later. it has also been used for justification of these excessive practices by the nsa. >> while there is a huge spotlight on what the government is doing with your data, the question of how the government is organizing its own data has been less explored until now. congressman issa has been trying to standardize the way different agencies keep track of their spending so taxpayers can examine where their money is going. she brings us this rep

representatives senson parenner who is the original author of the patriot act, has joined our lawsuit and said as a friend of the court, and said this was not the intent of the patriot act. so yes, there is something we are doing, and there is something

predate the patriot act but so many of the excesses derived from this legislation that was passed ins in fear and the procedures that were adopted in the programs that were undertaken after two thousand and one undertaken in fear and so many of the excesses that we're familiar with that the public is becoming familiar with. date from that time the patriot act was passed in the weeks after the september eleventh two thousand and one attacks. it goes way overboard in a number of ways not just in what it what the n.s.a. thinks it empowered them to do the amendments act which i would also repeal in the legislation that i've introduced. it came some years later but it has also been used as the justification for these excess of practices by the n.s.a. both of those were supposed to have sunset provisions in other words recognizing that they were passed in an urgent manner. and that therefore they might not be right. there was this there was intended to be a sunset so that they would expire and then we could take another look at what needed to be done. congress really didn't handle that suns

i wanted to give you a chance about what the fbi has learned in your view about the patriot act since it passed. >> the greatest benefit of the patriot act was a breakdown of the statutory walls between the fbi and cia. those walls were erected some time ago where what you did internationally had very little bearing on what was done domestically and vice versa. you cannot get a picture of a threat, whether it be a cyber threat or narcotics or trafficking in prison or child pornography, terrorism, espionage, by looking solely on the one hand from the domestic perspective and on the other hand from the international perspective. you absolutely have to integrate that knowledge and intelligence in order to be effective in this day and age. the great benefit of the patriot act as it broke down those walls. prior to the patriot acts, within the bureau, those who were doing the national security work could not talk to criminal agents and vice versa, much less have persons in the fbi talked to the cia or nsa or others. the great benefit of the patriot act is it did away with that and enabled

predate the patriot act but so many of the excesses derived from this legislation that was passed in in fear and the procedures that were adopted in the programs that were undertaken after two thousand and one undertaken in fear and so many of the excesses that we're familiar with that the public is becoming familiar with. date from that time the patriot act was passed in the weeks after the september eleventh two thousand and one attacks. it goes way overboard in a number of ways not just in what it what the n.s.a. thinks it empowered them to do the sites that amendments act which i would also repeal in the legislation that i've introduced. came some years later but it has also been used as the justification for these excess of practices by the n.s.a. that was us representative rush holt. and while there is a huge spotlight on what the government is doing with your data the question of how the government is organizing its own data has been less explored until now that is congressman darrell issa has been trying to standardize the way different agencies keep track of their spending s

the patriots beat the bills, and brady finished 2 8 yards and two scores and helped the patriots win their tenth straight even opener. the new york jets led by gino smith came from behind to beat the tampa bay buccaneers with two seconds remaining. the jets win it 18-17. that's a look at your sports headlines. we'll take to you metlife stadium where the jets won in gino smith's debut as quarterback. >> thank you. around the globe people are voting, in ballots are being counted. we'll have updates on from moscow to australia with the number of points in between. >>> the president's call for military action against syria. those stories are coming up on al jazeera. we appreciate you spending time with us tonight. >>> up next is the golden age of hollywood going golden but elsewhere. why l.a.'s mayor has declared a state of emergency for the entertainment industry there. next. >> welcome back to al jazeera. here are your headlines for this hour. secretary of state john kerry is trying to rally allies in the attack against jaar. >>> president obama will try to make the case to america. he'

>> my co-author, co-founder of the two-party patriots. he is no longer with the two-party patriots, but he's doing the same thing i am, working to restore constitutional limited fiscally responsible governments. >> another thing you detail is with the tea party movement is not. how has it been portrayed through the media and what points do you want to make? >> one thing that is very important to understand is that our movement truly is non-partisan or bipartisan or transporters and, if you will. we want people who are elected to care about the same values that we care about. we don't care so much about the party politics. and what we have learned is that as people in congress use social issues or different levels of republican or democrats or social issues commander stuck paying attention to something shiny ever hear and in the meantime they're taking money and never back pocket, keep an eye on congress, both parties and all of them accountable. >> and issues like immigration. the tea party patriots have a position. >> we do. has been the

the bills certainly made the patriots work for it. ej manual let the bills to a 21-17 late only to see tom brady dodge the patriots to two field tkpoels including the game winner with five seconds remaining. patriots win. it was brady's victory in which the patriots were tied or trailed in the fourth quarter. the jets who also started a rookie quarterback gino smith hosting the tampa buccaneers. trailing 17-15 with time running out. he was out of bounds by la von te david. they were setting up nick for game-winning field goal at-plt from 48 this yards out. and it was good. yes. win it. 18-17. >> well gino smith entered the training camp in a bat with the mark sanchez with the quarterback stop and didn't win the job as much as it fell on his lap when sanchez was with a shoulder injury in a final preseason game. as we report from metlife stadium, smith did enough to get the job done today while the job is still his from the time.ing. >> reporter: the quarterback gino smith produced a mix bag of results. he fumbled, intercepted and also t

. >> al: meanwhile, dennard is down for the patriots and there he is. that's a very key loss especially before the biggest play of the game. >> cris: gonzalez was mauled on that play. there was no way they were going to let him -- it's like a gunner on a punt team right now. look at that. i've only seen that done on calvin johnson on the goal line. that's the only two in the history of the nfl the only two times i've ever seen it. they're going to double team him again. they are not letting tony gonzalez on the ball. top of the screen. >> al: jones wide left bottom of the screen. fourth and seven and the pass for white is batted away! aqib talib. what a night for him. so talib who starts on jones and does a great job on him and then they switch the defense and there's a smile on the face of belichick as they escape a bullet here. >> cris: single coverage inside. aqib talib, one of the heros here tonight. no question about it. roddy white simply unable to break free. his ankle is not allowing him to play up to speed. and aqib talib is the difference maker

. >> al: meanwhile, dennard is down for the patriots and there he is. that's a very key loss especially before the biggest play of the game. >> cris: gonzalez was mauled o that play. there was no way they were going to let him -- it's like a gunner on a punt team right now. look at that. i've only seen that done on calvin johnson on the goal line. that's the only two in the history of the nfl the only two times i've ever seen it. they're going to double team him again. they are not letting tony gonzalez on the ball. top of the screen. >> al: jones wide left bottom of the screen. fourth and seven and the pass for white is batted away! aqib talib. what a night for him. so talib who starts on jones and does a great job on him and then they switch the defense and there's a smile on the face of belichick as they escape a bullet here. >> cris: single coverage inside. aqib talib, one of the heros here tonight. no question about it. roddy white simply unable to break free. his ankle is not allowing him to play up to speed. and aqib talib is the difference maker.

the patriots scored but the jets controlled the tempo and the clock but you can't beat the patriots if four different times. now, the patriots may have won this game and john berman will tell you, this was probably as ugly as we have ever seen brady's offense play. the receivers totally out of sync and dropped several passes and total frustration. the patriots offense had four punts than first downs. gino smith did show some flashes of solid play, but in the fourth quarter, he threw three interceptions. the last interception came during a potential comeback drive. you can see the frustration from both sides. it really boiled over at the end of the game. you see a big scrum there after a late hit. the patriots would go on to win 13-10. >>> in the college ranks, the tcu and texas tech game, check this out. a huge mental mistake almost cost the red raiders the game. johnson does not get a touchdown for this because he dropped the ball. first at the nfl level the denver broncos -- last thursday against the ravens. remember that? yeah. now texas tech does it. both of those guys bailed out b

rookie quarterback e.j, led the bills to a 23-14 lead, only to see tom brady guide the patriots, patriots it 23-21, tied or trailed in the fourth quarter. here in new york the jets who also started a rookie quarterback in gino smith hosting tampa bay but give it up for gino smith, he would rally the quarterback, scrambled for ten yards and was shoved while he was already out of bounds by lavonte david, put the ball at the buc buccaneers 30. what a dramatic way to open the season for the jets. so much controversy accommodation in but a win is a win and they get it done, 18-17 was the final. >>> gino smith entered training camp, he didn't so much win the job as the job femme in his lap smith did enough to get the job done today while the job is his for the time being. >> jetstreajets quarterback gin, fumbled and threw a touchdown pass but when it mattered, smith refused to melt under pressure. >> like i said it's great to come home with a victory. defense did a phenomenal job out there on those guys and gave us a chance to win the game late. my offensive line protected particularly well. it

coming up, football night in america followed by the falcons patriots game. m lester holt reporting from new york. for all of us here at "nbc nightly news," good night. . >>> a look from above at atlanta, georgia, where tonight beneath the georgia dome, the records don't tell the whole story as the unbeaten new england patriots visit the down but dangerous atlanta falcons on "sunday night football." after a pair of narrow road losses matt ryan and the falcons 1-2 but with the quarterback at the helm of a explosive attack the falcons still have time to make a run at the playoffs. despite starting 3-0 for the first time since the franchise's undefeated season in 2011, devin mccourty and the patriots come to atlanta a road victory would come a long way toward beginning to answer them. once they kick it off an hour and a half from now, the guys with the answers, as always, will be al michaels and cris collinsworth as we zoom in to the sideline inside the mostly empty georgia dome. alfalfa, we pose this question. if saints beat miami tomorrow night and falcons 1-3

filed a lawsuit in against the new -- the patriot act parts of person advisa. a lot of people wondered about that case and who it was. >> you lost? >> we lost. >> not you, you weren't there yet. >> right. but when you lose, the way you lose, we fought, we lost, if you don't comply, it's treason. >> she mentioned that treason

the movies. films like mel gibson's patriot, films like al pacino's revolution. it's pronounced in popular history. the first third of the march of folly is dedicated to what is almost a parody of the british leadership during the revolutionary war. it even permits the academic scholars who use words like incompetent and mediocre to describe the leadership. this view that the british lost the war for incompetence always seems to me somewhat strange and it rather diminishes the achievements of commanders like washington and nathaniel green. it's also a caricature facing british leadership which only three decades later defeated napoleon. the leadership it vividly was aristocratic but it was competitive. britain had unlike much in europe but was known as private private -- in which only the oldest son inherited the title and the majority of the wealth. the youngest sons had to fend for themselves and to be competitive and essentially to pursue careers in the army and the house of commons were some of the most attractive of all of those careers. ella terry and naval

what the constraints are of the patriot act and pfizer court. we are watching a big change happen. host: deborah joining us on the independent line from florida. gordon adams, professor at the school of international service. caller: good morning. i would like to know when the u.s. became the kgb of the world. why do we need to take on all the problems of the middle east when there is no way we can resolve their religious issues? guest: that is a $640 billion question. over the 30 or 40 years i have spent in the national security establishment, we've always had a rhetoric internally and even with the public dominated by the view that we were the indispensable nation, the one country that everyone relied on to bring order out of chaos, maintain stability, prevent anarchy around the world.

so why is the guy who created the patriot act saying that all of this scares him? is teaming up with no less than the aclu to set our spies street. thank you orville and wilbur... ...amelia... neil and buzz: for teaching us that you can't create the future... by clinging to the past. and with that: you're history. instead of looking behind... delta is looking beyond. 80 thousand of us investing billions... in everything from the best experiences below... to the finest comforts above. we're not simply saluting history... we're making it. neil: now we know that the world is fair game. the nsa pretty much confirming that if they need to, they can well get their hands on an e-mail and phone call and text anytime. and it's just that sweeping power that has the author of the patriot asking if they can be a redo. only now is an aclu lawyer. alex, what is the gist of this suit? >> thank you for having me on the show. this is really about whether the national security agency should be allowed to track every single american phone call. for how long they talk every single day.

he will make his first start today against the patriots. several games that are a bit intriguing around the league. one of those, falcons and saints. it is likely to be a very emotional day in new orleans. saints head coach sean peyton after a year suspension. they staggered without him. sean payton, with the falcons. they went to the championship game. they are in town today. another match-up, green bay and aaron rogers to face the 49ers. remember the 49ers behind quarterback colin capernick before losing to the ravens. packers and '9ers out west. the giants in dallas later on tonight, the cowboys and the giants obviously a big nfc east rifflery but the giants have beaten the cowboys all four times since the new stadium was built in dallas. it will be interesting to see tonight if the giants can make that string extends to five straight wings on the road in the new stadium or if dallas can finally, get one in the books at home against the g-men. >> mark morgan, thank you very much. tomorrow, there is the monday night game with rgiiii. >>> t

post-9/11 with the powers of the patriot act and some of the other expanded powers that the governmenting? >> there are certain rights that were demanded by the people and guaranteed to us. and one of those is the fourth amendment to privacy, which essentially says you're to be free against unreasonable searches and seizures, and no warrant shall be issued but upon probable cause, particularly describing the place, person or thing to be seized. and it is seriously under attack. >> prior to the patriot act of 2001, guidelines for search and surveillance are spelled out by the foreign intelligence surveillance act of 1978. it allows for secret surveillance only to gather foreign intelligence. >> the patriot act amended that, and it seemed like a slight, innocuous change. but it said you could get a secret warrant to do a secret search so long as the significant purpose was to gain foreign intelligence. the wall that was breached is the one that undermines you and i, americans' rights. >> ultimately, the case is dismissed against brandon mayfield, who later sues the federal government. hi

organizationsanted to know how the government has been interpreting a controversial provision of the patriot act thought to be responsible for ying on ordinary americans. technology companies are beginning to escalate their efforts to publicly disclose information about what the government has coerced them to share. yahoo and facebook filed a lawsuit. asking for permission to reveal the number and kinds of national security request they have received. remember google and microsoft filed similar lawsuits in june. both of those companies amended their petitions. i was joined earlier by elizabeth, codirector of liberty and national -- i asked what we can expect to learn from these documents. >> we will see the rationale for approving a book collection for all of the telephone records. we have a hint of what that rationale is. plus the legal justification for the program and what the court found is something along the lines of what the government put forward in that paper. at least we will have the chance to see the court waive some of the competing arguments about whether every american's telep

the author is the co-founder of tea party patriots, jenny beth martin. where does that he party movement stand today? >> we have so much going on and where we stand is that we still stand for the core values that we stood for when we started out in this modern teen party movement four years ago. responsibility, constitutionally limited government and free market. we knew it would take 40 years to achieve our goal and we are four years into mechanical is to restore the constitutionally limited responsible government. >> are you stronger, more organized, more established? >> we are all free. a stronger, more organized and more established. we have over 3,000 troops now voluntarily affiliated with tea party patriots. the movement is alive and well and we are really -- we have been 32 cycles now. we've been through a cycle where we had great success and we've been through a cycle where some of the people we wanted elected lost. it's a learning process for the people involved especially if you are new to politics you have to get through the win and the loss to

when the american people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the patriot act, theyill be stunned and they will be angry. >> the words would foreshadow an inkling of the disturbing revelations to emerge regarding the americans right to privacy. they began to ask questions about how the government had been interpreting one very questionable provision of the patriot act. it vastly expanded the government's power. referring to it as sensitive programs. the lawsuit from the american civil liberties union and the electronic frontier foundation, we finally have answers. the office of the director released approximately 1800 pages of documents that shed light on the constitutionality of the domestic surveillance program. we now know more details of a program that started in 2000 one that allowed for the government to collect phone records in bulk. the nsa received daily transfers of customer records from the nation's phone companies. those records included incoming and outgoing calls along with the call duration. documents reveal that they have been running an automated ale

afternoon when the american people flying though how their government has secretly interpreted the patriot act they are going to be stunned and they are going to be angry. now we didn't know it at the time but senator wyden is words would foreshadow just an inkling of the disturbing revelations to emerge regarding americans right to privacy it's because of white and chilling comment that privacy advocates began to ask questions about how the government had been interpreted in one very questionable provision of the patriot act known as section two fifteen a section that vastly expanded the government's power to spy on ordinary people were firm to it as sensitive collection program and now more than two years after a flurry of requests and a subsequent lawsuit from the american civil liberties union and the electronic frontier foundation we finally have the answers just yesterday the office of the director of national intelligence released approximately eighteen hundred pages of documents that shed light on the constitutionality of the n.s.a.'s domestic surveillance program so we now know mo

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>> my co-author, co-founder of the two-party patriots. he is no longer with the two-party patriots, but he's doing the same thing i am, working to restore constitutional limited fiscally responsible governments. >> another thing you detail is with the tea party movement is not. how has it been portrayed through the media and what points do you want to make? >> one t

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he thanked the patriots on facebook and said he will not quit. today, the atlanta falcons released linebacker brian banks. you may remember bank as the former high school football star who spent five years in prison on a wrongful rape conviction. the falcons gave him a chance after he was exonerated last year. he did play one pre-season game, fulfilling his dream of playing in the nfl. swimmer diana nyad left cuba for the united states this morning, and she's take, the long way. nyad is 64, and this is her fifth attempt to swim from havana to florida, all 103 miles of it. elaine quijano report on an unstoppable three throoet's unsinkable dream. >> reporter: the nature of this sport is filled with magic. here on the earth's ocean and you're skimming across the surface of and and you don't get much higher than that. >> reporter: undurrance athlete diana nyad is obsessed with this stretch of ocean. at 28 years old, he set out to become the first person to swim 103 miles from cuba to florida without a shark cage. she did not make it. that was 1978. >

impact on the patriot organization? p. >> what did you know about him? >> i mean, i think we've said a lot on the issue. and he was -- everything i ever saw about him was first class. in the building. and it's a very sad thing. and it's something that, you know, i said everything i'm going to say about it. there's a trial going on. >> can we talk about the super bowl ring with vladimir putin? did you give him the ring? did you not give him the ring? did he steal the ring? do you want the ring back? how do you you feel about the ring, bob kraft? >> well said, gayle. >> i had the opportunity with my friend sandy in st. petersburg to show him the ring. it worked out that i gave it to him as a present. i understand he has said he's making a ring for me. >> yeah. >> i'd like to invite him right here to come and present it to me, like cbs presented games at the stadium. >> i'm hearing that you gave it to him as a present, okay. >> okay. >> the white house asked you to say you gave it to him as a present, right? >> and the ring

the push for the patriot act a very emotional debate, obviously. ere families pushing congress to move forward, to straighten out the mess that had become the intelligence community, the stove piping, the rivalries, the inability to share intelligence information that today still plagues the intelligence community despite the fact that the director of national intelligence, that office was created as a result of the patriot act. many of the laws and provisions that have become so controversial now, but to take this back even further and to exco what david was saying and bring it to the future, first of all given the historical anssi -- anticedants. >> please direct your attention to the memorial -- >> continue because as you know in washington if anything happens quickly, it has not hand at all. >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the national anthem of the united states performed by the army brass quintet. ♪ >> mike even as i was telling do you pause, i was reminded that the events at the pentagon are run by the military district of washington, and

are you ready for this at the patriots? >> we're very excited. gy and with our iphones and our ipads and what have you, we don't build relationships the same way. and i think there are two things in this world, your pal kenny chesney and sports and music bring communities together like nothing else. and i know our fans are really excited and throughout the country, it's a great excitement. >> we are looking at president obama who is speaking right now with the swedish prime minister. they're getting ready to take questions. but let's listen in right now to president obama who is speaking in stockholm. >> those are goals that we share. and we will keep working towards those goals. and more broadically, given sweden's close partnership with nato, we also touched on some of the other security challenges. and i expressed my appreciation for the extraordinary work that the swedish armed forces has done in whole range of issues including afghanistan, efforts to resolve some of the conflicts in central eastern europe and the ongoing training that's also

today he's without a team. >> yesterday the patriots cut him. tebowing for good? gio benitez is here. >> he was flying high two years ago. the inspiration for tebow mania. today some say tim tebow's football career could be finished after being cut in the pre-season. the devoutly religious quarterback won two national champions and the heisman trophy before being drafted late in the first round bit denver broncos. >> he's professional, people are drawn to him. >> tebow didn't start until mid season, then propelled the team on the way to the playoffs. the florida native turned his trademark pose, tebowing into a phenomenon. it was spreading across social media and late night comedy. >> hey, everybody. >> oh, jesus. >> all while maintaining the humility that made him so likable. he spoke to robyn roberts. >> she was the key to my success. >> one season later, tebow was welcomed to new york as a jet, only to have his rising career knocked down again. >> they were asking him to do things he's not suited to do. >> it seemed he finally landed a home w

coming up, football night in america followed by the falcons patriots game. m lester holt reporting from new york. for all of us here at "nbc nightly news," good night. . >>> a look from above at atlanta, georgia, where tonight beneath the georgia dome, the records don't tell the whole story as the unbeaten new england patriots visit the down but dangerous atlanta falcons on "sunday night football." after a pair of narrow road losses matt ryan and the falcons 1-2 but with the quarterback at the helm of a explosive attack the falcons still have time to make a run at the playoffs. despite starting 3-0 for the first time since the franchise's undefeated season in 2011, devin mccourty and the patriots come

the citizens. >> prior to funding tea party patriots were you political? >> i was with active in georgia and in my local county in politics. >> in republican politics? >> it was republican politics. by the time this started i was so frustrated with republicans and democrats. remember how i mentioned the tarp bill in the very beginning. well lie ahead in the county campaign chair for both mccain and senator saxby chambliss in my county in georgia in 2008. when he suspended the campaign to go vote on the bill and voted the same way that obama did, i looked at it and i said i don't see much of a difference. there is a label that's different and sure they pick a few different issues but fundamentally on the most important constitutional principle and not seeing a lot of difference between the two. saxby chambliss voted in favor as well. a republican voting county people would take the mccain palin bumper stickers and cut off mccain then they wouldn't even take saxby chambliss so both parties have led to us seeing the trillions in debt. both parties voted for th

the patriots win a sloppy game, 13-10. tcu, texas tech, a huge mental mistake almost cost the red raiders the win. d'andre washington celebrates just a tad too soon and drops the ball right before he crosses the goal line. so no touchdown. if you remember, this happened a week ago in the nfl. the bronco did the same thing against the ravens. the broncos would go on to win this game and texas tech would win that game last night. both made huge mistakes but were bailed out. trending this morning on bleacherreport.com, it's the most anticipated rematch, alabama against number six texas a & m. last year, the ledge gend of jo football was born when they went in to tuscaloosa and beat alabama. a chance tomorrow to prove that last year's within was not a fluke. >>> believe it or not, peyton and eli manning make more than hilarious directv commercials. they play sunday in manning bowl iii. >> let me ask you a question. >> it is unique. you take a moment it realize it is special but once the game gets started, all week, the focus i

said this quote when the american people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the patriot act he will be stunned and they will be angry what do you think he meant by that when i think he's right i mean i think the americans now know that the government has interpreted this authority which on its face looks fairly narrow the government is allowed to obtain records from third parties like telephone companies if it has grounds to believe that those records are relevant to an authorized foreign intelligence or international terrorism investigation and the government and the pfizer court have interpreted this authority to allow a bulk collection of all americans telephone records that really doesn't look on its face consistent with what the statute allows and so i think americans were. shocked to learn that their own telephone records are being treated as relevant for counterterrorism purposes absolutely well the a.c.l.u. filed their way a lawsuit shortly after ron wyden said that and why i wanted to get your take on why you think it's coming out now why two years later we fina

cut by the new england patriots. feel bad for him. tebow is a good guy. you say? >> got an honest bounce this time. he is with the best donor, he is the the with the best coach studying under the best quarterback. now i think he looks shaky, ironically throwing every lawn passe into a hell mary. i would turn this country over tomorrow to an older version of tim tebow wouldn't turn the patriots offense. time to do god's work, brother. i didn't think the jets gave you a good tumble. i like john fox moderated agile thinking. you knew non-purist quarterback. this was the time he got the actual bounce. it looked shaky to me. if he doesn't want to do the cfl time to move on and save the world. >> i think the patriots may bring him back, yeah. >> well, mr. craft is is a sweet man. and i think he likes good karma and i don't think the coach operates like that. i think the coach is a stone killer. but i do think mr. craft realizes that in a world gone mad you can do worse than have a cat like tim tebow in your life. >> bill: the players like him. is he a good guy. all right