." >> as we recently learned, the us national security agency, or nsa, can hack into pretty much any mobile phone call or transaction. and who says it's only the nsa? some 100,000 attacks occur in germany every day. we know of a man who used to launch such attacks. but he's since switched sides and now offers his services to fend off hackers. meet mathias ungetum, who's invited us to look around his high-tech global living room. my name is matthias ungethÜm and i live here in geringswalde, in central saxony. and i really like it here, because it's very quiet. i'm a penetration tester. at first that sounds funny to most people, but all it means is that i evaluate systems to find their weak points. by now almost everyone who cares about their data wants to protect it, and that's why i'm here. if i get a job that requires me to go see a client, i get up and leave home early. but usually i can work from home. that means whenever i wake up, i just sit down at my computer and get started. and this thing here, is a hard drive that was found once when my house was searched. i'd basically comm

berlin has called for the bilateral deal after revelations that the us national security agency the nsa had tapped to host ellen eccles cell phone has the look on a tree millions of everyday germans. those acts and actions were part of an extensive surveillance program here in germany the us is said to have projected costs of calls that refrain from spying on german government officials berlin wants american agents here to respect german wall panel now onto the catwalks of berlin where fashion week is gone started dozens of designers to be showing their latest collections to get the ball running the laotian designing in a good deals and elegant and simple collection is designed to catch rides bikes. it's soft drinks and a lot. now eco fashion and fair trade are becoming more and more important at berlin fashion week. we met with some of the new generation who say clothes can be any color as long as the great then designed to make letters to the environmentally conscious manner. and any design you see today is the concealment uncanny and can be machine washed. there's an enemy to chemica

the security cards. one of obama as paul says what americans want to watch our intelligence gathering techniques. the us national security agency was criticized by other nations for carrying the playa toppings on phone conversations. domestically an amber alert. i will work for more surveillance programs because the vital work of our intelligence community depends on confidence here and abroad the privacy of ordinary people is not being violent obama also defended easing economic sanctions on iran and asked for the time and space. the us needs to continue ongoing nuclear negotiations with the country and this congress sends me a new sanctions bill now that threatens to the rail these talks i will veto it uh uh for the sake of our national security. we must give diplomacy a chance to succeed on the asia pacific region obama reiterated the importance of its allies we will continue to focus on the asia pacific. for we support our allies. shou a future greater security and prosperity. and extend a hand to those devastated by disaster. as we do in the philippines. lee has happened. mitsui that people understood that the policy that

when leaked files from the us national security agency revealed that the american spies have been keeping close tabs on a key ally germany the government there was furious comparing the practices to those of the stasi is germany's notorious secret police are just pure all over met with a veteran of that service to find out just how similar the two really are. on finding out that the united states attempt to private mobile phone and glimmer confronted president obama with this claim. former offices in the east german secret police which was known as the stars he have a warning for the n.s.a. if they think must surveillance is the solution to a nation's problems who quoted even the best qualified and most advanced secret service cannot save the state we showed you that away from the professed shock of the politicians at the n.s.a. spying ability how does it compare with the actions of the east german secret services cheering the cold war as can now it's really this is exactly as illegal as some of the tactics that the stars are used to employ it is a breach of human rights but the governmen

the japanese imperial military. call us thousands upon thousands of women prime enter the chinese and koreans into sexual slavery during the war. they are new revelations in the stock topped the us national security agency nsa has been installing software or hardware as many as one hundred thousand computers around the world but not in united states to conduct surveillance on those machines. this one engine spam and has more details from washington dc. senator biden just days before president obama will announce proposed reforms to the nsa new revelations that the us sinful treats computers around the world. even when they're not connected to the internet. according to documents provided to german paper dish people from edward snowdon the nsa uses a combination of software and high tech spy hardware like this trend seaver. the name cotton of one embedded in a usb plug to wirelessly transmit data back and forth between a receiving station like this one. codename nightstand which can be miles away from the target computer this allows the nsa to target secure computers not connected to the internet once the items are cleverly put in place. the computers can then be monitored or use to launch a cyber attack

among allegations aired by snowden last year with at the us national security agency and its british counterpart in cc hq had in two thousand nine targeted an email address listed as belonging to then israeli prime minister he could own manage and monitor e mails of senior israeli defense officials. israel played down the disclosures but prime minister benjamin netanyahu said he had ordered a probe into the affair assuming that rumor concerning mass is published in the last few days i have asked for an examination in the mass m in the close ties between israel and united states there are things that must not be done and the non acceptable to us. and i'm with you. last month several israeli cabinet members and lawmakers said the news that us spying on israel was an opportunity to press washington to free jailed israeli agent jonathan pollard. the former us navy intelligence analyst was sentenced to a life term in nineteen eighty seven in the united states for spying for israel and a succession of us presidents have so far rejected the israeli calls for his pardon. i went to euthanasia

. >> ifill: since at least 2008, the national security agency has been using secret technology to hack into and take control of computers not connected to the internet. these revelations come from the trove of documents leaked by former n.s.a contractor edward snowden. late today the n.s.a said in a statement,

chancellor who was very critical of the us spying program the national security agency the allegations that she said that this has eroded trust in germany in between germany and in the united states of the trust needed to be rebuilt but she also said that the internet and digital technology is an extremely important part of germany's future and that the country will continue to develop its infrastructure to assure of prosperity and growth in years to carry my things for joining us in studio. some other news now in ukraine the country's first post independence president has warned the nation is on the brink of civil war planning to cut steel can make a mask on him to miss the stop time and andy on wednesday and stood facing possible concessions to anti government demonstrators including and honesty from dozens of activists who've been arrested. this comes a day after president chen of coverage given to some of the opposition's demands. but the anti government movement that wants more of the jimmie johnson that has been talking to russian president lighting approaching. she hatched him t

the nsa has become, an agency dedicated to ubiquitous spying. >> so what is it? we'll be right back. ed. >>> welcome back, journalist, glen greenwald has been talking to us about the national security agency and it's program. and glen, you're an author and litigator, and it's a new year and what's next? >> well, there's definitely a lot of documents that are given to us that we're still working with, and they have not yet been reported and we're working on those stories as consistently as we can and being accurate. and there are a good number of stories that are very significant that continue to be reported that will i think shape how people think about these programs in profound ways. >> two things. you said you have a lot of documents, and can you quantify that, and what's the trigger? when do you release the next round of information? >> i've never counted the documents. i said before that they number in the tens of thousands, and i don't know what the exact number is, buts this a large number of them. and they take so much time to read through and report and piece together. the trigger is that when we find documents that are interesting and important stories, we work on them as

the disaster rouse rise of misplaced power existed and will exist." this brings us sharper into focus. here to tell us more is the former national security agencyector general michael hayden, also former head of the house intelligence committee, congressman peter hoekstra. general hayden, i want to follow up with you a little bit more on the actual programs that are being discussed. after 9/11, you made tactical decisions because of the current situations. is it possible that those tactical situations then turned into institutional mandates that are just too big and too unwieldy to reassure the public that they are being handled correctly. >> pimm, that's a great question. i think, frankly, it's at the heart of the issue here. i mean what do we as a people want to do in balancing our security and our liberty. and make no mistake, people who a false choice misinterpret it, it's a hard choice. we have to make it all the time. you're hitting upon my deepest concern about the president's speech. again, i said there is much to like about it, but the deepest concern is this, at its core, at its core, the president has said we may have overreacted in

request washington based national security lawyer kel mcclanahan noticed a change in the agency's fact sheet that was sent out this summer the primary function of the f.b.i. agency used to be law enforcement but these days national security is the agency's main focus the f.b.i. says this change in priorities has been going on since the september eleventh attacks on the world trade center f.b.i. spokesman told branson told foreign policy magazine that the agency's website and missions have long reflected this deviation from its original goals however critics say the f.b.i. is deep prioritizing law enforcement substantially in fact according to a two thousand and ten inspector general's report between two thousand and one and two thousand and nine the f.b.i. doubled its number of agents focused on counterterrorism and national security efforts during that same time there was a notable decline in the number of criminal cases that were investigated by the agency and a steep drop in investigations over white collar crimes so that might be a reason why the bankers who caused the two thousand and nine financial crash and who continually use risky business practices in their

international news organizations are focusing specifically on studies claims that the us and eu at the national security agency is involved in industrial espionage. let's take a lot of headlines and also snowed claim of course that there are significant threats to his life. now because of his high profile nature and the fact that this appears to be the first television interview he's granted i think there will be a lot of pressure to get there super national rights of people be hearing a lot more about this interview in the days and weeks to come. the analysis dairy part three years after an uprising in tunisia touched off the arabs freeing the country has a new and democratic constitution more than ninety five percent of legislators voted in favor of the document which establishes freedom of conscience and religion in the islamic state. grant's men and women equal rights and new elections are planned later this year the emotional scenes in parliament after an overwhelming majority approves the new constitution the document in chinese islam is the official religion and ninety nine cents equal rights between me

the us russia and india brazil and many more ok andrea stroller legal adviser to the european center for constitutional and human rights thank you very much for joining us. thank you. the u.s. national security agency has gone to a staggering lengths to hoard the private data of millions of people but an independent study now suggests all that information failed to produce the results the government help for parties were important i explained. when edward snowden first revealed the u.s. government's indiscriminate collection of every american's phone data u.s. president barack obama defended the program insisting that dozens of threats around the world have been a bit courtesy of the national security agency and i say chief general keith alexander claimed metadata collection has toward it before different terrorism related activities post nine eleven now unfortunately for the white house a new study shows that the numbers they're using well they've been slightly inflated because that analysis of two hundred and twenty five terrorism related cases in the u.s. since the september eleventh attack has found that the n.s.a.'s program has provided evidence for only one case now the study by the national

the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. here to tell us more, the former national security agencyh director, general michael and former house services intelligence committee chairman pete hoekstrea. you made tactical decisions because of the current situations. is it possible that those tactical situations then turned into institutional mandates that are just too big, and too unwieldy to reassure the public that they are being handled correctly? >> pimm, that is a great question. it is at the heart of the issue here. as a people google want to do in balancing our security and our liberty? make no mistake, people listen that is a false choice misinterpreted. it is a hard choice, and it is one that we have to make all the time. my are probably hitting upon deepest concern about the president's speech. there's much to like about it, but the deepest concern is this , the president has said we may have overreacted in the post-9/11 world. his commission said that some of the authorities created or expanded after 9/11 unduly sacrificed democratic cross-ice is, individual liberty, and pro

the charges. us president barack obama has nominated a single individual to head both the national security agency and the us military cyber command. vice admiral michael rogers is currently in charge of the us navy's cyber warfare programs writers nominations to both positions must be confirmed by the senate. an independent panel set up by president obama advice again east letting one person leaves both organizations. the panel cited concerns about excessive concentration of power. but some security experts argue the dual appointed will facilitate ordination. the nsa has been under fire for overtly collecting vast amounts of personal information including telephone records the agency has also been accused of spying on leaders of us allies. these revelations were based on classified documents disclosed by former nsa contractors edwards noted check in thailand to anti government demonstrators are staging large protests ahead of sunday's general election they're demanding the immediate resignation of prime ministry election a lot and into the political influence of her brother ousted prime minister

the us ministry of justice. they require the national security agency to stop spying on common americans in order to restore the trust of the citizens in the secret services the u s president barack obama decided to revise and cut back the powers of intelligence service peanuts major nsa reform provisions in particular obama been the intelligence agency to spy on the use of u s friendly states. let me be clear. i want to emphasize that intelligence will continue to get information about the intentions of other states just as it is done all over the world the government and heads of states whom we closely cooperate with it must be sure that we treat them as partners. the program and collecting data about citizens a telephone conversations was changed according to obama the program will cease to exist in its current form in the case of surveillance of common citizens. the service will be required to obtain special permission. and they're going they say that they would change the program but in fact we have no idea how they're going to change the fact is they continue to collect data on thousands of common america

the cause is under investigation. >>> the national security agency was using iphones as a surveillance device, apple said today it didn't know about it. sharon chin on the program that could reportedly give the government complete access to the popular smart phone. >> imagine your i foin a tool for the nsa using a software program already planted in the smart phone, the federal agency can allegedly control it remotely to steal messages, harvest contact information and secretly record audio. tech analysts rob enderly. >> the proposal they placed an application inside the iphone during its assembly and configuration and that program then allowed them to access the phone. >> cupertino-based apple says it did not cooperate with the nsa and had no idea their surveillance program existed reportedly as far back as 2008. a sooir cyber security researcher exposed the program in a german news magazine. the iphone is an easy target for nsa hackers because apple maintains consistency in its products. >> they really don't change it very much over time and that allows an application to stay in place and function much longer than it w

the problem has been solved in part because the national security agency has implanted surveillance software in nearly 100,000 computers arounaround the world. according to the national security agency, it has been using this technology for six years and allows the agency to track information even if the user's computer is not connected to the internet. it comes in advance of a major speech president obama will give on nsa guidelines on spying. >>> rand paul announced he's joining snap chat. it has become one of the most popular messaging platforms for younger people. senator rand paul plans to send his first senate shot tonigh sn. it will allow the user to send thto viewers knowing that the snapshot will only last ten seconds. hmm, i wonder what problems that could bring to politicians. >>> the new york sometimes has published a cross word puzzle created by bernice gordon who turns $100. she said she could not live without them. >> anthony weiner, you might wonder if he would have had the ability to erase or have them automatically erased. >> let's hope that they don't regret to decision. >> when oil companies remove products it replace it is with a ncareplaces it with anasty prod. >> new information

the surveillance week. michael mckee is with us this week. >> the national security agency 08 -- already knows this, but apple increasingly relies on china for its sales growth. that effort, they hope, is getting a boost today. apple is beginning to sell the iphone in the nations largest mobilephone carrier. is interesting here because tim:, the ceo of apple, is in beijing today to kick off the ceo of apple, is in beijing today to kick off this thing. sixnegotiation deal began years ago. 763 million subscribers. for apple, that means a company now has access to more than 700 million potential new customers. we don't have any financial details on the partnership. but it will be sold in 3000 locations across the country, a boon.n to -- a big >> there are concerns about apple's image in china. "new york times" reporting that very few people showed up to see tim cook today. >>. orders are already at one million before today's launch date. some different analysts have some different forecasts. others say that he could boost it by 15 million for the full year because of this deal with china mobile. we will see how

so in the early days of the cold war, president truman created the national security agency to give us insight into the soviet block and give us information they needed to divert catastrophe. throughout this evolution, we benefited from both our constitution and our traditions of limited government. u.s. intelligence agencies were anchored in a system of checks and balances. with oversight from elected leaders and protections for ordinary sentence. ordinary citizens. meantime, east germany offered a cautionary tale of what happened when vast unchecked surveillance turned citizens into prisoners for their own homes. and even the united states proved to not be immune to the abuse of surveillance. in the 1960s, governments spied on civil rights leaders and critics of the vietnam war, and partly in response to these revelations, additional laws were established in the 1970s to ensure that our intelligence capabilities could not be used against our citizens. in the long twilight struggle against communism, we have been reminded that the very liberties we preserved could not be sacrificed at

jeremy called will be on the line with us so you can stay with us for that. since the national security agency's astonishingly widespread surveillance became public knowledge the white house let to defend it for preventing numerous terrorist plots but it seems that's not entirely the case by a long way as murder portnoy has been finding out. when edward snowden first revealed the u.s. government's indiscriminate collection of every american's phone data u.s. president barack obama defended the program insisting that dozens of threats around the world have been a bit courtesy of the national security agency and i say chief general keith alexander claimed metadata collection has thwarted if the four different terrorism related activities post nine eleven now unfortunately for the white house a new study shows that the numbers they're using well they've been slightly inflated because that analysis of two hundred and twenty five terrorism related cases in the u.s. since the september eleventh attack has found that the n.s.a.'s program has provided evidence for only one case that the study by the nat

the u.s. engages in industrial espionage stop speaking to german tv, he said if a company like german was found useful information to the u.s. government, the national security agencyse it. ♪ >> welcome back to "countdown." i am mark barton. >> i am caroline hyde. let's move to at&t and tax. are ended speculation that looking to buy vodafone is saying they have no plans to make a specific offer. let's head out to berlin with hans nichols. an update. they have written it off the table. but they ripped it off the table stop there and raises the question what might at&t be interest -- >> they wrote it off the table and it raises the question what might at&t be interested in? an interesting question and we will update you. the head of at&t met with the top eu trade and that raises questions about what did they talk about and is at&t answers and something other than vodafone? they put out a statement indicating that the vodafone is not a target. i will read it. confirms it does not intend to make an offer for vodafone and that would event at&t from going after vodafone for six months under u.k. rules." all of the focus comes back to vodafone. vodafone is going to have a

in the early days of the cold war, president truman created the national security agency, or nsa, to give usnsight into the soviet lock and provider leaders with information they needed to confront and avert catastrophe. we have benefited from both our constitution and our traditions of limited government. u.s. intelligence agencies were anchored in a system of checks and balances with oversights from elected leaders and protections for ordinary citizens. meanwhile, totalitarian states like east germany offered a cautionary tale of what could happen when vast unchecked surveillance turn citizens into informers and persecuted people for what they said in the privacy of their own homes. even the united states proved not to be immune to the abuse of surveillance. in the 1960's, governments spied on civil rights leaders. additional laws were established in 1970's to ensure that our intelligence capabilities would not be misused against our citizens. in the long twilight struggle against communism, we have been reminded that the very liberties that we thought to preserve could not be sacrificed a

the american people. that requires us to have capabilities in this field. >> reporter: effective immediately, the national security agency must seek approval from a secret federal court before it can search its massive trove of telephone and internet data. there is an exemption for emergency terror threats. for now, the n.s.a. will continue to store surveillance data, but the president wants that to end. congress and the administration will study alternatives. >> our intelligence agencies will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments. >> reporter: after bitter complaints from german chancellor angela merkel and brazilian president dilma rousseff, mr. obama said this about spying on foreign leaders. >> unless there is a compelling national security purpose we will not monitor the communications of heads of state and government of our close friends and allies. >> reporter: the u.s. can still spy on friendly foreign governments, there will be more scrutiny and higher level approval required. lastly, scott, the u.s. government will now begin to purge data collected on foreign citizens that's not rel

the nation," page two. joining us now the former deputy director of the cia michael morell. he also served on that advisory panel that made the recommendations last month about what changes would be needed at the national security agency. mr. morell, thank you for joining us. >> good to be here. >> schieffer: i want to ask you first, chairman rogers made some interesting disclosures this morning suggesting that there is some reason to believe the russians may have been helping edward snowden and also expressing real concern about safety for the coming olympics. just give me your reaction to that. >> i share the chairman's concern about what the russian intelligence services may be doing with mr. snowden. i don't have any particular evidence, but one of the things that i point to when i talk about this is that the disclosures that have been coming recently are very sophisticated in their content and sophisticated in their timing. almost too sophisticated for mr. snowden to be deciding on his own. seems to me he might be getting some help. >> schieffer: and what about the coming olympics, are you concerned about the lack of cooperation that the russians seem to be giving us? >> long history of cooperation between nation

in the us there have been hints from the government that the national security agency was so bloated with sudden might be i would return to this country with limited amnesty. also on thursday he led an online web chat while still in in russia. and this came on the same day an independent us government watchdog panel called the nsa is involved phone and data collection program. the legal and effective. cctv gemstone one has to be styles from our washington bureau. less than a week after president obama defended the end a season that a data collection program while calling for mild reforms. we cannot unilaterally disarm our intelligence exits the room to grow. turned up no indication that this database has been intentionally use a new report from the privacy and civil liberties oversight board. the us government watchdog agency comes to a far different conclusion seeing the nsa mehta data collection program quote blacks a viable legal foundation raises serious threats to privacy and civil liberties and as a result the board recommends that the government and the program. and it says in

. >> if the national security agency was using iphones as a surveillance device, apple said today it didn't know about it. sharon chin on the program that could reportedly give the government complete access to the popular smart phone that is owned by millions. >> imagine your iphone, a tool for the nsa. using a software program implanted in the phone, they can control it remotely to steal messages, harvest contact informs and secretly record audio. tech analyst, rob enderly. >> they placed an application inside the iphone during its assembly and configuration and that program allowed them to access the phone. >> it did not cooperate with the nsa and had no idea the surveillance program existed, reportedly as far back as 2008. a cyber security researcher exposed the program in a german news magazine and the iphone is an easy target for nsa hackers because apple mountains consistency in its products. >> really don't change it very much. over time, that allowed an application to stay in place and function much longer than it would some place else. >> it would continue to defend its cus

request washington based national security lawyer khalil planning and notice a change in the agency's fact sheets that was sent out this summer the primary function of the fbi used to be yet one parsnip this but these days national security is the agency is named bob gets the fbi says this change in priorities has been going on since the september eleventh attacks on the world trade center. fbi spokesman paul dress and told foreign policy magazine match of the agency's website and missions have won reflected this deviation from its original goal was. critics say the fbi is d prioritizing the enforcement substantially in fact according to a two thousand ten inspector general's report that in two thousand one hundred thousand eyeing the fbi and doubled its number of agents focus on counterterrorism and national security efforts during that same time there was a notable d klein in the number of criminal cases that were investigated by the agency and east of prague and investigations over white collar crimes. solid and i need a reason when the bankers because the two thousand nine financial crash and continually use a risky business practices still walk as free men.

the u.s. but had nothing to do with national security needs, the national security agency would still use it.> snowden also said he felt there were significant threats to his life but he, nevertheless, sleeps well because he believes he did the right thing. >> he really feels strongly about those threats. he said, quote, these people and government officials said they would love to put a bullet in my head or kill me when i come out of the supermarket and watch me die in the shower. extreme words. >> no doubt. >>> there will be some nervous investors this morning. stocks opening below 16,000 for the first time this year. some of the biggest companies are reporting their earnings this week. amazon, apple, google and what they say could have an impact on your 401(k). also this week the fed is expected to confirm they will be pulling back on their efforts to stimulate the economy. >>> it will cost three cents more to mail a letter today. postal rates went up yesterday to 49 cents for an envelope. 34 cents for a postcard. some other rates are up, too. lines are likely going to be long at the post

the size of confederate armies. in world war ii code breakers gave us insights into japanese war plans. in president truman created the national security agency or nsa. [ laughter ] >> jon: i like it. i like it when you tickle. i like it when you tickle. [ laughter ] i wasn't sleeping through the president's new a&e special, the history of surveillance. i was just sitting here. [laughter] well, it's a great strategy. obama has a relatively impossible task so he thought rather than attempt it why not talk to long and boringly that people stop listening. it's the old -- though did he get to his point. the danger is real. >> we cannot unilaterally disarm our intelligence agencies thrches a reason why blackberries and iphones are not allowed in the white house situation room. >> jon: i know it's biden, isn't it? [laughter] won't stop interrupting everybody with his snap chatting. [ laughter ] he's got the -- [laughter] [cheers and applause] that's nice. i have found the level of the audience. [ laughter ] did nothing. got all these clever little thins worked out. you have to draw a couple diks on a picture. crowd goes nuts. so the danger of terro

can't next to them since the effectiveness of american spy agency for years the us government to be hiding its dragnet surveillance of entire nations under the national security rock in fear of another nine eleven americans have no idea just how pervasive the government spying program became. but falling interest of his revelations. lions team to the surface. does the nsa collect any type of data at all. and millions or hundreds of millions of americans. no storm. owner we know of at least. fifty trucks. there have been averted because of this information on on. there is only one case but this was useful in the sunday saw a five hundred goals this amounted to an al qaeda affiliate. yet i've known for being charged but even in the case the couple waited two months to investigate this case though. get the idea that this is critical to stopping terrorism is his reply. policy group the new america foundation has analyzed hundreds of terrorism related cases and says traditional investigative methods such as the use of informants and tips for bets. the nsa speaking surveillance did nothing to prevent the bombing scene was last year. even despite multiple pics from

the program with ben rhodes, thanks for joining us. after an extensive review, the president unveiled his changes to national security agency to the surveillance program. let me ask you, if i'm joe schmo, average citizen, if i'm google, what changes are going into effect beginning for me today? >> the program with the most attention is metadata relating to phone calls, the time of calls and phone numbers, that is in a database that the government controls and can query for information. there is a risk for potential abuse of that database. so what we're going to do immediately, the government cannot query that database to access information from it without going to a court first and getting judicial review beforehand. we're going to transition out of that program and have somebody other than the government hold that metadata. that's a big change in terms of privacy protection for all americans. every american's phone data could potentially be collected in this program. >> the question of what to do with that data, the n.s.a., the intelligence community, attorney general eric holder. you gave him 60 plans to to -- 60 days to come up with a plan