he also paid attention to the case of william benny and thomas drake.gone internally to issue complaints. i mean william denny didn't go to the press. and he went instead to the congress to say these are things that he believed to be in violation of the constitution. and what happened was is he, thomas drake and two others were put under investigation. william benny in particular had the fbi show up at his house with guns. and so -- this is somebody who was in the nsa for over three decades. so i think snowden looked at what was happening in that context of the crackdown on -- but many people like my colleague you know jeremy cahill, define it as a war against whistle blowers and a war against journalism or investigative journalism. the government's come down harder on people trying to inform the public than they have on people who have engaged in torture, for instance. these are complicated times. i think snowden looked at the options and didn't think that there was a way to internally raise concerns about this. so he statewided to go ed-- he decided t

thomas was 92. songwriter ervin drake died thursday in his home outside of new york city, drake broke from his father'secome a composer of a number of popular songs among them it was a very good year. >> ♪ it was a very good year. >> osgood: cbs news anchor walter cronkite had a front row seat when frank sinatra recorded that poignant ballad in 1965. >> ♪ it was a very good year for blue blooded girls of independent means. >> osgood: speaking of very good years ervin drake was inducted into the songwriters hall of fame in 1983. >> "the new york times" quotes him assaying, i had a feeling i never would have been in the furniture man's hall of fame. ervin drake was 95. >> osgood: now bob schieffer in washington for a look at what is ahead on "face the nation". good morning bob. >> good morning charles. we will be talking to british prime minister david cameron about the threat of terror. >> osgood: thank you bob we will be watching. and next week, here on sunday morning -- >> stop the saw blade from going into -- ah! >> osgood: it is magic. >> he is okay, he is okay. >> osgood: penn & teller. >> takes it

march of 1776 a party of radicals drunk rum at drake's tavern and then attacked the printing press of a loyalist printer which was printing responses to thomas paine's "common sense." although it was a difficult process, joseph tiedtman calls new yorkers reluctant revolutionaries, although the revolutionary movement was a difficult process in this way, ultimately new yorkers succeeded in mobilizing their counterparts in the city and the countryside to revolt. not all cities were like new york. they didn't all have the same ethnic and religious diversity the same factional climate of family rivalry. they didn't all have the same clash of ideology among popular whigs, provincial whigs, but in every town tories and more cautious moderate patriots worried about disorder. in every town they dealt with these challenges of mobilization in different ways. but most cities and even some smaller towns succeeded in finding leaders who knew how to mobilize men within tavern culture. people like samuel adams and paul revere or philadelphia-- they hosted committees that corresponded with their counterparts in other towns. new york city was a natural leader