whistleblower edward snowden has always maintained his motivation was to force a serious conversation about the all encompassing surveillance state well he certainly has achieved this so with mission accomplished is it time to cut a deal with them for even grant him a pardon. to cross-talk edward snowden i'm joined by my guest mary fan in seattle she is a professor at the university of washington and a former federal prosecutor in washington we have ray mcgovern he is the co-founder of veteran intelligence professionals for sanity and in new york we cross to timothy car he is a senior director of strategy at free press all right folks cross talk rolls in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it if i go to you first in washington isn't it time to cut a deal with mr snowden i mean he's made his point everybody knows his name if you can if you're literate you know who he is anywhere in the world we certainly know a whole lot more about the n.s.a. i mean isn't it time to move forward in reform the n.s.a. in the intelligence community and let this guy o

a pardon. to cross edward snowden i'm joined by my guest mary fan in seattle she is a professor at the university of washington and a former federal prosecutor in washington we have ray mcgovern he is the co-founder of veteran intelligence professionals for sanity and in new york we cross to timothy car he is a senior director of strategy at free press all right folks cross talk rolls in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it if i go to you first in washington isn't it time to cut a deal with mr snowden i mean he's made his point everybody knows his name if you can if you're literate you know who he is anywhere in the world we certainly know a whole lot more about the n.s.a. i mean isn't it time to move forward in reform the n.s.a. in the intelligence community and let this guy off the hook he did everyone a huge favor peter i guess i would have problems with your freeze here elegy here cutting a deal. snowden has lived up to a solemn oath to protect and defend the constitution the united states against all the enemies foreign and domestic u.s

gee here cutting a deal edward snowden has lived up to its solemn oath to protect and defend the constitution the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic a u.s. district judge now has reiterated the fact that. the n.s.a. as he put it has indiscriminately and charlie invaded our privacy in direct violation of the fourth amendment it's not that we should cut a deal with edward snowden we should praise him welcome him home for exposing what what i call incipient fascism is like when the government has all kinds of information on all kinds of people and can use it for all kinds of purposes ok timothy it well there are voices in the n.s.a. that think that they the government should talk to mr snowden i in principle i agree with ray don't get me wrong here but cutting a deal is what's being talked about meaning no more leaks and you will clear your name ok this is the kind of deal and i'm not saying it's the best deal but it is a deal that's being talked about timothy go ahead well i would say that they don't need to strike a deal at all the the whole premise of the char

was. coming up on r t edward snowden has declared victory in a washington post interview the n.s.a. whistleblower said his mission was accomplished we'll talk details with the reporter who met with snowden next and billion dollar bonuses wall street bankers are pondering how to spend their holiday bonuses but one group says it's obvious where all that money should go straight to the people who the banks made homeless we'll tell you more coming up. and where do you get your drinking water from odds are you buy it off the shelf we'll take a look at the bottled water industry and how it's cashing in by marking those prices up all of that and more later in the show. it's tuesday december twenty fourth four pm in washington d.c. i'm lynn neary david and you're watching our t.v. begin today with the latest from n.s.a. contractor edward snowden in an exclusive one on one interview with barton gellman of the washington post snowden explained that he's completed his goal he said quote for me in terms of personal satisfaction the mission's already accomplished i already won as soon as the jo

midnight tonight. and they say leaker edward nsa leaker edward snowden telling "the washington post" that his mission is accomplished. what are your thoughts on what mr. snowden had to say? republicans, (202) 585-3881. .emocrats, (202) 585-3880 independence and all others, (202) 585-3882. ord us a tweet @cspanwj e-mail us. the front page of "the washington post" has the conducted by a reporter who went to moscow for the interview. edward snowden says i already won. mission is accomplished. sitting down with edward snowden for 14 hours over two days, nonstop interviewing. edward snowden called himself a russian house cat. never leaving his place in asylum from seeks the u.s. and stays in russia. tweetedhington post" several quotes. snowden saying i wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself. he tweeted -- "the washington post" tweeted this. i wanted the public to have a say. post," i defected from the government to the public. also, edward snowden saying this. he is working to improve bnsf. -- the nsa. i am still working for the nsa right now. they are th

regulates it. >> edward snowden says his job is finished, many say he won the year by disclosing the most secret. some sahl him a traitor others a hero. we'll hear from both sides of the issue. we'll talk about the future of towner terrorism with former nsa and cia boss general michael hey den and snowden's advisor and nsa former employee. we'll hear from reporters who broke the snowden news. mark gellman of the "washington post." then return the technology and privacy, 2013 set the report for internet usage on smart phones. what's next in 2014 we'll he ask a panel of experts. the year in surveillance and new technologies will change our lives, it's all ahead on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. substituting for bob schieffer cbs news chief white house correspondent major garrett. >> good morning again, welcome to "face the nation." we start today with what may be the biggest story of the year, it began back in june when national security agency contractor edward snowden began leaking top secret documents, dis

because i am. coming up on r t edward snowden speaks again this time it's to the people of brazil the n.s.a. whistleblower has offered to help the nation investigate u.s. surveillance but this time he wants something in return details on that just ahead and in texas the fracking industry is on fire literally homeowners fear the controversial practice is lighting up their drinking water an in-depth look at the boom that we leaving locals busted coming up and in pennsylvania a bar of soap can land you in handcuffs two people spent a month in jail after police mistook homemade so for cocaine we talked to the lawyer scrubbing their records clean later in the show. it's tuesday december seventeenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm lynn neary david and you're watching. and we begin today with an open letter that edward snowden has written to the people of brazil now in the letter which was published today in brazil's full han newspaper snowden said he'd be willing to help brazil investigate and i say spying on its soil but could not fully participate in doing so without being granted poli

thousands of families left powerless after a big storm hit hard. i already won, nsa leaker edward snowden gives a surprise interview in moscow, why he says he has already accomplished what he set out to do. >>> and midnight mass, the message from pope francis tonight, leading his first christmas at the vatican. we'll go live to st. peters. nightly news begins now. >>> good evening, i'm tamron hall, in tonight for brian, and tonight, after seven and a half hours with some touch and go moments for two american astronauts, a risky and difficult space walk is over in time for christmas. the two americans had to make a critical repair to the international space station, and nbc's kerry sanders has been monitoring their space walk step by step from our miami bureau, kerry, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, tamron, a replacement pump is now in place on the international space station. the space walk to position that pump is really only the second space walk ever on a christmas eve. the last one was 14 years ago. >> and our first view of mike hopkins. >> reporter: astronauts mike hopkins a

reviewed the revelations by former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden which exposed america's massive surveillance. the old your organization. branch. we also hear from wiki leaks founder julian assange the state of journalism today and his new media stand a road movie where he and others offer up secret documents to various media outlets . broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our john thomas let's get right to our top stories now investigators say they're looking at a number of possibilities of who carried out a suicide bomb attack in the southern russian city of volgograd some evidence now suggests a man that may have been involved in the first reports said it was alone a female suicide bomber it has been confirmed fifteen people were killed in the attack which targeted the city's central weyl railway station. as details. the bomb went off just before one pm on the guards busy train station degeneration ripped through an area around a security checkpoint as in suspecting passengers waited for their luggage to be inspected before i bend down to collect my docum

station to try to fix a critical cooling system. bill whitaker has the latest. edward snowden declares "mission accomplished" after his leaks forced a reassessment of u.s. surveillance programs. bob orr reports. america's retailers won't be celebrating. anna werner looks at the disappointing numbers from this year's holiday shopping season. and it happened one christmas eve. dean reynolds on the picture that changed the way we look at our world. >> oh, my god, l captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> brown: good evening. scott is off tonight. i'm james brown. this is our western edition. when something breaks on the international space station, there is no repairman to call so today, two astronauts suited up for the second time this week to complete the job of fixing a critical cooling system. a pump broke earlier this month, and today's mission was to swap out the old one with the new one. bill whitaker has the story. >> reporter: traveling almost 18,000 miles per hour, 260 miles above the earth, astronauts mike hopkins and rick masstrachio st

thirteen a we review the revelations by former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden which exposed america's mass surveillance. the old media organizations are simply a branch of the establishment. we also talk to we could leaks founder julian assange about the state of journalism today and his new media standard road movie where he and others offer up secret documents to various media outlets. and broadcasting a lot of direct from our studios in moscow this is our team sean thomas let's get right to our top story in investigators say they are looking at a number of possibilities of who carried out a suicide bomb attack in the southern russian city of volgograd that killed fifteen people ninety's correspondent margaret how will be joining us later with more information we'll bring you her report a little bit later but anti-war activist don de bar now he believes that the international community should have bring to account the state actors that enable such terrorist attacks. people on the ground who did this perhaps may be you know anonymous players just individuals who are incited

thousand and thirteen we review the revelations by former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden which exposed america's mass surveillance. the old media organizations of. our branch and. we'll also talk to you leaks founder julian assange about the state of journalism today and his new media stand up movie where he and others offer up secret documents to various media outlets. and a live one from our studios in moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas let's look at our top story for that night now investigators say that they are looking at a number of possibilities of who carried out a suicide bomb attack in the southern russian city of volgograd that killed fifteen people artie's correspondent margaret howell is at the scene of the tragedy near the railway station. well i'm standing here in volgograd literally a short path down from the volgograd regional train depot just behind me where a bomb went off sunday december twenty ninth killing a fifteen people so far and a sixteenth person believed to be the suicide bomber over thirty five people in new to change now though it was originally reported

consolidate of the nsa phone data collection. we will discuss that ruling and the snowden effect when "guardian" spencer ackerman joins us. first lawrence o'donnell explains challenges faced by millions of children in africa and how a campaign to overcome them to the power of school desks. that is next on "now." a can of del monte green beans? ♪ ♪ if i was a flower growing wild and free ♪ ♪ all i'd want is you to be my sweet honeybee ♪ ♪ and if was a tree growing tall and green ♪ ♪ all i'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves ♪ grown in america. picked & packed at the peak of ripeness. the same essential nutrients as fresh. del monte. bursting with life™. the same essential nutrients as fresh. wout of landfills each year? plastic waste to cover mt. rainier by using one less trash bag each month, we can. and glad forceflex bags stretch until they're full.* so you can take them out less often. has some very special power. ♪ [ toys chattering ] it's filled with new duracell quantum batteries. [ toy meows ] [ dog whines ] [ toy meows ] these red batteries are so

coming up on r t edward snowden speaks again this time it's to the people of brazil the n.s.a. whistleblower has offered to help the nation investigate u.s. surveillance but this time he wants something in return details on that just ahead and in texas the fracking industry is on fire literally homeowners fear the controversial practice is lighting up their drinking water and in depth look at the boom that's leaving locals busted coming up. and in pennsylvania a bar of soap can land you in handcuffs two people spent a month in jail after police mistook homemade soap for cocaine we talked to the lawyer scrubbing their records clean later in the show. it's tuesday december seventeenth in washington d.c. i'm here at david and you're watching our team we begin tonight with breaking news at least two people a gunman and another person have been killed in a shooting today at a hospital in reno nevada that's all according to the reno police department the gunfire occurred this afternoon at the renown medical center and according to the city's communications center the shooter went to

vindication for edward snowden, a white house- appointed panel urges sweeping changes at the nsa and an end to the agencies bulk collection of phone records of all americans. we will speak with nsa whistleblower kirk wiebe as well as edward snowden's legal advisor ben wizner. then we go to egypt where else to president mohamed morsi is facing charges of committing terrorist acts and treason. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a white house-appointed task force has proposed a series of curbs on key national security agency surveillance operations following leaks by former nsa contractor edward snowden. on thursday, the panel recommended that hold its collection of billions of american phone calls, sending "the additional risks to public trust, personal privacy, and civil liberties." the phone records should be held by telecommunications providers or have a third party. underminings for its encryption and criticized its use of computer programming flaws to mount cyber attacks. at the white house, press se

xfone collection records program exposed by edward snowden, new details emerge about a secretive nsa unit hacks into computers around the world. sometimes the nsa even intercepts computers purchased online in order to place spyware on them before the customer receives them. we will speak to journalists glenn greenwald and jameel jaffer of the aclu. >> there is a broader pattern here in which the courts are advocating their role under our constitutional system. they are supposed to be ensuring the government's national security policies are consistent with the constitution. instead, what is happening as many of these challenges are being thrown out at the threshold. >> despite long-term unemployment being at its highest level since world war ii, 1.3 million americans have just lost their unemployment benefits. we will look at why. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. opposition activists are claiming over 500 people have died in weeks of syrian government airstrikes on the city of aleppo. the steering obse

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review the revelations by former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden which exposed america's mass surveillance the old media organizations. branch and. we also talk to wiki leaks founder julian assange about the state of journalism today and his new media stand up the road movie where he and others offer up secret documents to various media outlets. live from moscow this is our team sean thomas glad to have you with us it has been reported in that another victim of the terror attack in the southern russian city of volgograd has died in the hospital sixteen people are now among those killed investigators are looking at a number of possibilities of who carried out that suicide bombing artie's correspondent margaret how is it near the scene of the tragedy by the railway station. well i'm standing here in volgograd literally a short path down from the volgograd regional train depot just behind me where a bomb went off sunday december twenty ninth though it was originally reported that it was a female suicide bomber now believed to be a male by law enforcement officials possibly a male

coming up on r t edward snowden has declared victory in a washington post interview the n.s.a. whistleblower said his mission was accomplished we'll talk details with the reporter who met with stone the next and billion dollar bonuses wall street bankers are pondering how to spend their holiday bonuses while one group says it's obvious where all that money should go straight to the people who the banks made homeless we'll tell you more coming up and in the world's ocean floats millions of tons in trash it's a great concern for environmentalists as it makes changes to the earth to change a deeper look at a trashed ocean later in the show. it's tuesday december twenty fourth and on your i david in washington d.c. and you're watching our t.v. we begin today with the latest from n.s.a. contractor edward snowden in an exclusive one on one interview with barton gellman of the washington post so on and explained that he's completed his goal he said for me in terms of personal satisfaction the mission's already accomplished i already won as soon as the journalists were able to work ev

twenty thirteen a year that's all cia contractor turned whistleblower edward snowden exposed america's far reaching global surveillance the old media overnight stations are simply a branch of the establishment. really leaks founder julian assange stalks to us about journalists failing to challenge governments as we discussed media stand a road movie about activist on a mission to reveal sensitive u.s. secrets. it's midnight in moscow you're watching archie international with me and he's now a straight to our top story this hour investigators say they're looking at a number of possibilities about who carried out a suicide bomb attack in the southern russian city of volgograd some evidence now suggest a man may have been involved the first reports said it was a lone female suicide bomber it's been confirmed fifteen people were killed in the attack which targeted the city's central railway station. has details. remnants of a man's body have been found at the scene of the blast according to various reports there is there a remnant of a hand clutching a grenade pin and there's als

shaped twenty thirteen a year that saw cia contractor turned whistleblower edward snowden exposed america's far reaching global surveillance. the old media over the information to be a branch of the establishment. wiki leaks founder julian assange stalks to us about journalists failing to challenge governments as we discussed media stana wrote a movie about activist on a mission to reveal sensitive u.s. secrets. live from our studios in moscow you're watching r t international with me and he said now a straight to our top story investigators say they're looking at a number of possibilities about who carried out a suicide bomb attack in the southern russian city of volgograd some evidence now suggests a man may have been involved the first reports said it was a lone female suicide bomber it's been confirmed fifteen people were killed in the attack which targeted the city's central railway station archies arena has the details. the bomb went off just before one pm on the cross busy train station it did to nation ripped through an area around a security checkpoint as in suspecting pa

. surveillance saga here's artie's sam sachs. the week started with edward snowden reaching out to brazil and the n.s.a. making a p.r. push with the help of sixty minutes but the week is ending very very differently on monday the federal courthouse behind me delivered the first legal blow to the n.s.a. signature bulk phone records collection program a program that the world just learned about back in june as a result of edward snowden's disclosures in the case judge richard leon said i cannot imagine a more indiscriminate an arbitrary invasion than the systematic and high tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every citizen for purposes of querying it and analyzing it without prior judicial approval surely such a program infringes on the degree of privacy of the founders in shrines in the fourth amendment the program will be shut down in six months pending a government appeal after the ruling journalist glenn greenwald was quick to explain the significance of what just happened it's an extraordinary ruling ari and it's an absolute in the case and somewhere to s

edward snowden revealed it that can collect phone records on each and every call americans make. the district court ruling it probab probably eliminates search and seizure protections. i cannot maj a more indiscriminate and arbitrary invasion than this systematic high-tech data on virtually every citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval. and a george bush judicial appointee called it orwellian and aghast at the scope of it. but did hold off six months before shutting it down while they give their opinion. t they said they did believe it was constitutional. and edward snowden said i acted on my belief that nas's mass swales programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge and the american people deserved to see it. a secret program by a secret court exposed to the light of day found to violate americans righ rights. and he is still in a world of trouble. cbs news' john miller asked the head of the task force investigating the leaks whether he would consider cutting a deal with snowden to get it back. >> he's already said if i got amnesty

some of its most secret programs were leaked by contractor edward snowden. perhaps because of that pressure, the agency gave "60 minutes" unprecedented access to n.s.a. headquarters, where we were able to speak to employees who have never spoken publicly before. full disclosure-- i once worked in the office of the director of national intelligence, where i saw firsthand how secretly the n.s.a. operates. it is often said "n.s.a." stands for "never say anything," but tonight, the agency breaks with that tradition to address serious questions about whether the n.s.a. delves too far into the lives of americans. >> keith alexander: the fact is, we're not collecting everybody's email, we're not collecting everybody's phone things, we're not listening to that. our job is foreign intelligence and we're very good at that. >> miller: the man in charge is keith alexander, a four-star army general who leads the n.s.a. and the u.s. cyber- command. there is a perception out there that the n.s.a. is widely collecting the content of the phone calls of americans. is that true? >> alexander: no, tha

big events of 2013 and one of the faces that we will remember -- that is that of edward snowden. >> and 70 people in the arctic are gearing up to celebrate their own new year's. we will tell you about the latest land to rescue them. stay with us. stay with us. >> welcome back. new year's celebrations are already under way for millions of people in the pacific. partygoers on the islands of samoa were the first to ring in 2014. >> about an hour ago, australia joined in the fun. people in sydney started the new year in style with an incredible fireworks display at the sydney harbour bridge. not bad. >> that looks incredible. >> in berlin, there are about eight hours and 40 minutes -- not that we are counting -- to go until the clocks strike midnight. >> big crowds are expected to join the public party at the brandenburg gate in the center of the city, and you could watch live right here on dw. >> another german new year's tradition is an address to the nation by the chancellor. in fact, it is becoming a tradition. >> after winning her third electoral victory, angela merkel has reco

us edward snowden's name became synonymous with the steady stream of revelations about how america's national security agency might literally be keeping an eye on everyone the former n.s.a. contractor rist his life and freedom by downloading nearly two million secret files before fleeing the u.s. and then going up in russia here's how that amazing journey unfolded well the first snowden disclosure was published by britain's guardian newspaper on june the fifth it revealed that the n.s.a. collected numerous phone records from a u.s. telecoms giant because nobody actually knew snow was until four days later when the whistleblower revealed his identity then that's right it took prosecutors in the states another five days to actually charge snowden under the espionage act meaning that he faces decades in prison well snowden was in hong kong by then he flew on to a moscow you may recall drug in washington into a global game of catch me if you can snowden was supposed to fly to cuba but instead journalists and those who just wanted to see him in person were left staring at an empty airplan

whistleblower edward snowden expose america's far reaching global surveillance. the old media over there is simply a branch of the establishment. wiki leaks founder julian assange says talks started to you about journalists failing to challenge governments as we discussed media staff a road movie about activists on a mission to reveal sensitive u.s. secrets. from our studios in moscow you're watching r t international with me and he said now wait let's get straight to our developing story this hour several versions are emerging about who's carried out this suicide bomb attack in the southern russian city of volgograd some evidence allegedly points it was a man while the first reports said it was a female suicide bomber it's been confirmed fifteen people were killed in the bombing which targeted the city's central railway station archies arena brings us the details. the remnants of a man's body have been found at the scene of the blast according to various reports there is the remnants of a hand clutching a grenade and there's also reports of a grenade that was just covered just a little

substantive ruling we've gotten on the several lawsuits that were filed after snowden leaked that information in june that made public the fact that the national security agency meditative program was going on now the decision that was amended data collected is likely unconstitutional and that's what the judge calls it anyway what does that actually mean and what does this ruling realistically do well the reason he says it's likely unconstitutional is this is a preliminary ruling it's a ruling at the early stages of this lawsuit there is not been all that a geisha and back and forth to develop a record that would show the details of how the program works and what its impact may have been what specific information work what was collected about these individuals who sued so the judge had to make a decision at the outset of this lawsuit about whether he would allow permission to continue to be collected and he bound it as a legal matter if they're divided at the moment and that it shouldn't be allowed to continue his decision doesn't have any immediate effect in the sense that he did say it so t

that mine for america's mission in afghanistan? also, edward snowden sends a special holiday message back to the u.s. saying mission accomplished. but what is the real impact on the nsa? also, a plus sized barbie reigniting a firestorm of controversy over what childhood dolls should look like and their impact on body image. and a british invasion on tv. why are sherlock, downton abbey and other shows from the uk all the rage here on american tv sets? hello, everyone. i'm adam may sitting in for antonio mora. welcome to "consider this." we begin with two international hots spots where u.s. policy does not seem to be working write now. starting in iraq, more than two years after president obama declared the iraq war was over, now the u.s. is sending hellfire missiles and surveillance drones to that country as the baghdad government battles a renewed al qaeda insurge incy. more than 7,000 civilians, close to a thousand iraqi security forces have died in attacks just this year alone. among the latest victims, at least 26 people that were killed in 38 more wounded in an attack on a baghda

soon for now though american activists are calling on president obama to pardon edward snowden who of course is still in russia around a temporary asylum u.s. auto already is want him to stand trial for leaking details on the n.s.a. snooping well the plight of whistleblowers has been documented in a new film called media star and it's shot by a crew of wiki leaks journalists and it costs light on their dangerous mission to seek any new media that will publish or even broadcast their wiki leaks secrets reports. it's been described as a wiki leaks or road movie following the journey of a group of wiki leaks associates across central asia searching for media outlets to help publish secret diplomatic cables with making me do. something which which i would like to call an acid test and our acid test was one of the u.s. state department cables where you give these cables to certain. publications and see how they react to it most of the publications had difficulties in responding to publishing secrets that had to do with the united states with empire in our world johannes wall strong helped

the case with mr. snowden? what happened with the internal procedures? my third question will be, in your introduction, using without u.s..k. as an ally of the are there any other particular european countries that you wanted to highlight? that i amuestion is wondering if you have actually seen evidence, or any indications, that any information has been used orinst political adversaries would be allowed to use it, explicitly allowed to use it against political adversaries. thank you. bakingar as the swings , theyss banking concern reported that the usa had turned .id the swiss banking system that is the reporting that we have done so far. clearly, they are part of the target of the nsa. as far as the internal procedures and exhausting them, mr. stood in explained that he had -- mr. snowden explained that he had. he was dismissed. therest important point is that the intelligence committee of the united states was aware of the wrongdoing, and were trying to warn the public, but were constrained by law by telling anyone about it. they were rendered impotent. they were barred from speaki

been in this spot like such as that sounds manning snowden do they deserve scorn or praise. are they. there's a mix of the two really i think the big one of course has been edward snowden and. i think that the information he provided was very important because we didn't know the extent of government surveillance of our e-mail or saw or telephone course. and we did in this country a couple of years ago the government tried to pass a bill through parliament called the data communications bill which would have allowed to force communications suppliers providers to provide details of the balance telephone calls and such like. peas threw that out the parliamentarians through that and said we don't want it please ministers this is a prime minister of going into parliament said we need this bill when actually they had all the data already they were lying to parliament so that's some major issue there but more importantly of course there is this whole surveillance issue and how people feel about a government the prize in everything you do absolutely everything now but also we've seen in

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the program is, in fact, constitutional. there is this from edward snowden, i acted on my belief that the nsa programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge. that the american public deserved a chance to see these issues determined by open court. today he goes on with the following. as for snowden. he is still in a world of trouble. he still has got a trunk load of classified material he is yet to release. and in a report last night, john miller asked the head of the task force investigating the leaks whether he would consider cutting a deal with snowden to get it back. >> he has already said if i got amnesty, i would come back. given the potential damage to national security what would your thought on making a deal be? >> my personal view is, yes, it's worth having a conversation about. i would need assurances that the remainder would be secured. my bar for those assurances would be very high. an assertion on his part. >> a federal judge says that the nsa program violates the constitution. does that vindicate what edward snowden did? >> i don't think so. but what snowden exp

of the first pieces of information leaked by edward snowden. aclu thinks this ruling vindicates him. >> this is what happens when important legal issues are decided in open courts where both sides get to make legal arguments rather than in secret courts where the government alone gets to present arguments to a court. this is, i think, a good day for edward snowden. >> as for edward snowden, he has something else in mind, too. that would be brazil. nsa leaker wrote an open letter to the brazilian people, telling them he would be tolg help brazilian's government investigate u.s. spieg on its soil but would only do so if granted political asylum. jim sciutto is in washington with more on this part of the story. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. he may have chosen well in choosing brazil. one of the country's most upset over the surveillance overseas. the brazilian president, dilma roussef confronted the president directly, saying tampering in such a manner in the affairs of other countries is a breach of international law. edward snowden reaching out, looking for a way out of ru

snowden. the former national security agency contractor who released thousands of classified documents about government surveillance in one of the most significant leaks in u.s. history. he's been charged with espionage and has been living in russia under temporary asylum. the american journalist at the center of the story lives in brazil. >> we've had to come to rio to speak to glenn greenwald. he hasn't returned to the united states since he broke the story about the nsa surveillance programs for fear of being prosecuted. >> the nsa's goal really is the elimination of privacy globally. it is literally a system designed to monitor all forms of human behavior inside the united states, which is the ultimate surveillance state. >> last december, glenn greenwald received an email from a person who didn't identify himself. >> we still didn't know who he was, where he worked, but he was saying he had access to large amounts of very sensitive surveillance information that show the united states government was violating the law and abusing it's power. >> suddenly in my lap had dropped some of

constitution. edward snowden, the nsa contractor who revealed these programs to the world applauded the court ruling yesterday. he also sent an open letter to the people of brazil offering to help investigate u.s. surveillance against them and reminding the world that he's still looking for political asylum. now, the tech firms invited to the white house today released a joint statement a few minutes ago reading quote, we appreciated the opportunity to share directly with the president our principles on government surveillance that we released last week and we urge him to move aggressively on reform. i want to bring in our senior white house correspondent brianna keilar. the president's meeting with all these tech gurus was a closed meeting but what details can you give us about what the executives were pushing for? >> reporter: well, jake, it was a long meeting, obviously, and they covered a lot of ground on it. a participant in the meeting telling cnn they talked about a number of things, including collection so broad blanket collection of metadata, internet usage, phone calls, as wel

former edwards former contractor edward snowden he said i acted on my belief that the n.s.a. is mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge and that the american public deserves a chance to see these issues determined by open courts today a secret program authorized by secret by a secret courts was when exposed to the light of day found to violate americans rights it is the first of many so this decision was deemed likely unconstitutional what does that realistically mean in what does it really do right so it's kind of the this isn't a sort of in a. funny procedural posture right now so what happened was that there were several plaintiffs in the case and basically they said our own constitutional rights have been violated by the collection of all of this information so the judge looked at that looked broadly at this very broad collection but then said yes for these particular people i think it violates their constitutional rights but he also said i'm not really making a decision on the constitutionality yet what i'm determining is what my most likely dec

business from 2013, including the surveillance programs exposed by edward snowden. on monday, a federal judge said the collection of phone records of millions of americans is probably unconstitutional. then, on wednesday, a panel appointed by the president said the program needs to be reigned in. well, today, the president signaled that he's ready to do that. but is he ready to cut the fugitive snowden any slack? snowden was granted asylum by russia. he's charged with stealing and spreading classified information. major garrett asked the president about all this at the news conference today. major? >> reporter: scott, the idea of the obama administration granting amnesty or negotiating a plea agreement with edward snowden was first raised by rick leggett, he's the head of the government task force on the snowden leaks. under what circumstances would you consider either a plea agreement or amnesty for edward snowden? and what do you say to americans, sir, who believe edward snowden set in motion something that is proper and just in this country about the scope of surveillance and

provided by edward snowden. this is one hour and 20 minutes. >> chemical to me to order and welcome our witness for today session. you are giving evidence as part intoe committee's inquiry counterterrorism. thank you very much for coming here this afternoon. can i refer all those present to interestser where the of the defenders of this committee are omitted. can ask other members to declare any special interests? for've written two articles "the guardian" on this issue. i should say we are all "guardian" readers. some of us more avidly than others. we all declare our interest. i did read it this morning. can we just be clear at the start that there was reference to some newspapers are your been compelled to come here against your wishes? we wrote you an invite you to come here and you are part of that inquiry. you don't feel under any compulsion to you? >> i wasn't aware it was optional. >> when you said yes there's no need to pursue that further. informationect to that you've got for mr. snowden, you only published one percent of the information that you were given. is that still corr