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and the big story this week we're going to dive right into it
is we learned this week courtesy of going greenwald a reporter in blogger
for the guardian
that our government the national security agency has been engaged in a
massive surveillance of the activities of ordinary americans
we learned early this week that the rise in had been providing records to the
national security agency essentially allowing the n_s_a_ the captain and
monitor
phone calls who's making them how long every horizon customer everybody uses of
arising as part of their cell phone appro two home phone service
both records
i've been able to be attacked by the government
and then we also learned a day later in the fall of story that the government
had arrangements with apple and google twitter and yujuico that every essential
internet transaction the government has had the ability to monitor to store this
information to get to collected to put it into their algorithms to try to
figure out
who might be involved in terrorist activity here's one green wall that
msnbc explaining the scope of this program
this program is program in which the essay
takes its hands and sticks it directly into the servers of all of these days of
internet giants face book doodle skye apple you to know that people around the
world he has to happen indications and that's the n_s_a_ grab whatever it is
they want to be there stored emails or real-time communication with nobody
looking over their shoulder nobody watching what they're doing any analyst
in the n_s_a_ sitting at a keyboard candid any moment go into the system and
listen to whatever he wants to read whatever he wants them in storage it is
extremely menacing and there are no checks this is how the world
communicates and the n_s_a_ is monitoring at all times
the obama administration is making a distinction between the ability to
monitor and actually
listening in and president obama and when i was speaking in san jose
california he addressed the issue he addressed the news stories about the
n_s_a_
and the president tried to make it clear that while some of the information is
being fed into these government computers and into algorithms and all
sorts of computations to try to find patterns
that there's nobody who is actually listening in on you here's the president
comes to telephone calls
nobody is listening to your telephone calls
that's not what this program is about
the president and his aides again try to explain about this program is about is
trying to help
osprey venter attacks and catch tera terrace after they engage in attacks
and again it's all through using all this data and information and sipping it
is incredibly high powerful computers and computer analyst
programs to be able to track patterns to be able to find hey if the government
has a particular email us somebody is a suspected terrorists where the people
that that person is communicating with in the united states
the president to has been getting has been getting a ton of criticism this
week in part because he came into office of course vowing to change
some of this uh... big brother type of activities from the previous
administration and keep in mind this program this particular program was
started by george w_ bush under his administration here's the president
coming talking about that what he saw when he came in in the decision that he
made
i am
came in
with a healthy skepticism about studies programs
my team evaluated them we scrub them thoroughly we actually expanded some of
the oversight
increase some of the safeguards
by that
my assessment
and my teens assessment
uh... was then
they help us prevent terrorist attacks
president said that this information that there has been collected that is
being viewed by the government he described these as modest encroachment
on privacy in getting phone numbers and the length of these phone calls
without a name attached mail so again pledge that the government is not in
most cases looking at content
the president went on to say but this is an important conversation that he
welcomes this
you can't have it
a hundred percent security
and also then have a hundred percent
privacy
and zero inconvenience
uh... you know that they uh... we're we're gonna have to make some choices
uh... as a society