and a special welcome to our troops watching on the american forces network. i'm alison kosik. it's half past the hour. the intelligence community is trying to justify its surveillance of american citizens, sending a letter to congress providing some details about its search of phone records. that letter said in part that searches must involve "reasonable suspicion" about a connection to a terror group that telephone records were searched fewer than 300 times last year and that all phone and internet records must be destroyed after five years. the letter was given to cnn by a congressional source. it was a violent night in istanbul, turkey. turkish security forces stormed gezi park using water cannons and tear gas to force antigovernment protesters out of the park and into side streets. and after hours of fighting, we see this, gezi park completely clear and clean. turkish prime minister erdogan says he plans a counterdemonstration today after the antigovernment message that was sparked over the past two