at utah. that would be ridiculous too. it would give our adversaries a tremendous advantage. we re not going to do that. binny says it misses the point. this is not about the character of his former nsa colleagues. it s about the stunning new capacity to collect, score and analyze data will tempt less than noble leaders if not now, then in the future. it s really a turnkey situation where it can be turned quickly and become a totalitarian state pretty quickly. the capacities to do that is being set up. if we get the wrong person in office or in government, they could make that happen quickly. life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. we balanced those three virtues all the time. the question people like me ask the american people is, so how much more do you want me to do? what can a government computer know and how can it
as the director of the nsa from 1999 to 2005, general michael hayden was drake and binny s boss. they may have a different view. god bless them. this is america. have a different view. i think it made america safe during a period of great danger. hayden says binny and drake were simply wrong, uninformed when they said the program was illegal. apparently congress, which in 2008 explicitly legalized much of the surveillance going on, and president obama who recently reauthorized the law agreed. that makes drake as worried as ever. he believes president obama has used that power even more aggressively than the man accused of shredding the constitution, george w. bush. the reaction is whoa, we never could have gotten away with half of what the obama administration is now doing. if anything, it s significantly expanded. far less transparent than the bush administration?
discontinued that program. the same year suspecting he was a source for the new york times leaks, the fbi raided bill bin i s home. my son answered the door and they pushed him back at gunpoint and then they came upstairs. i was in the shower. the one guy came in and pointed the gun at my head. an fbi agent points a gun at your head and you re naked in the shower. i had a towel. good thing. binny denies being a leaker and ultimately was not charged with any crimes. but a fellow whistle blower was. remember tom drake? his house was searched too? he was indicted on five counts of espionage. the government ultimately tropd the charges where he pleaded guilty with misusing a government computer. i had a contact with the reporter but i would not share anything that was classified in in any way, shape or form. i continue to believe it was effective, lawful and appropriate.
all right, osama bin laden. everybody is looking for him, including one american who decided to take up the hunt on his own. a colorado man, back home now after police in pakistan released him without charging him. gary faulkner had been detained earlier this month near the afghan border. he said he was over there trying to track down bin laden. and in an exclusive interview with cnn, he says he has no regrets. i wasn t looking for publicity. i was looking for binny boy. you know, because i knew he d put people s lives in danger. so, you know, i mean, it s not just so simple as just give a quick interview and everything s good and fine and dandy, because it s not that way. i got off my butt and i put my life on the line to go out there. i know there s i mean, my