was indicted on five counts of espionage. the government dropped the charges for him to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor of misusing a government computer. i continue to believe it was effective. it was lawful and it was appropriate. as the director of the nsa from 1999 to 2005 general michael hayden was drake and binney 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 binney and drake were wrong, uninformed when they said the program was illegal. apparently congress amended the foreign intelligence surveillance act legalizing much of the surveillance going on and president obama agreed. that makes drake as worried as
ever. he believes president obama has used that power even more aggressively than the man democrats accuse much shredding the constitution, george w. bush. i had private conversations people that used to work in the bush administration and their reaction is we he couldn t have gotten away with half of what the obama administration is now doing. the secretive regime has been expanded. far less transparent than the bush administration? yes. that is another reason why they he have become mass critics of the outside data center saying it would have a limitless capacity to pry into americans digital lives. what is the government going to do with it and what could they do with it? what do the roles or oversights mean? the current director of the national security agency general keith alexander. when decline declined requestst down with us for an interview we stopped by the office of a
where it could be turned quickly and become a totalitarian state quickly. the capacity to do that is being set up. if we get the wrong person in office or are in government they could make that happen quickly. life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. we balance the 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 is in a government computer snow and how can this know it? with the nsa number we go to silly mum we go to silicon valley for answers. how many you have an iphone or eye pad or galaxy? put up your hands.
not and target those accordingly. steve, how valuable is this information, first of all in it s collection? and how damaging is it that edward snowden has revealed the at least the parameters of the program? well, my assumption is that the data is extremely valuable in the work that the intelligence community is trying to do but it s not entirely their decision to make about what scope they have to gather and pursue leads here in the united states. that s something that is completely dependent upon what the judicial branch of government says and what the legislative branch says in exercising oversight. one of the questions is if it s so valuable how come it didn t stop boston or have anything to do with the underwear bomber, the shoe bomber, fort hood, little rock there are so many instances and it had nothing to do with stopping it so why are we collecting all of this data and if it s so valuable how come to this day we still haven t
after the fact you can then make connections that go way, way out. that s why we re collecting so much dna. talk about a problem. the dna problem. do you know within 10 or 15 years i predict every child born in america and perhaps in the world will have their dna taken at birth. there will be a universal dna bank and we don t have a firewall between using dna for personal identification as a fingerprint and looking into a person s dna. their genetics how long they re going to live. what diseases they re likely to get, whether they have propensities to violence and crime. dna is the key the government could use to unlock all of our privacy and the supreme court has not been focused on creating protections against that. where is that line, though, alan, between our constitutional right to be protected against search and seizure of our property and information and the government s necessary right to obtain information to stop bad