as you said, easier said than done. talk about your book. you write quite a bit about the nsa spying program and do more than write about it. this week holding up legislation in a way, because of your objection to the bulk collection program of meda data expiring june 1st. i want to play sound from some of your rivalling in the republican race. first jeb bush yesterday and next chris christie today. i think he s wrong on saying that this is unconstitutional or saying that people s freedom have been violated by the patriot act. this debate we re having right now about the patriot act whether we should have strong intelligence around the world is is a very dangerous debate because it s being done by people who have no experience dealing with what i ve dealt with. your response? i think for those who know their constitutional history, the fourth amendment is a big deal. john adams said it was the spark that led to our revolution. has to do with search and seizure and having au
the bulk collection program expires june 1st. paul gave up the floor after about 10 1/2 hours. but a few other speakers had joined in on the effort. six of the world s biggest banks have been fined billions of dollars, what the u.s. attorney general calls a breath-taki breath-taking. they re all pleading guilty to criminal charges of conspireing to manipulate the exchange rate of the u.s. dollar and the euro. bank of america has to pay a fine and the swiss bank, ubs, faces a fine for rigging interest rates. the biggest penalty falls on barclay s, has to pay $2.4 billion to regulators in both the u.s. and britain including the hashest fine ever issued by the authority. u.s. attorney general loretta lynch called their behavior a brazen occlusion.
today for the first time a high level federal court ruled that one of the programs disclosed by edward snowden in 2013 is illegal. the opinion for the unanimous three-judge panel, second circuit u.s. court of appeals, reads as a harsh criticism of government s argument that a massive nsa program to collect in bulk the domestic phone records of millions of americans is lawful under section 215 of the patriot act. the judge wrote we hold the text of section 215 cannot bear the weight the government asks us to assign to it it does not authorize the telephone meta data program. section 215 is set to expired next month unless a bill is passed to reauthorize it. patrick leahy of vermont and mike lee of utah released a bipartisan statement that reads in part congress should not reauthorize bulk collection
that one of the programs disclosed by edward snowden in 2013 is illegal. the opinion for the unanimous three-judge panel, second circuit u.s. court of appeals, reads as a harsh criticism of government s argument that a massive nsa program to collect in bulk the domestic phone records of millions of americans is lawful under section 215 of the patriot act. the judge wrote we hold the text of section 215 cannot bear the weight the government asks us to assign to it, it does not authorize the telephone meta data program. section 215 is set to expired next month unless a bill is passed to reauthorize it. patrick leahy of vermont and mike lee of utah released a bipartisan statement that reads in part, congress should not reauthorize bulk collection program that the court has found to violate the law. we will not consent to any extension of this program. this, of course, is the program that raised red flags for senator ron wyden who back in march of 2013 asked director of national intell
section 215 is set to expire next month unless a bill is passed to reauthorize it. patrick leahy of vermont and mike lee of utah released a bipartisan statement that reads in part, congress should not reauthorize bulk collection program that the court has found to violate the law. we will not consent to any extension of this program. this, of course, is the program that raised red flags for senator ron wyden who back in march of 2013 asked director of national intelligence james clapper this very, very pointed question. does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? no, sir. it does not? not wittingly. joining me now, deputy legal director for the aclu. it was the aclu who argued the case before the u.s. court of appeals. congratulations on your victory. thank you. all right. how big a deal is this ruling?