credibility. chris: ed henry, thanks for that. what appears to be the white house expanding view of legal authority has critics on both ends of the political spectrum wondering whatever happened to the self-described most transparent administration in history. jim amp tonight on whether you should be concerned about your civil liberties. the relations of scandals and government agencies have been coming what many see is alarming regularity. whoever said these things come in threes was off by several. increase in government snooping of all sorts, looking at your personal records, telephone records, all sorts of things that historically are considered off-limits. first it was revealed that the department of justice had sized the reports of associated press followed by news that email records of fox correspondent james rosen.
of the irs tax exempt division was scapegoating cincinnati. i was furious, it looked like lois lerner was putting it on us. she pled the fifth in a congressional hearing after first trying to defend herself. transcript contradict the initial narrative. chris: mike, thanks for that. attorney general eric holtd ser giving himself a passing grade despite the justice department scandal of targeting journalists. he told lawmakers he is trying to do better but correspondent shannon bream reports, many on capitol hill aren t buying it. i hope would you agree that the american people deserve an attorney general who is completely focused on the fair and impartial administration of law of and justice and not distracted by controversies of his own making. eric holder taking heat from both sides.
program it was basically gathering meta data, three months worth of data about phone calls, billing records and duration of calls. then, allowing using computers to go through and search for patterns in that meta data. they weren t going into the content. chris: if there was a red flag that was raised you had to go back to the fisa court to get permission to go into that who was contacting whom. we just literally found this out in the last half-hour or so. it s an expansion on what george w. bush was doing. i would say the prism program sounds certainly much more invasive than the nsa program. if you look at the nsa program to talk about what we do know or think we know,
chris: the director of national intelligence, james clap they are april flatly denying the government collects information on millions of americans. today we learn the obama administration has been collecting phone records on almost all of us for years. let s bring in our panel. steve hayes, kirsten powers from daily beast and charles krauthammer. we have been struggling while they try to understand the nsa story, if it is new and expansion from the bush program that we started in 2006 and late today, literally in the last half-hour we have learned about a new program, washington post reporting that the obama administration also has a program called prism. i ll leave it to steve hayes to explain? it appears to be according to the washington post story, a program that hacks into
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