the general denied a report that accused the nsa of breaking into databases of yahoo! and google. his agency doesn t do it and any information collected from companies like google is provided to them. senator ted cruz of texas, known for vocal opposition to obama care made a comment that angered nigerians. he was making a joke about a troubled obama care website during a speech in houston on monday. here s what he said. have y all noticed the nigerian e-mail scammers? they ve been a lot less active lately because they ve all been hired to run the obama care website. joe johns joins us from washington. apparently a lot of nigerians live in houston where that comment was made. none too happy, apparently. reporter: right. there are nigerian-americans all over the country, but a large
so million phone calls of the vatican along the line of some of the claims we ve heard before. vatican said, don t know about it. don t care. nsa said, in a very carefully worded statement, obtained by anna perez, the fas does not target the vatican. magazine claims the nsa targeted the vatican are not true. look at the statements, that s a carefully worded statement. the question is, did the nsa target some specific individual in the vatican like the pope which this magazine claimed or did some other agency was looking at this type of thing? it s a carefully worded statement. that does not say that the u.s. is not spying on the vatican. so i think this is part of the problem that the administration is having, getting in front, pro actively trying to quash the story, manage it, when you have leaks every day, something different. they need a better strategy to kind of get in front of this, i think, be more transparent
nsa over spying allegations. that would tack a long time. be here all day if we did that. add dole and yahoo! to the list. both companies accusing the nsa of secretly breaking into their databases and collecting information about their millions and millions of users. the nsa, though they came out and said, no, no, didn t do it didn t happen. google and yahoo! saying yes, it did. what the nsa s saying is, whatever it does working with google and yahoo! are within the bounds of the intelligence court. the companies arement dated to give them the information. they don t need to access their databases illegally. the program talked about, this it s called muscular, operated between jointly between the uk counterpart and the nsa is outside of the bounds of this domestic court. so the question is, look, they ve said in the past that they re sifting through all of
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these foreign e-mails for key words that might trip them up. might be listing to something. it s about the parsing of words. what are they collecting? collecting things that people are looking for, searching for? this is metadata, again, right? they re not accessing actual e-mails but sifting through, mining data so they can have data points. if you have a phone call that causes some concern, and if you have an e-mail that causes concern, this is supposed to help them connect the dots and foil anything that might be in the works. connecting phone numbers who s calling them. all right. good to see you. one more question. one more. the pope. the pope. yes. the pope. they are spying on the pope? tell us about that. what s that? a story in an italian magazine between 2012 and 2014, 13, the nsa was spying on 46 or