Security. i disagree with the reporter. clearly, the bad guys have already changed their way. remember, these were counterterrorism programs essentially, and we have seen that bad guys overseas, terrorists who are committing and plot eight tacks on the united states and our allies, have changed the way they operate. we ve already seen that. to say that that is not harm to feel the national security of the united states or our safety is just dead wrong. and we mentioned the fisa opinion, 80 pages long, doesn t have the opinion but has documents supporting it essentially saying the government overreached, went beyond its authority, and in fact he says we can establish illegality as opposed to what i suggested to him, a judicial review and a change was made. what do you say? this is obviously why the program works. there is judicial review and judicial putback, and rightly so. this is the problem with having a 1,000-piece puzzle, taking three or four pieces and deciding you re now an
And when you look at it, every one of those nations is hostile to the united states. i mean, if he could go to north korea and iran, he could round out his government oppression tour by snowden. so you think about what he says he wants and what his actions are, it defies logic. he has taken information that does not belong to him. it belongs to the people of the united states. he has jeopardized our national security. i disagree with the reporter. clearly, the bad guys have already changed their way. remember, these were counterterrorism programs essentially, and we have seen that bad guys overseas, terrorists who are committing and plotting attacks on the united states and our allies have changed the way they operate. we ve already seen that. to say that that is not harmful to the national security of the united states, or our safety, is just dead wrong. glenn greenwald mentioned he doesn t have the opinion, but got documents supporting it,
Are suggestions that you need to prove it? where do no, sir suggestions get vetted and have we had suggestions where you said no we don t node to d need to do that. there are at two levels that that take place. by statute alternate the office of the director of national security there is alex joel who is an incredibly capable person whose job it is to take a look at our programs. that person would have the requisite clearances to know all the details. absolutely. he is in fact part of this audit process as well, his office is. the second thing is, outside of the intelligence community the president s oversight board which has five confirmed members is also charged with evaluating the impact of our counterterrorism programs on paoeufs se privacy and civil liberties.
Majorly damaged and baseball fields across that area and also reports of homes damaged. not just across the hattiesburg, but lamar county, marion county at least five injuries across the region and we have currently ongoing tornado warnings across the area and we want to show this to you, across parts of southern alabama and mississippi where we still have ongoing warnings and please seek shelter immediately when they re issued. now, more huckabee. the president s drone program which authorizes the targeting killing of americans. it s come under a lot of fire. the president s pick for cia director john brennan tried to defend the strategy during the confirmation hearing. i think the hearing is one of the things that can be done because i think the discourse between the branches are important. i think there need to be continued speeches that are going to be given by the executive branch to explain our counterterrorism programs and we only take such actions
Public conversation about drones so that the american people are brought in to this debate and have a full understanding of what rules the government s going to observe when it conducts targeting killing? i think this hearing is one of the things that can be done because i think this type of discourse is critically important. i believe there need to be continued speeches that are going to be given by the executive branch to explain the counterterrorism programs. i think there s a misimpression on some american people who believe we take strikes to punish terroristses for past transgressi transgressions. nothing could be fourther from the truth. we only take actions as a last resort to save lives when there s no other alternative to taking a ast to mitigate that threat so we need to make sure there s an understanding and the people that were standing up here today, i think they really have a misunderstanding of what we do as a government and the