0 allegedly stopped terrorist attacks. i m craig melvin. new revelations by intelligence officials come as president obama declares, he is no dick cheney. since the programs were leaked to the press, the president said the government is not reading your e-mail or listening to your phone calls. he also pushed back against comparisons to his predecessor s controversial policies and equally controversial right hand man. some people say obama was this raving liberal before, now he s dick cheney. dick cheney sometimes says yeah, he took it all lock, stock and barrel. my concern has always been not that we shouldn t do intelligence gathering to prevent terrorism but rather, are we setting up a system of checks and balances. here with me now, nbc news national investigative correspondent, michael isikoff. michael, we have been listening to this hearing for a while now. releasing four out of more than 50 terror plot they say have been foiled since 9/11. talk to me a little bit about the fo
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a second example also occurring in 2009 involved one of those involved perpetrators of the mumbai bombing in india, david hedley. we aborted a plot against danish news publisher based on the same kind of information. so those are two specific cases of uncovering plots through this mechanism that prevented terrorist attacks. now americans might say, yes, but terrorists succeeded in boston at the marathon. terrorists have succeeded elsewhere and not been thwarted despite all of this information that s gathered by nsa. well, that s true. and i find it a little ironic that in several weeks ago after the boston bombings, we were accused of not being sufficiently intrusive. we are we failed to determine
0 cannot legally obtain in the united kingdom. this accusation is baseless. any data obtained by us from the united states involving uk nationals is subject to proper uk statutory controls and safeguards. in florida today, jury selection begins in the second degree murder trial of george zimmerman for the shooting death of trayvon martin. and worldwide concerns today about nelson mandela. the latest on the 94-year-old s condition as he spends a third day in the hospital. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we can now put a face and a name on the massive nsa leak to the guardian and washington post. 29-year-old edward snowden. he says he was motivated by his hatred for the nsa s surveillance programs, programs vigorously defended by the director of national intelligence, james clapper, in an interview this weekend. the notion that we re trolling through everyone s e-mails and voyeuristically reading them or listening to everyone s phone calls is, on its face, absurd
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