there. will we ever know what he s got? the new york times says we won t this morning. i don t know. i really don t. what are the repercussions? he seems to have a negotiating edge on us because he has this overhang in terms of negotiating. i wouldn t do it. i understand the attraction, but i wouldn t do it because that simply motivates future snowdens to do these kinds of things. if the government has all this data, our electronic fingerprint, as it were, inside this haystack. is there a way to encrypt that data? i ve heard you can encrypt the data, and if the government wants access to it, then they need a warrant, essentially, to crack the encryption, to be able to look at it. first thing, it doesn t have all that data. the only place where we re really exhaustive or comprehensive is in the metadata of phone calls. i m comfortable with it, but i understand others not being comfortable with it. i think the key, david, is what do you do with that data?
having a conversation about. i would need reassurances the remainder of the data could be secure. it would be more than just an assertion on his part. current and former intelligence officials make the argument letting snowden off the hook for stealing and leaking information would only encourage others. former c.i.a. and n.s.a. director hayden laid out that position on the sunday talk shows. he seems to have a negotiating edge over us because he can have an overhang. it motivates future snowdens. more than six months since the original leak, it s still unclear how much snowden took and the head of the n.s.a. is saying how he accessed documents that are sometimes referred to
got? the new york times says we won t this morning. i don t know. i really don t. what are the repercussions? he seems to have a negotiating edge on us because he has this overhang in terms of negotiating. i wouldn t do it. i understand the attraction, but i wouldn t do it because that simply motivates future snowdens to do these kinds of things. if the government has all this data, our electronic fingerprint, as it were, inside this haystack. is there a way to encrypt that data? i ve heard you can encrypt the data, and if the government wants access to it, then they need a warrant, essentially, to crack the encryption, to be able to look at it. first thing, it doesn t have all that data. the only place where we re really exhaustive or comprehensive is in the metadata of phone calls. i m comfortable with it, but i understand others not being comfortable with it. i think the key, david, is what do you do with that data? how do you access it?
esther arma, bob franken, and peter sutt eveerman. the fact the u.s. will never know could be of benefit to noed snowden. take a listen. he seems to have a negotiating edge because he can hold this overhang over us a in terms of negotiating. but i wouldn t do it. and i understand the attraction. but i wouldn t do it because that simply motivates future snowdens to do these kinds of things. what do you think about snowden and amnesty? one thing interesting is the idea of how the government treats whistleblowers. so that s a personality question. but the bigger issue is the people and the power and w45 it is the nchlns schlnsa does.
jim clapper wrote letters to congress in 09 and 2011 in which he explicitly said, hey, guys, we re getting it all, in terms of the metadata of phone calls. let me ask you about snowden because this is top of the mind for me. should there be any kind of deal for him, any kind of amnesty? i would strongly oppose that. look, i know there is a great fear he s got a lot more out there. will we ever know what he s got? the new york times says we won t this morning. i don t know. i really don t. what are the repercussions? he seems to have a negotiating edge on us because he has this overhang in terms of negotiating. i wouldn t do it. i understand the attraction, but i wouldn t do it because that simply motivates future snowdens to do these kinds of things. if the government has all this data, our electronic fingerprint, as it were, inside this haystack.