clearly not doing something that falls along neat partisan lines. there s been a lot of criticism of president obama from civil libertarians on the left and right. you talk about congress being brief and president obama overstated the case, saying every member had been briefed. it s true that members of the key committees had been briefed and there may have been opportunities especially in the senate, for everyone to be briefed if they wanted to be briefed. can we agree that members of conger not doing everything they need to be doing to stay on top of this? can we have bipartisan agreement, that the oversight response should be taken more seriously? my experience is the programs are extraordinarily difficult to stay on top of the they re fast-moving, hard to understand and you have to be in the administration and part of the administration that s operational to understand all that s going on. intelligence committee members are supposed to have that kind of knowledge. they re too d
privacy is protected while protecting the security of americans, and of course congress is involved, they reauthorized the program, members of the intelligence committee are briefed regularly. so yes, much different from warrantless wiretapping. mr. fleischer? yeah, you know president bush has been great so president obama action he ought to act the same way. the fact of the matter is president obama is keeping us safe and doing it the right way. the house he inherited, the foundation upon which our homeland security is built action with the changes of a couple curtains, put in a few more audits is the bush structure. it certainly is, and the president deserves credit for it. that s why i ve been as a republican praising president obama as the anti-terror steps he s taken. it is what george bush put in place. wait just one second. there is a big difference here. it s not about righteousness.
morning post, he says the u.s. has been hacking into computers, according to documents he showed the paper could not verify them. we re healing this just days after president obama was planning to take china s president to task over chinese hacks to the u.s. grid. snowden s face is on every tv screen, news website and front page in the world of the while his exact location is not known, he doesn t seem intent to leaving hong kong. he says i m not here to hide from justice, but reveal criminality. my intention is to ask the courts and people of hong kong to decide my fate. he tells the morning post that the u.s. government is, quote, trying to bully hong kong into extra dieding him. regarding the debate, snowden says i m neither traitor nor hero. i m an american. the loudest voice in congress crying foul over the nsa s once
but five years and a massive security leak later, even left-leaning media outlets are comparing him to his press saysor. check out this photograph. george w. obama so is the old moss that s like me quoting president bush doing the who the other day. let s bring in ari fleischer, molly ball and bill burton. bill, ari has dubbed this bush s fourth term because of the surveillance going on. and he means it as a compliment. does president obama s stance really vary that much from the programs he criticized? yes, a lot. and number one there are safeguards over ever level of this program. you ve got courts and judges involved, and any information that s collected. you ve got obviously throughout the administration folks involved in making sure that
a bill that makes it acceptable to people like me. so far they haven t come to me and said senator rand paul of kentucky, thank you for sharing your views. thank you. one programming note. i ll be filling in for wolf blitzer in the 6:00 hour in the situation room this evening and will talk to someone with a very different view of surisrael jails, former director general michael hayden. if there s one person who has the moral authority to lecture the u.s. on surveillance abuses, it s probably not vladimir putin, but the russian president tube exception in president obama said, quote, you can t have 100% security and 100% privacy. putin said, not have true, he ll say it if it s all done within the law. this is putin, of course, the man who rose to power through 9 k good. b, who runs the government whose journalists have a mysterious