we ve seen evidence subsequent to this revelations that the surveillance court supposed to oversee and monitor nsa surveillance, didn t have full information because nsa didn t provide it to them. you see that obviously a number of lawmakers on capitol hill weren t aware of how nsa was executing certain programs and now we also see that the wousz wasn t aware of at least some of fairly key surveillance programs that nsa had underway as it relates to foreign leaders. in your piece, you discuss that traditionally the u.s. had this agreement with four other countries known as five eyes where they don t spy on each other. some of the ramifications from these documents released by snowden, obviously germany and other european countries want this same deal. how is this playing out? we ve heard from carney briefly today, jay carney here. but the relationship the president has particularly with
because the monitoring dates go back to 2002 on angela merkel, which also would explain from the officials quoted here why the president would not be brought into the loop on this. as bizarre as that sounds to some people. at what level it sounds a little odd. you could see a situation where a program starts as far back as 2002 and keeps nsa is a very large organization with incredibly monitoring surveillance programs and these things kind of have unless someone puts a stop to them. many are processing what this means to the world and the u.s. reputation as we know european leaders are quite angry over these revelations. i want to play with european parliament member from germany, some of the reaction coming in. frustration, anger and have the feeling that no one is
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the president feels strongly about making sure we are not just collecting information because we can, but because we should. phone call the president had with chancellor merkel made sure we do not and will not monitor the chancellor s communications. another report out today, this one in a spanish paper el mundo, the nsa tracked over 60 million calls in spain in one month. documents provided by nsa leaker edward snowden. the spanish government summoned the american ambassador asking for an explanation. this weekend, thousands of protesters marched on capitol hill demanding an end to the government surveillance program at home and abroad. many carried signs praising snowden and thanking him for blowing wistle on the nsa by leaking classified documents. this comes as international outrage builds over the broad scope of the nsa s data gathering over years.
european leaders continue to put pressure on the country to for a new spying deal on allies. chefon, thank you so much for your time. thank you. let s explain why it is some officials have explained perhaps why the president would not know about this for five years. as it was explained to us, this type of surveillance is the type of program or decision that would be executed at the level of the national security agency and the way the protocols are set up at this point, that s sort of where the line of information would stop. there isn t necessarily a reason why they would tell the white house there s no protocol that insists that they do. and in the case of the monitoring the chancellor merkel and some 35 other leaders, nsa hadn t brought it to the white house s attention. the dates are significant