i think 34% of it is contracted out to private enterprise, people like james snowden who don t or maybe are not beholden to the operation in the same way that a government employee would be. you cannot think that there will be more sort of information coming out as more young men who are sort of fairly ideological, presumably as he was, he went to fight in iraq. the more they re fed into the system and given the magnitude of the system, the more there will be leaks like this. it is important to separate out public opinion, concrete examples of genuine abuse. but the third issue is whether it is constitutional or not. which is a completely open question. james clapper s argument right now it is fully constitutional for the government to capture everything and store it in the library. and the fourth amendment only applies to when you take the book off the shelf. maybe that is something that is a perfectly legitimate
sort of leading the fight on this. and they re trying to gain more transparency on what exactly is happened. but that is basically shut down at the supreme court because of the invoking the privilege resources. i mean, i have to think, lawrence, give the massive, massive nature of the surveillance enterprise and the fact that we are contracting now i think 34% of it is contracted out to private enterprise, people like james snowden who don t or maybe are not beholden to the operation in the same way that a government employee would be. you cannot think that there will be more sort of information coming out as more young men who are sort of fairly ideological, presumely as he was, he went to fight in iraq. the more they re fed into the system and given the magnitude of the system, the more there
0 america is under attack by knowledg knowledge. tonight, we are learning new details about nsa leaker edward snowden, when he was 9 years old, his family moved from north carolina to crofton, maryland, and snowden then grew up in the shadow of the nsa, located within walking distance of crofton, which is a suburb of washington, d.c., next to the nsa, where pta meetings probably have members of the intelligence community bumping into each other on a regular basis. had he been a dropout of any other public high school in america, would he have ever been able to obtain a security clearance? that is something we don t yet know about edward snowden. but what we do know is that when he dropped out of high school, his parents marriage was coming apart. his mother, who is an i. t. clerk in baltimore, filed for divorce in 2001, the year snowden was scheduled to graduate from high school. his father is a retired coast guard official who has now remarried and lives in pennsylvania, according
0 trouble. i thought the probe would be as anything as it would tet, i was so wrong. it is time for the last word . i want you to hug your doors and lock your loved ones, snowden s whereabouts unknown. the justice department has confirmed. there is already an investigation under way. glenn greenwald says there will be more stories. it is entirely appropriate to debate these matters. there is no way to prevent abuse. this is a matter appropriate for public debate. the president said we should have a debate. debate. debate. debate. apparently, this is worthy of debate. this is the debate we have been wanting to have. let us have the debate. we re having it. how many folks go through life dumb? i don t have a problem with that. is this guy a criminal or whistle-blower? whistle-blower. the debate is only growing more heated. he is a traitor. the law was broken by one person, that is mr. snowden. these programs are within the law. i wants to