president obama laid out his plan to curb the national security agency s once secret surveillance programs on friday, setting limits on the collection of foreign intelligence, appointing a public advocate for the fisa cord and making major changes to the controversial collection of bulk telephone records. the speech comes after a months-long review of the agency s sbeintelligence s gathering. joining the panel this week, dan hen henigor, joe ranger and matt kaminsky. he s gone very far unilaterally disarming the u.s. on surveillance. basically, since the edward snowden revelations six months ago, he tried to straddle both lines saying i want to satisfy the privacy concerns but keep our national security. i think the steps he s taken, especially on neutering this telephone collection program of meta data which is not listening on phone calls, but if you call joe, your number, his number, how long the call lasted. right. he is extending constitutional protections to for
i mean the french intelligence, former french head of intelligence came out last week and said, what are you talking about? everybody s been doing this? helmet schmidt said when he was chansz lore of germany he assumed that he was being spied on. this has been going on since the cold war. so basically, yes, maybe we should provide some cosmetic cover in order to help, for example, mrs. merkel regain some trust in the relationship with the u.s. beyond that, i don t think we should do anything. dianne feinstein being the chairman of the senate intelligence committee. and she s moving some legislation to put some she says a review of all of these things. there s also a report this week, joe, that the nsa was spying, breaking into google and yahoo! networks overseas. not domestically, but overseas. and the companies themselves this week are up in arms about that. they are. but you have to remember, these are these were caps overseas, purely foreign to foreign
americans, you deserve better. i apologize. welcome to the journal editorial report i m paul gigot. an apology from health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius who acknowledged before congress this week that the rollout of president obama s affordable care actdebacle. but despite the website woes and growing outrage over millions of dropped policies, president obama says it s full steam ahead. yes, this is hard. the health care system is a big system. and it s complicated. and if it was hard doing it just in one state, it s harder to do in all 50 states. we are just going to keep on working at it. we re going to grind it out. joining the panel this week, wall street journal assistant editorial page editor frams freeman. editorial board member joe rago and senior economics writer.
fresh leaks pit the spy agency against the obama administration over who knew what about the surveillance of world leaders, and as members of congress demand an investigation and possible curtailment of the collection of foreign intelligence. we re back with joe rago, wall street journal editorial board members, mary anastasia o grady and matt kamensky also joins the panel. so, mary, are you buying the claim that the white house has offered that the president didn t know that the nsa was listening in on world leaders? you know, paul, if the president didn t know, the u.s. is even in worse shape than we thought all along. i mean, first of all, the nsa, everything they do is supervised. this wasn t some rogue operation. this is what they do. and you know, a lot of the data we get from europe is collected in this way. well, by and also collected with the help of the europeans, yeah. so the idea that he didn t know
democrats, as well, saying you know, we can t live with this. we re going to have to put this off until after the midterm elections which would mean a one-year delay. joe, is there an opportunity here for republicans to cut in here and maybe offer an alternative that s better? right. you would think so. look, there s the flaws and problems with this program are real, but this program is also creating an opportunity for them to offer a genuine reform alternative. saying, look, you have these choices before. here s what we want to do, x, y, z to give you those choices back. expanded choice, expanded doctor choices and all of that. thank you. when we come back, the nsa controversy grows. as a new round of leaks that the spy agency against the white house over who knew what about our overseas intelligence operati operations. [ coughs, sneezes ] i have a big meeting when we land, but i am so stuffed up, i can t rest. [ male announcer ] nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don t unstuff you