without any of the good news that night counteract it. bill: those lines cross towards the end of may and they crossed the first week of june when all of this started to hit the fan. we are just getting rolling. this is about as rare as they come. the head of the nsa talking about his agency s surveillance program and how he believes it s kept americans safe. we ll talk to one of the lawmakers taking part and ask them what he wants to hear from general alexander. you will see that coming up live. martha: did attorney general eric holder lie to congress? it s a big issue. new details on what eric holder is saying now and the latest on the possibility of furnlg are you charges. the comairpman of the judiciary committee joins us on that now infamous testimony. why was it necessary to subpoena the telephone records. did you seek the ap s assistance in the first place and if not
repeatedly come up, well, how do you then protect civil liberties and privacy? where s the oversight? what are you doing on that? we have the deputy director of the national security agency who will now talk about that and give you some specifics about what we do and how we do it with these programs. thank you, general alexander. chairman, ranking member, members of the committee, i m pleased to be able to briefly describe the two programs as used by the national security agency with a specific focus on the internal controls and the oversight provided. first, to remind these two complementary but distinct programs are focused on foreign intelligence. that s nsa s charge. the first program executed under section 215 of the patriot act authorizes the collection of telephone metadata only. as you ve heard before, the metadata is only the telephone numbers and contact, the time and date of the call and the duration of that call. this authority does not, therefore, allow the government to
thank you for continuing to serve to protect the united states. again, you have that great burden of knowing lots of classified information you cannot talk publicly about. i want you to know thank you on behalf of america for your service to your country. the committee has been extensively briefed on these efforts over a regular basis as part of our overgoing oversight respondent over the 16 elements of the intelligence commitment. and the national intelligence program. in order to fully understand intelligence collection programs, most of these briefings and hearings have taken place in classified settings. nonetheless, the collection efforts under the business records provision in section 702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act are legal, court-approved and subject to an extensive oversight regime. look forward to hearing from all of the witnesses about the extensive protections and oversight in place for these programs. general alexander, we look forward to hearing what you
on developing these things in an effort to keep america safe, so it s a very tough line that this general s going to have to walk today to try to convince the american people who are already skeptical because of the irs scandal and benghazi and the rifling reporters e-mails about the u.s. government and trying to get them to understand that this program protects their civil liberties, and it s necessary to protect us against the terrorism, the terrorist threat. bill: and, you know, peter, rightfully so there are concerns. sure. bill: they don t know what the heck people are doing with information or e-mails or telephone numbers. but you just heard martha and catherine talk about najibullah zazi, he s now in jail for the rest of his life. he admitted to the plans that he had to blow up subway system here in new york city. yep. bill: now, we reported earlier that general alexander will talk about maybe ten plots. yesterday we were told it might be as many as 21 plots that had been d
obtain from providers under court order, especially under the business records provision, is used. and deputy attorney general cole, we look forward to hearing martha: that s mike rogers, chairman of the intense committee there in the introduction phase here of keith alexander of the nsa. we re going to get to his testimony. we want to sneak in a quick break first, and we ll be right back with more. at the intersection of lik classified intelligence programs and it s four times the detail of hd. colors become richer. details become clearer. which for a filmmaker, changes everything. because now there are no more barriers between the world that i see and the ones i can show you. the sony 4k ultra hd tv.