75% of all internet traffic in the u.s. the report in the wall street journal was clear about the fact what we re talking about is a narrowly focused program aimed specifically at foreign intelligence. reporter: but the journal found in some cases nsa quote, retains written content of e-mails sent between citizens within the u.s., a finding that fuels fear that they re not being forthright. the constitution doesn t allow a single warrant to get a billion phone records. reporter: the administration has petitioned the supreme court to allow police to search cell phone records without a warrant. today s smart phones are an encyclopedia of private information and a tracking device. the phone company at any given time knows where you are as a result of a technical function of the network. reporter: that capability demonstrated by two computer scientists in 2011. they discovered the apple iphone and ipad were recording user
to u.s. citizens. after notifying congress, senior intelligence officials say the nsa tried to salvage data, but in the end took a conservative approach, purged three years of collection, upwards of 75 million communications. corrective action breaks down. new technology including filters to exclude data belonging to u.s. citizens, data that can be filtered subject to new restrictions, and nsa can only hold data for two years, no longer five. seer yor intelligence officials answer criticism that nsa oversight and by its own internal checks is inadequate. bret? thank you. something else new tonight, a jaw dropping number of how much of your communications can be intercepted. here is correspondent doug mcelway. reporter: the administration was forced yet again to defend nsa surveillance after today s the wall street journal report that found the agency monitors
reporter: on syria, the u.n. security council was in emergency meeting several hours today, basically came up with no action. agreed on the need for clarity about the chemical weapons attack, in the end didn t agree on a specific u.n. probe to get to the bottom of it. ed henry on the north lawn. thank you. one of the stories that sometimes gets buried is the persecution of coptic christians in egypt. it has been going on for awhile now. chief washington correspondent james rosen tells us tonight it is far worse as egypt drifts towards civil war, but it is not just coptic christians and it is not just egypt. christians across the middle east have been targeted in recent months with incidents, including church burnings and killings across the entire region. a warning, some images in this report may be disturbing. reporter: dating become almost two millennia, coptic christians are the oldest christian community in the
two phones didn t come through you have to get out of here. the united states? that s it for us on the that s the only way you five. thanks for watching. see you tomorrow. know see what i mean? special report is up next. they could be using the lone it is great. wolf terrorist in boston to communicate back and forth. we don t know. the nsa has lots of different numbers so they can try to find out what is going on. if we can believe peter welcome to red eye. it is like dude where s my car king peter king has top secret if by car you mean my photo clearance that is briefed by the calia. album with lo u-dabbs. cia. he said it was chatter within the peninsula. i cried h nighs arms, don t it was not chatter. you know. how did you know? now to andy levy for a pre that s what he said. how do you know he is game report. andy, what is coming up on wrong? tonight s show? he said it. i will give him that. thanks, greg. it goes to the same line. our top story, a
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