aforemention and particularly describing the place to be searched and the person or things to be seized, unquote. you can t just seize everything and say you are doing so to try to route out terrorism. you have to have probable cause to violate the privacy of an american. look, you know me. you know i m a very tough guy on national security. i support the patriot act. i support drone warfare. i support guantanamo bay. but this is dangerous. the irs scandal proves the federal government can and has abused its power for political reasons. simply can t have american authority spying on the folks. storing their emails. it can t happen. this prism program should be shut down immediately. if it s not, a class action suit shoulden filed and the supreme court should hear it as quickly as it can. one more thing, all this government intrusion didn t stop those boston bombers, did it? those two terrorists were all over the net. and that s the memo.
aforemention and particularly describing the place to be searched and the person or things to be seized, unquote. you can t just seize everything and say you are doing so to try to route out terrorism. you have to have probable cause to violate the privacy of an american. look, you know me. you know i m a very tough guy on national security. i support the patriot act. i support drone warfare. i support guantanamo bay. but this is dangerous. the irs scandal proves the federal government can and has abused its power for political reasons. simply can t have american authority spying on the folks. storing their emails. it can t happen. this prism program should be shut down immediately. if it s not, a class action suit shoulden filed and the supreme court should hear it as quickly as it can. one more thing, all this government intrusion didn t stop those boston bombers, did it? those two terrorists were all over the net. and that s the memo.
the points you made in the talking point i agree with look, the constitution protects content of communication. it doesn t protect the fact of communication and that database is keeping simply a collect of telephone numbers for some period of time so the retrospectively if the government says we have a bad call made from a bad guy abroad into the united states, let s go check and see what kind of connections there are with that phone number. bill: i think most people would be convinced by that argument. right. now prism. bill: email thing, huh-uh. hold on a second. prism. the prism program we don t know all about it, but what we do know is following. bill: didn t you start it. you and president bush the younger? aren t you the architect of it. i wasn t read into it here is what we do know. first of all the request the from the nsa goes through fbi electronics surveillance unit whose responsibility is to ascertain that the request is regarding the communication of someone wh
i know most of you do not agree from the radio to the e-mail yesterday, and that s fine. here s the problem. if a 29-year-old can get away with it, expect a 33-year-old, a 39-year-old, everybody in the private sector as well as those in government say i want to be a hero, i want my 15 minutes of fame. i m not sure i can agree with this program again. and look for the bottom to fall out. when it comes to snowden in particular, it seems as though his personal life is being somewhat exposed as they try to find out who he is and where he s going. gretchen: the latest poll shows 56% of americans believe it would be okay to do these types of program. brian: but they said the wiretapping they re for but when it came to the prism program, 52% is against what the prism program brings steve: the government brian: just a little bit about his background. his girlfriend, a ballerina /pole dancer was looking at him as the man
in the impact segment tonight. president obama relevant understands the rah because of federal power on the spying issue could well harm him once he leaves office. i suspect that on a list of people who might be targeted, you know, so that somebody could read their emails or listen it their phone calls, i would probably be pretty high on that list so would juan williams and mary katharine ham. join us now from washington. mary katharine, start with you tonight. because i always start with juan we want to mix it up a little bit here. karl rove believes that there isn t an abuse on this prism program. the whistle blower clearly says there. right. it is strange to me that