responsibility to notify they were going to dem tlish building at 2136. apparently, that never happened. oh, lord. there will be issues with courtors. we will be discussing that at another time. don lemon, thank you for that reporting. interesting without question. sanction snooping. we just talked about it. the government is getting up in our business. a british newspaper reporting verizon is forced to hand over the phone records of millions of americans. that s you, your neighbors. every day americans. is this actually legal? how legal and where is the line? we will ask the director of the center for national security coming up in this hour. also, saving sarah, a judge cuts through the red tape and now sarah may just get the lungs that she needs to continue living. but is this at the expense of someone else? and michael jackson s daughter, 15-year-old seemingly living the life, so what pushed paris jackson to apparently try
it has been briefed to congress and the letters that we have distributed and this is, you will note on the dates, this is prior to the patriot act amendments coming before the body each of those. as you know, this is just meta-data. there is no content involved, in other words, no content of a communication. and again, experts will point out, this is all possible under the ford intelligence oversight act. nonetheless, there is a lot of concern of news getting out on this top secret document, this order. the fbi which made the request for this information is not commenting. verizon not commenting either. ashleigh. well, guess what, just as you are reporting, we got something in from verizon. so this news is breaking right now, dan. let me read this. i will do it as quickly as i can
it is legal when you look at the law. there is a process by which i pointed out this oversight that exists to make sure it stays within the law, but, you know, a lot of people having pointing out this did take place under the bush administration but what seems to be a little different this time is what we are talking about is gathering records on calls within the united states. in the past, what we were looking at are foreign phone calls, maybe having some link back to the ung. this is solely calls that are taking place within the united states, ashleigh. by the way, dan, i want to clarify that comment that randy milch made from verizon. it wasn t a statement to us. this was a statement to its own employees cnn was able obtainment you are right, they are not commenting publicly, they re talking to their ploy i don t see other than to say the law is the law. we gots to do what we have to do. dan lothian at the white house, thank you for that. a moment of joy for you, for
the government is watching you, watching who you call, watching who calls you back. according to british newspaper the guardian, the national security agency here in the u.s. obtained a secret court order forcing the company verizon to turn over the cell phone records of millions of us americans. a lot of people are pretty outraged over there. the director of the center on national security at fordham university law school is concerned about it. container greenberg joins frus washington. thanks for being with us. i get it. i get there is national security. i get there is a fisa court and i get the government has to go to that fisa court sometimes secretly to get a warrant, on what potential bad guys might be doing. doesn t it have to be pretty darn narrow and isn t this extraordinary in its scope and breadth? well, it couldn t get any broader in its scope and breadth from what we have learned in the past 24 hours.
according to british newspaper, the guardian, our national security agency obtained a secret court order forcing verdes, the company, verizon, to turn over the telephone records of millions of americans, millions, not just afy, not just a few, millions, the white house is having to react to this. our dan lothian jones us now from washington. i can only imagine, there is damage control. make no mistake, this is not the first time this has happened. this is huge to hear this many people, their data is being checked and it all happens in secret. what itself the white house saying? reporter: that s right. and this is the kind of story i think that gets the attention of a lot of people. everyone has a phone. they make calls. they re concerned within they hear a story like this, is the government listening to my conversation? i should point out the administration the o bomb ma administration is not confirming or denying the existence of this order. because this is something that