now to a request to stop the nsa s electronic eavesdropping. the justices reject appear appeal from the electronic privacy information center which urged the high court to throw out a secret court s approval of the practice. this is the first challenge to the nsa s surveillance programs to reach supreme court but other are working their way through lower courts. president obama will meet with senate leaders from both parties today. he is trying to convince them not to ratchet up sanctions against iran. nuclear talks with the iranians resume tomorrow in geneva and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have made it clear they are skeptical at best about where those talks are heading. the president argues if the u.s. is serious about diplomacy then adding sanctions to the ones already working against iran would be counterproductive. big developments unfolding in the brutal rollout of healthy.gov. obama care s top technology manager henry chow will testify at one of the hearings.
what is clear from this information released by the dni is that each of these programs is authorized by law. overseen by congress and the courts and subject to ongoing and rigorous oversight. i m glad the nsa is trying to figure out what terrorists are up to overseas and outside the country. what you ve got is two programs that were originally authorized by congress, have been repeatedly authorized by congress, bipartisan majorities have approved them, congress is continually briefed on how these are conducted. there are a whole range of safeguards involved. and federal judges are overseeing the entire program throughout. but we just learned that s actually not quite true. a new bomb shell new york times story demolishes this court offense of the nsa s expanded spying program. turns out a secret court ruled
rising serious questions about the scope. secret court documents unclassified showing the nsa was rebuked in 2011 for collecting thousands of e-mails that had no ties to suspected terrorism calling into question why the nsa would ever be gathering that info. kathryn harris with answers. hi. reporter: these newly classified documents shown two years ago the fisa court determined the nsa collection program violated existing statutes and constitutional protections. in one opinion, judge john d. bates wrote for the first time the government advised the court the volume and information the nsa is collecting is fundamentally different from what the court had been to believe. administration officials describe it aztec call and the bundled communications focuses on foreign e-mail. a bundle communication can be as
heard on the subject yet, where he said basically a secret interpretation of a law, interpreting, a secret provision by a secret court sets up sort of a secret surveillance system, and said this is not consistent with democracy, and this is big brother, and we need to stop it. the fact that michele bachmann is on the other side of this is disconcerting, but she s leaving the house. many house members voted with amosh. and senator widen also suggested in a veiled way that there is more in the nsa machinery than people realize and snowden has revealed, and he is of course bound by his secrecy oath to not reveal it. interesting thing in an nbc poll about snowden, having gone to the opinion poll about the issue, which is certainly something snowden cares about more than his own individual polling because the snowden thinking seems to be dominating in the opinion poll on the issue. but snowden s personal
where many republicans, as you just said, and many democrats, frankly are in looking at the case of, you know, yesterday, ron widen at the center for american progress gave one of the most amazing speeches i have heard on the subject yet, where he said basically a secret interpretation of a law, interpreting, a secret provision by a secret court sets up sort of a secret surveillance system, and said this is not consistent with democracy, and this is big brother, and we need to stop it. the fact that michele bachmann is on the other side of this is disconcerting, but she s leaving the house. many house members voted with amosh. and senator widen also suggested in a veiled way that there is more in the nsa mach e machinery than people realize and snowden has revealed, and he is of course bound by his secrecy oath to not reveal it. interesting thing in an nbc poll about snowden, having gone to the opinion poll about the issue, which is certainly