and we ll have more on jeb bush later on. and edward is snowden is trending. but an anonymous group put up an illegal bust of him in a park. and it was capture by animal new york. and groups are calling this act iconic revolution in action. but moments ago we found out the bust was covered up and since taken down by the parks department. and another person getting media attention, chance la case, the new hampshire teen arrested for allegedly posing as a police officer while buying ice cream on april fool s day. so he s a kid. look at this. you can see social media posts. he took playing cops to a whole new level, complete with real state patches and also carrying
talked about weather and using surveillance for nefarious reasons and he said mostly not. the real problem is that they are using these capabilities to make us vulnerable to them and then saying well i had a gun pointed to your head i m not going to pull the trigger. trust me. and this is something that you all wondered. he was asked to explain the implication of surveillance on racy, personal photos. the good news is there is no program named [ bleep ] program. the bad news is they are still collecting everybody s information. including your [ bleep ] pics. you can fill that in. and the jaw drop there. and they refer to junk in the pictures so it doesn t get as rated r as that. so? so snowden has been holed up in russia for more than a year
the data for a public discussion, because it s an inapparently secret program. the elseberg argument doesn t make sense, because his papers released did not reveal current operations, it s a different type of crime. so snowden is facing harsher music because he did a harsher thing. and if he doesn t want to cop to that, that s, that s his problem. i m not sure, steve that the documents that snowden released didn t show concrete abuses by the nsa. one of them was an inspector general report that showed that the nsa had abused its own authority 3,000 times in one year and the senate intelligence community hadn t seen that report before it was published. there s a part of this interview that jumped out at me. on the surface it seemed scary and brian williams took out the cell phone. and edward snowden described hey, here s all the ways they can monitor you and profile you just with this. if you search for a new york rangers hockey score in this cell phone, they can build a whole profi
there s doubt he cannot get a fair trial. whistleblowers were excluded from all this is important. national security basically has a carve-out that makes whistleblowing almost impossible. that s true. in 1978 when they passed the federal whistleblowing law, they carved out national security. it was the biggest mistake because as other institutions and agencies moved forward and developed mechanisms for people to expose wrong doing, national security remained in the old world. so snowden has no rights under those laws. the laws he s been charged with, this is what he s been charged with but if you read the espionage act, they could clearly charge him with other parts of it at any time, which carries the death penalty. using the espionage act against whistleblowers is in our view just so over the top and such a reflection of hostility that it
basically said he was trying to do to putin what senator widen had done to america s intelligence chief james clapper before all of the snowden documents came out. clapper was asked during a congressional hearing does the united states gather data on millions americans and clapper said no it the snowden documents proved that was not true. so snowden s question ran parallel to widen s. but putin s answer wasn t anything like clapper s. i ask you your reaction to this snowden question. how about the u.s. intelligence communities reaction? what do you know about that? i actually know a bit about it firsthand because i ve been getting e-mails from people would read the story we had in the post. they re very angry with snowden. they believe this was a case where he was he was a stooge or a patsy for putin and maybe even asked a question that the russian leader scripted himself. i think that s unlikely, but he did certainly sort of play into