reading on the sandy shores. what qualifies as a beach read when you are the commander-in-chief? obama did pick up a spy novel at walk s politics and pros book store thanksgiving weekend, plus a few more high brow literary choices and a book about the science of athletic performance. it s just as possible, maybe more likely the president will actually be pouring through the new 300-page independent review of the national security agency s under surveillance practices by a white house task force that landened on his desk this week. the report which was prepared by legal and intelligence experts makes 46 recommendations on how to reign in the nsa s expansive data collection practices. a response in a way to all of the intelligence secrets revealed this year by former nsa contractor edward snowden t. panel s biggest recommendation is they should put a stop to the practice of voluming up the phone records and holling that information indefinitely. that it should take a court order for th
outcomes, infant mortality, the things we do so poorly on, have been because no one is accountable for certain segments of population health, getting them in for preventative care and following up. the extension of the insurance we re seeing is really a step in right direction. thank you both. thank you. up next, the white house is set to release an outside report on its surveillance practices. could it change nsa protocol? plus, a check on budget vote and who s got the golden lottery ticket. it s a busy wednesday and we ve got you covered here on the cycle. by the end of december, we ll be delivering through 12 blizzards blowing 6 snowballs flying 5 packages addressed by toddlers that s a q 4 lightning bolts 3 creepy gnomes 2 angry geese and a giant blow-up snowman
disclose or reveal anything that would harm our interests. in fact, he s already revealed information he has to journalists. the question is whether he will ever some day be able to testify in these countries about technology and surveillance practices. i hope that his legal situation allows him to do that some day. obviously the government would disagree with your take there that he hasn t done anything to harm our interests but that s a debate between you and someone else. lastly, before you go, i know that you re in some contact with edward snowden. how is he doing? his morale is very high this week. it meant a lot to him to have his beliefs vindicated by a federal court. he certainly didn t know that would be the outcome but he had watched over the last several years as groups like the aclu tried to challenge nsa surveillance practices in federal courts only to be turned away because we didn t have evidence. he provided that evidence and when this program was exposed to the lig
brazil has not said that they are willing to give him asylum. they said we haven t gotten any formal requests. where do you hope snowden will find a safe haven? well, look, we have said all along the safest haven for snowden should be his own country, the united states. i would like to see him come back here. i would like to see him treated as a whistleblower, not as a criminal, to assist the united states in reforming their surveillance practices, to testify before congress. it doesn t look like that s going to happen any time soon. because that s not in the cards right now, i m sure if the people of brazil were to offer snowden asylum, he would surely consider it. i would say the same about other countries in europe and elsewhere, and maybe russia will offer him permanent asylum. in the meantime, the important thing is that he s able to participate in this public debate, a debate that has taken an important turn yesterday when a federal court in washington agreed with snowden that
the government s position is challenged by an adversary. the nsa is pushing back hard on any reform. last night granted unusual access to 60 minutes . and nsa officials defended widening surveillance powers. my concern on that, especially what s going on in the middle east, what you see going on in syria, what we see going on, egypt, libya, iraq, is much more unstable. the probability that a terrorist attack will occur is going up. and this is precisely the time that we should not step back from the tools that we have given our analysts to detect these types of attacks. joining us now to unpack the new ruling and nsa s defense of its widening surveillance practices, a reporter who broke this story, glen greenwald. glen, your reaction to a strong ruling here from a federal court today, finding that the nsa s data program is likely unconstitutional. it s an extraordinary ruling,