shepard: there s chris wallace. chairman rogers of the committee, asking the deputy do you have the ability to listen to our phone calls and read our e-mails, and he said, no, we do not have the authority. i don t understand how it is they keep getting to not answer questions and why they re in terms of the program, may be other programs but in terms of the phone program, they re only picking up phone records. they d have to go bask and get shepard: that wasn t the question. from in the foreign intelligence surveillance court to listen to the content. all they re getting is this number called that number and they spoke for this many minutes. the kind of thing you get on your bill. shepard: but that s my bill from my phone company, and sometimes like the web sites i
molly is in washington. what else did the president say? reporter: today the president cited comby s extraordinary experience and fierce nbc has fierce independence, and part of of that nbc may be comby s efforts when he was then deputy attorney general to push back against the warrantsless wire tapping program and terrorist interrogation techniques. the president did not mention either of those instances specifically today, but here is what he said. key moment when it s mattered most, he joined bob in standing up for what he believed was right. he was prepared to give up a job he loved rather than be part of something he felt was fundamentally wrong. reporter: now the obama administration has its own surveillance seasons. this is a ten-year job for comey if he gets senate confirmation. shepard: most of the biggest
pentagon. we re learning more about some new reports from some new reports in guardian and the washington post. they district the assurances that the nsa goes to great lengths to only target foreigners and guard americans privacy. the new leaks leave no doubt should not have been any doubt before that the nsa is allowed to pick up americans international communications. for the past few weeks government officials have been trying to defend the program by saying they re not listening to american phone calls and we now know for sure that is not true. the mandate given the nsa is very broad. it can keep e-mails and telephone calls of citizens and residents of they contain-quote, significant intelligence. what does that believe? quote, a person whose location is not known or is outside of the united states will be presumed to be a nonunited
program even though so much of the information is blacked out. i think the fact they re heavily the fbi documents are heavily redacted is incredibly significant and shows this culture of secrecy, in the d. the documents reveal the fbi is using a drone call the puma ae. yousee it there. and while refer fox s specific questions to the fbi, the california manufacturer says it s highly portable, compact, and carries a color and a thermal video camera to send live surveillance data to its operator with about a two-hour flight time, adding it is suited to search and rescue and specific law enforcement incidents. also this week the fbi confirming the use of a drone during the february hostage standoff in alabama when the retired trucker took the boy. the trucker ended up dead and the boy safe. the fbi uses that as an example