Stubborn fear and sweep spyware chaos, intelligence officials trying to an unusual conference last Tuesday, the government of steadily collect telephone records and the use of the Internet is necessary to convince members of the house of representatives to protect the American people - and not to trample on their privacy rights.
But the country's main civil liberties organizations don't buy it, so far, the most important case submitted a lot of phone records collection program. The American civil liberties union and the New York chapter sued the federal government on Tuesday in New York, asking the court to call for an end to the Obama administration procedures and clear record collection.
The ACLU said stand in the customer Verizon phone companies, the government has ordered to turn daily records of all customer contact and this is the last week confirmed.
The federal bureau of investigation to the whole house and intelligence officials on Tuesday march is the plan of the national security agency, collect the American telephone and Internet records billions of latest attempt to soothe angry. Since they said last week that the stimulus has been the Obama administration's distrust from all over the world.
Several key members of congress, including house speaker John boehner, R, Ohio, Tuesday to readjust the sensation elusive former intelligence contractors, 29, who is the monitoring plan, the two newspapers claimed responsibility. Boehner to join other call Edward snowden "traitors".
To defend the national security agency system, however, a prominent republican senator who support them emphasizes the procedure how easy it is to confuse the complex - even if lawmakers closely according to the problem.
The senate armed services and members of the judiciary committee, senator Lindsey Graham (Lindsey Graham), they suggest that initially explained to reporters, describes how to NSA millions of call from the United States use pattern analysis, even if those Numbers no known connection to terrorism's director of national intelligence James clapper strongly believes that have strict limits in the program, in order to prevent the invasion of americans' privacy and senior officials quickly denied that Graham's description.
Graham later said that he is wrong, which is correct: call records, if there is a known link terrorism, only visit.
House members have more problems, in many cases, more concern on Tuesday after U.S. intelligence agencies to monitor levels, the federal bureau of investigation, the ministry of justice and other intelligence officials told them two NSA program are introduced.
"Really, this is a debate over public security, how far is it, we went over to public safety and protect us from terrorist attacks to how far we go, the other side of the said:" the house of representatives in the Netherlands CA Ruppersberger, top democrat on the house intelligence committee, Maryland. "Congress need to debate this issue.
He said his panel and judiciary committee will study what has happened, and see if there are Suggestions for the future.
D - California rep. brad Sherman, many members, said he was unaware of the scope of data collection.
Sherman said: "I don't know 1 billion records of federal administrative department under the control of, a day".
, D - Tennessee rep. Steve Cohen said, there are a lot of heated discussions, "congress did not feel like they were told."
Cohen admits, many lawmakers failed to turn up the classification of the past where they can learn more. "I think the American congress has really found himself on the steering wheel fell asleep a little," he said.
Harsh criticism from the senate monitor bangzi is put forward in the reticle, accusing him of not realistic in March, when he asked if the NSA in the senate hearings to collect any data for millions of americans. Clapper said, this is not the case. Officials generally do not discuss confidential information in public, reserve the closed session of congress, where they will not be disclosed to your opponent's top-secret plan discussion.
Senator RON wyden, D - iron ore, said he had been discontent with the NSA answer his questions, and given its previous day's advance notice of the hearing is ready to answer. Can't fully believe bangzi publicly denied program, said wyden, he privately asked bangzi later if he wants to stick with a firm "no" question.
On Tuesday, reveal his efforts to get bangzi wyden, tell him hearing to discuss relevant procedures and requirements. He has introduced legislation to force the government to decrypt the palace secret recipe, who authorized the opinions of the supervision of senators in a group.
Wyden says: "under the leadership of the American people have a right to expect from the intelligence, and their representatives directly answer questions,".
Wyden statement bangzi spokesman had no comment. But NBC news in an interview earlier this week, clapper said, he responded: "I think what is the most real or at least the most dishonest ways, said 'no',", because the project is listed as.
The senate intelligence committee will hear again on Thursday.
U.S. congressional leaders and intelligence committee members have often heard about spyware, officials say, Capitol hill has at least two prolonged legal approval. Stunned, but its large scope of the disclosure of some members of congress, shy strict privacy and civil liberties advocates, has long been accused the government too intrusive foreign Allies shock from countries in the name of national security.
In the new poll, a majority of americans support certain aspects of spyware heels, lawmakers defend billions of mobile phones and Internet records, they said, can help make America more secure in the coming years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, daily monitoring. By the "Washington post" and "the pew research center at the weekend to an opinion poll found that americans generally preferred the government need to protect the privacy of personal information need to investigate the terrorist threat.
But CBS news, June 9-10, according to a survey of most government approval to collect foreigners suspected of terrorist activities, most do not approve of federal agencies to collect the average American's phone records and Internet activity of telephone records of americans. 30% of respondents agree that the government's assessment that show hurt America's ability to the enlightenment, in order to prevent future terrorist attacks, while 57% of respondents said they would not affect.
Instead, anger focused on snowdon, cia employees opened the NSA contractors in an online interview, he exposed the plan, trying to protect the rights of the U.S. government to spy on privacy.
Boehner said: "he is a traitor", "ABC"
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