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cnn news 2013-11-01

The month of Oct is coming to close but the new week of cnn Student News just getting started. Hello everyone, I'm Carl Azuz.

On Friday we talked about a controversy surrounding the NSA, the US National Security Agency. A lot of this goes back to a man named Edward Snowden. He was a contractor who worked for the NSA. Earlier this year, he leaked information about secret NSA programs. Snowden fled to Russia to avoid US prosecution. The document's detail how the US intercepted and collected phone and email data of Americans. They've also accusations of spying on foreign leaders. White House leader said the surveillance activities are necessary to combat threats against the US and its allies. Lisa Monical is an adviser to President Obama on the issue of homeland security and counter terrorism. She says the president has ordered an review of government surveillance programs. Monical says: "We want to ensure we're collecting information because we need it and not just because we can." But meanwhile, some members of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans are speaking out against NSA programs. They are proposing a law to limit the amount of data that NSA can collect. This weekend, a protest outside the US Capital pushed for the same goal.

Organizers said this rally is significant because it's the largest one yet protesting the mass surveillance by the NSA and Edward Snowden, the whistle blower who opened up the entire controversy earlier this year, made a contribution it. He provided a statement that was read by a representative at the rally. Take a listen.

"We have not forgotten that the 4th amendment in our bill of rights prohibit government not only from searching our personal affects without a warrant but from seizing them in the first place and doing so in secret. Holding to this principle, we declared the mass surveillance has no place in this country. It is time for reform. Elections are coming and we are vouching you." 

Now, it's important to know that these protesters were engaging over the domestic piece of peace, data collection for the personal devices or private citizens here in the United States. Now, Hillary Clinton said in a remarks on Friday night that she understands the frustration of this kind of intrusion and things all to be a bigger conversation about why the United States practices this kind of techniques now. On a broader scale, the White House is also facing hits from other countries, especially our allies over surveillance of foreign leaders and they have tired to come tensions over that.