(Reuters) WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday identified two of the more than 50 classified cases in which they say National Security Agency eavesdropping helped thwart terrorist plots including a planned attack on the New York Stock Exchange.Full story
Chris Frates, Jackie Kucinich, and Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., discuss the latest developments.
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's North African wing (AQIM) on Sunday confirmed the death of two of its senior commanders in Mali earlier this year, veteran jihadist Abdelhamid Abou Zeid and brigade commander Abdallah Al Chinguetti, Mauritania's ANI news agency said. Full story
Sen. Lindsey Graham talks about the various facets of the conflict in Syria and the implications it has for dynamics in the Middle East.
Ayman Mohyeldin, NBC News foreign correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about the complicated dynamics of the Syrian civil war and why any military involvement by the U.S. should be very carefully considered given the opportunity for costly disaster.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., talks about the Obama administration's decision to arm Syrian rebels with Kristen Welker, in for Andrea Mitchell.
As the Syrian regime gains ground in a civil war that has killed more than 70,000 people, the U.S. has renewed its focus on the option of arming the Syrian opposition. The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg and The Washington Post’s David Ignatius discusses.
Jeremy Bash, author of section 702 of the FISA amendment act, joins The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd to explain what section 702 of the FISA Act allows the government to do and explains how the court reviews and scrutinizes criteria used from the FISA act to authorize surveillance.
A photo of Al Qaeda's leader, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, is seen in this still image taken from a video released on September 12, 2011. REUTERS/SITE Monitoring Service via Reuters TV
Pashtun men read local newspapers reporting the arrest of senior al Qaeda leader Younis al- Mauritani at roadside tea shop in Quetta September 6, 2011. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed
Detainees suspected of being part of an armed cell with links to al Qaeda are shown to the media during a news conference at the Defence Ministry in Baghdad June 1, 2013. The four men are accused of planning to make chemical weapons like nerve and mustard gas, according to the ministry.
FILE - This Oct. 2008 file photo shows Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born Yemeni cleric and recruiter for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, in Yemen. Born in New Mexico, al-Awlaki has used his personal website to encourage Muslims around the world to kill U.S. troops in Iraq and has emerged as a pro
