[Wolf Blitzer, Cnn Anchor:] And, to our viewers, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Happening now: The president of the United States, President Obama, is in Mexico. He's talking drug violence, immigration, a lot more with that country's president. They're getting ready to take questions from reporters. That's supposed to start any minute now. We will go there for live coverage. Our political contributor Bill Bennett, by the way, he is standing by live for his take. And no less than the governor of Texas himself get this hinting his state may want to secede from the United States. Can he really be serious? What is going on? And just a week ago, she was virtually unknown. Now, she's a star in her native Britain and a global Internet sensation. Susan Boyle talks to CNN about the performance that's touched millions of people around the world and dramatically changed her life. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM We'll get to the president shortly, as soon as he and the president of Mexico walk into that room. Stand by for the news conference. Meanwhile, here in Washington, the speaker of the House calls it disturbing. The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee is demanding the facts. They and other lawmakers are expressing deep concern right now over brand new revelations that the government's National Security Agency has once again been improperly spying on Americans. Our homeland security correspondent, Jeanne Meserve, is joining us with the latest Jeanne.
[Jeanne Meserve, Homeland Security Correspondent:] Wolf, it seems like deja vu the National Security Agency collecting information about the domestic communications of Americans. But is it something nefarious or just a mistake? Does it show current law works or that it doesn't?
[Meserve:] Intelligence officials say the National Security Agency collected information about Americans' communications that it should not have. The nation's top intelligence official, Dennis Blair, says the numbers of these mistakes are very small. One official says the agency was not reading domestic e-mail or eavesdropping on domestic telephone calls and that the collection was done inadvertently the result of a technical problem. That explanation does not satisfy privacy advocates.
[Marc Rotenberg, Electronic Privacy Information Center:] The agencies have very clear legal guidelines. And it's their responsibility to comply with the legal rules when they do surveillance within the United States. So they can't say, you know, oops.
[Meserve:] The law governing NSA eavesdropping was revamped last summer after politically explosive revelations of warrantless wiretapping of Americans. The current law requires regular audits. And the Justice Department says the present problem was discovered during routine oversight. Congress and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court were notified and corrective steps were taken. A former intelligence official said: "This is how it's supposed to work." But critics could hardly disagree more. They say the current system gives the NSA too much leeway and too little oversight. They say there must be better safeguards on Americans' information.
[Jim Bamford, Author, "body Of Secret":] Otherwise, you're going to have millions of Americans' communications or private phone calls or private e-mails sitting in enormous NSA databases, which isn't a very good solution.
[Meserve:] Current and former officials say NSA's authority to monitor certain targeted communications is absolutely critical to the protection of the United States. But revelations that the program has again operated outside its boundaries have disturbed some members of Congress. And they are promising to investigate Wolf.
[Blitzer:] Jeanne, thank you. There's a significant new development in a story that's making headlines and causing outrage around the world outrage over a new Afghan law that permits spousal rape. President Obama has spoken sharply about it. Protesters have marched in the streets of Kabul. And now the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, says he's demanding change. Listen to what Karzai told CNN's Fareed Zakaria in an exclusive interview.
[Fareed Zakaria, Host, "fareed Zakaria Gps:] So let me ask you. You signed a law recently that put into place a kind of Muslim personal law for the Shia of Afghanistan. This is a law that many regard as quite reactionary. It requires that a woman take permission from her husband before she leaves the house. It allows the husband to have sex forcibly with the woman with his wife, if she even if she says no. President Obama has called this law abhorrent. You said you didn't want Westerners interfering in this. But now you have Afghan women marching in opposition to this. Why did you sign this law?
[Pres. Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan:] Nobody knew that that the law also included these these details and neither the minister of justice nor even some people who worked on this law did not find this articles in the law when they were working on it. And once I came to know of this this law and the details of it, I asked the minister of justice to to come and inform me in details as to what it is and what should be done about it. Now we have instructed, in consultation with the clergy of the country, that the law be reversed and that any article that's not in in keeping with the Afghan constitution and with with Islamic Sharia must be removed from this from this law.
[Blitzer:] All right. You can see the full interview with the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, on "FAREED ZAKARIA GPS," Sunday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. Eastern and 500 p.m. Eastern only on CNN. Let's check in with Jack Cafferty right now. He's got The Cafferty File Jack.
[Cafferty:] Wolf, obese passengers might soon have to buy two tickets in order to fly on United Airlines. The company says quoting here "For the comfort and well-being of all of their customers, they have a new policy for passengers who, A, can't fit into a single seat, can't properly buckle the seat belt using an extender or cannot put the seat's armrest down when seated." If there are extra seats available, that passenger would be moved next to an empty seat, no charge. But if the flight is full, they either have to buy an upgrade to business or first class, where the seats are a little bigger, or change to a later flight and buy a second ticket. United says they decided to adopt the policy after getting more than 700 complaints last year from passengers who did not have a comfortable flight because the person next to them: "infringed on their seat." Some wonder how the airline can enforce these things fairly. The spokesman for the Obesity Action Coalition says the policy: "perpetuates the negative stigma that's already associated with obesity." And that airline seats could use a few extra inches of room on all sides. But United isn't the first airline to do this charge extra for overweight passengers obese passengers. In fact, they are on the same page now as the other five biggest U.S. air carriers. It's something that presumably could affect millions of people when you consider that about one third of Americans one third are obese. And that's double the number of us that are obese from 30 years ago. Here's the question: Should obese passengers have to pay for two seats when they fly? Go to CNN.comcaffertyfile and you can post a comment on my blog. This question went up on CNN.com a little while ago. We are getting tons of e-mail on this Wolf.
[Blitzer:] Tons?
[Cafferty:] Tons.
[Blitzer:] Obese tons.
[Cafferty:] Excuse me. Terrible.
[Blitzer:] You're trying to be...
[Cafferty:] I just...
[Blitzer:] You're trying to be...
[Cafferty:] I'm very sorry. I apologize.
[Blitzer:] Get to work.
[Cafferty:] It's awful.
[Blitzer:] Jack, thanks. All right, now we're getting tons of e-mail. Thanks, Jack. Coming coming up, we're standing by for the president of the United States and the president of Mexico. They're getting ready for a joint news conference in Mexico City. We're going there live to hear the questions and answers. Stand by. Also, coming from anyone else, it would seem like a fringe idea. But now the governor of Texas is openly discussing the possibility of his state seceding from the United States. Is he really serious? Why would he even say such a thing? Plus, she famously confessed she's never been kissed. Now, this unlikely star is feeling the love from around the world.
[Sally Boyle, Singer:] I was nervous.