Democracy Now! April 20, 2012

April 20, 2012 from Democracy Now! via Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND

In a special show, Democracy Now! examines growing domestic surveillance in the US, including an exclusive interview with National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney, who says the government intercepts and retains copies of almost all emails sent or received by people living in the US. And American filmmaker Laura Poitras and computer researcher Jacob Appelbaum discuss what it's like to be the target of widespread government surveillance, including being routinely detained and interrogated at US airports.

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National Security Agency

The National Security Agency is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S. government communications and informa... Explore this topic

Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras is an American documentary film director and producer. She resides in New York City. She is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow and one of the initial supporters of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Explore this topic

Jacob Appelbaum

Jacob Appelbaum is an independent computer security researcher and hacker. He was employed by the University of Washington, and is a core member of the Tor project. Appelbaum is known for representing Wikileaks at the 2010 Hope conference. He has subsequently been repeatedly t... Explore this topic

William Binney

William Binney is a former official at the US National Security Agency (NSA) who quit over the organization's domestic surveillance program. Explore this topic

Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is a United States daily progressive, nonprofit, independently syndicated program of news, analysis, and opinion, aired by more than 1000 radio, television, satellite and cable TV networks in North America. The award-winning one hour War and Peace Report is host... Explore this topic

Whistleblower

A whistleblower is a person who tells the public or someone in authority about alleged dishonest or illegal activities occurring in a government department or private company or organization. The alleged misconduct may be classified in many ways; for example, a violation of a ... Explore this topic

Surveillance

Surveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting. Surveillance is therefore an ambiguous practice, sometimes creating positive effects, at other times... Explore this topic

NSA warrantless surveillance controversy

The NSA warrantless surveillance controversy concerns surveillance of persons within the United States during the collection of foreign intelligence by the U.S. National Security Agency as part of the war on terror. Under this program, referred to by the Bush administration as... Explore this topic

NSA electronic surveillance program

An electronic surveillance program was implemented by the National Security Agency of the United States in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks. It was part of the President's Surveillance Program, which was in turn conducted under the overall umbrella of the War on Ter... Explore this topic

United States

The United States of America, commonly called the United States or America, is a federal republic consisting of fifty states and a federal district. The lower forty-eight contiguous states and the federal district of Washington, D.C. are in central North America between Canada... Explore this topic

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