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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US National Security Agency (NSA)

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

FBI

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is a governmental agency belonging to the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency. Also, it is the government agency responsible for investigating crim... 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

National Security Letter

A national security letter is a demand letter, which differs from a subpoena. It can be used by US government agencies, mainly the FBI, when investigating matters related to national security. It is issued to a particular entity or organization to turn over various records and... Explore this topic

USA PATRIOT Act

The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 is an Act of the U.S. Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001. The title of the act is a ten letter acronym that stands for Uniting Strengthening America Providing Appropriate Tools Required Intercept Obstru... 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

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

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

Bluffdale, Utah

Bluffdale is a city in Salt Lake and Utah counties in the U.S. state of Utah, located about 20 miles south of Salt Lake City. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 7,598. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The community is characteri... Explore this topic

United States

The United States of America, commonly called the United States and America, is a federal republic consisting of fifty states and a federal district. The 48 contiguous states and the federal district of Washington, D.C. are in central North America between Canada and Mexico. T... Explore this topic

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