Democracy Now! April 23, 2012

April 23, 2012 from Democracy Now! via Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND

Two years since the worst offshore oil spill in US history, Democracy Now! looks at its impact on the Gulf of Mexico's residents and wildlife, even as no BP officials have faced criminal prosecution for the disaster. And in part two of a national broadcast exclusive on growing domestic surveillance in the United States of dissident journalists, activists, and whisteblower, former NSA officer William Binney describes how the FBI raided his home and held him at gunpoint. Plus today's headlines, and more.

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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

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

Surveillance state

The surveillance state is a government's surveillance of large numbers of citizens and visitors. Such widespread surveillance is most usually justified as being necessary to prevent crime or terrorism. The growth of state surveillance has led to concerns about the erosion of p... 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

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

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

Bluffdale, Utah

Bluffdale is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, USA. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 7,598. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bluffdale is also the site of what will be the largest data repository for information collected by t... 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

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

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

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