NSA

It’s an EmMajority Report Thursday! She talks to Kerry Howley, feature writer at New York Magazine, to discuss her recent book Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through The Deep State. Then, she is joined by Edwin Ackerman, assistant professor of sociology at Syracuse University, to discuss his recent piece on Mexican politics in the New Left Review […]
Pat Robertson muses that British people might want to die in terrorist attacks, because of political correctness. Russian hackers appear to have triad to hack computers used for voting. Why voting integrity is a structural problem in America. The FBI arrests an NSA leaker. The Trump Administration admits that the Russia investigation is derailing their […]
Journalist Marcy Wheeler, explains why the Intelligence community has become worried about Trump and national security. Mike Flynn’s Russia calls and why he lied. Was Flynn compromised by Russia and how that information became public. Did Trump direct Flynn. How Flynn’s call was intercepted. Obama and the National Security State. Does the scandal end with […]
How Republicans will dismantle healthcare. Journalist Branko Marcetic, explains the creation of a mass National Security State under the Obama Administration. Killing American citizens without due process. Eric Holder’s letter to Rand Paul and can an American Citizen be killed on American soil? The wars Trump inherits across the globe. Obama’s failed record on secrecy […]
National Security journalist William Arkin author of Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare, explains the growth of the global intelligence network supporting modern warfare and spying. The global hunt for information. The shifting calculus of unmanned war. How drone warfare has made border meaningless. The “Deep State” and the Obama Administration. The Homeland Security […]
Pando Senior Editor Mark  Ames, explains how Symour Hersh’s attempts at Corporate muckraking in the 1970s reveal the dangers of going after the corporate state. Dangers of corporate muckraking journalism and what’s wrong with the NSA debate. On The Fun Half: The Police assault on black teenagers in Mckinney Texas and the horrifying viral that revealed […]
Journalist Charlie Pierce explains the bizarre new law enforcement shooting of a terrorism suspect in Boston. How does someone become monitored? Can Congress restore civil liberties? Hillary’s Democratic challengers and the Republican clown car. On The Fun Half: Some people want Michael Bloomberg to run for President and we found a handful of the handfuls […]
National security blogger and analyst, Marcy Wheeler, explains what’s good about the USA Freedom Act and what’s wrong with it. Why the USA Freedom ACT, could end up creating new civil liberties problems for Americans. The Second Circuit Court decision that limits the NSA’s domestic spying. The relationship between the FISA Court and the Justice […]
Glenn Greenwald author of No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State, explains why so much information the NSA collects is not collected from NSA targets, why the NSA’s information gathering is ripe for abuse, the NSA’s spying on specific Muslim civil society leaders, why a persons political views can lead to […]
Slate political reporter Dave Weigel explains what happened in the Georgia Republican Senate primary, what is the actual distinction between the Tea Party and the Republican establishment, the Chamber of Commerce and the Tea Party, how the Tea Party is winning the long term game, why Common Core is a potential big issue, did Matt […]