Eric Lichtblau, the reporter who helped break the story about the government's domestic surveillance program, talks with host Margot Adler about the NSA, electronic spying and President Bush's executive order.
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Eric Lichtblau
is the Justice Department correspondent for the New York Times in its Washington bureau. Prior to working at the Times, he was a reporter at the Los Angeles Times for 15 years. He is currently writing a book about the Justice Department during the George W. Bush Administration.
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Reporter Reese Erlich reports on what some critics are saying about the NSA program — that it is just one part of a much wider pattern of illegal, domestic spying.
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Former White House Counsel Brad Berenson debates law professor Geoffrey Stone over governmental spying and presidential authority.
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Bradford A. Berenson
is a partner in the law firm of Sidley and Austin. From 2001-2003, he served as Associate Counsel to the President of the United States. In the White House, he worked on legal, legislative and policy issues associated with the Bush Administration's relations with Congress, domestic policy initiatives, and the war on terrorism.
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During
the debate, Maria LaHood, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, one of the organizations that filed a lawsuit challenging the NSA program, talks about her suspicion that she has been a target of spying.
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Host Margot Adler talks with author Patrick Radden Keefe about the past and future of government spying technology.
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