Former Head of NSA and CIA, No Second-Guessing
Recently, Trump backed down on his original comment that he would order U.S. military personnel to break the law by torturing or killing terrorist's family members.And part of why he backed down was...
View ArticleCan Snowden Come Home?
Edward Snowden told Brian that the American government is refusing him a fair trial.Here to explain Snowden's claim: Steve Vladeck, a professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: Iranian Nobel Prize-Winner Shirin Ebadi, Paying for...
A few of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Iranian Nobel Prize-Winner Shirin Ebadi (First) | Paying for Academic Journals (Starts at 15:57) | A Former CIA/NSA Head (Starts at...
View ArticleTed Cruz vs. Bill Bratton on the Cryptic NYPD Demographics Unit
First, let's catch you up to speed.In the immediate aftermath of the Brussels attacks on March 22, 2016, Ted Cruz issued a statement:"We will do what we can to help them fight this scourge, and...
View ArticleNew Jersey Transit Eavesdrops on Your Commute
Your next conversation on a New Jersey Transit train might be recorded.New surveillance measures include adding video and audio recording devices to some light rail trains, intended to deter and track...
View ArticleSurveillance
In June of 1947, the debut of a new radio show — using a hidden microphone — blurred the line between surveillance and entertainment. As Sara Fishko tells us in this archival edition of Fishko Files,...
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Eye in the Sky
There are two sides to every surveillance story. On one side, security; on the other, privacy.Ross McNutt is an innovator in the field. During the Iraq War in 2004, McNutt and his team developed...
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House committee seeks new details on surveillance targeting foreigners
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on “Worldwide threats to America and our allies” in Capitol Hill, Washington Feb. 9, 2016....
View ArticleSurveillance, Privacy, and Creditors
With the help of technology, creditors are going to unprecedented (and sometimes illegal) lengths to pursue debtors.
View ArticleExposing the True Cost of Living in a Security State
Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law, examined how the War on Terror enabled a decade-long assault on Constitutional rights - from the...
View ArticleThe Case Against the 'Smart City'
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Today we're exploring the different ways that "smart cities" will transform 21st century life. Adam Greenfield is against a lot of the ideology...
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Is My Phone Listening in On Me?
Do we need to be worried about our phones tracking our every move? Because it sure seems like they are. Walter Kirn wants you to know that you're NOT going crazy and maybe you should be a little...
View ArticleThe One Thing You Can Actually Do to Fight Surveillance
Reading this right now? Congratulations. You're winning.Yes, all of the usual corporate and government entities know you're here. Google remembers everything you've ever searched, BuzzFeed knows how...
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How one exhibit is rethinking privacy in a world that’s always watching
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: A photography museum is reopening in a sleek new home in New York City, with an exhibition to make you think twice about all the cameras that surround...
View ArticleNYPD Ignores Some Rules on Political Spying
The New York City Police Department has guidelines to ensure its investigations of political activity don't violate constitutional rights. But a new report by the NYPD Inspector General says the...
View ArticleUpdate: Eye In the Sky
An update on Ross McNutt and his superpower — he can zoom in on everyday life, then rewind and fast-forward to solve crimes in a shutter-flash. But should he?In 2004, when casualties in Iraq were...
View ArticleYou Can Run, But You Can't Hide
Calls to pardon Edward Snowden, the former CIA contractor who blew the whistle on the NSA’s secret internet and phone surveillance programs, have increased with the recent release of the “Snowden”...
View ArticleRepublicans for the Environment, Fighting for Women, The Next U.N. Secretary...
Coming up on today's show:Hurricane Matthew's movement towards the Southeast could be the first real test of a potential sea level rise on the existing infrastructure. Richard Luettich, a professor of...
View ArticleYahoo Scanned Customer Emails for the U.S. Government
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.A report by Reuters says that Yahoo developed software to scan hundreds of millions of Yahoo email accounts at the request of the National...
View ArticleAnother NSA Intelligence Breach
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.A contractor with the NSA has been arrested for stealing and leaking classified secrets. Sound familiar? Though the name Edward Snowden may...
View ArticleWhy Judge Rejected Settlement in the Muslim Surveillance Case
Raphael Pope-Sussman, features editor at the Gothamist, discusses the decision by a judge to reject what he considered an insufficient settlement between the New York Police Department and a group of...
View ArticleExpanding The Government's Hacking Powers, Under The Radar
Changes to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure broaden the government's hacking ability by removing restrictions on search warrants. The amended Rule 41 allows judges to issue search...
View ArticleSurveillance, Privacy, and Creditors
With the help of technology, creditors are going to unprecedented (and sometimes illegal) lengths to pursue debtors.
View ArticleHurry Up!
None of us know what Donald Trump will do once he becomes President Trump. What we do know is what he has said he wants to do and what powers he will have, should he choose to act. That's why activists...
View ArticleA Wish List for Obama
This week, the President placed a ban on oil and gas drilling in large parts of the country's Arctic and Atlantic waters and he dismantled a dormant Bush-era Muslim registry program that civil rights...
View ArticleGlenn Greenwald: Democrats Are Losing Again Amid Putin Frenzy
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.An explosive but unverified dossier that suggests that Donald Turmp has deep ties to Russia and that the Kremlin has damaging information on...
View Article01/18/17: America in Perpetual War, Freeing Chelsea Manning, A First Lady's...
Coming up on today's show:How has President Obama changed the makeup of the armed forces? Rosa Brooks, a law professor at Georgetown University and author of "How Everything Became War and the Military...
View ArticleSupreme Court Hears Arguments on 9/11 Civil Rights Case
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.As we near Inauguration Day for President-elect Donald Trump, a civil rights lawsuit from the George W. Bush era is taking on new life.Today,...
View ArticleFuture Tense
President Trump may be the most vocal with his disdain, but he's hardly the first president to have a rocky relationship with the press. Plus, why the White House press corps is so frustrating for...
View ArticleObama's Last-Minute Surveillance Changes
Last week, the Obama administration issued rule changes to Executive Order 12333, granting the National Security Agency unprecedented power to share raw surveillance data with the 16 other government...
View ArticleDismantling Dodd Frank, Violence in Ukraine, The Increasing Reach of the FBI
Coming up on today's show:In an executive order announced Friday, President Trump has begun the process of dismantling the Dodd Frank Act which regulates bank lending. It’s one of many rollbacks on the...
View ArticleThe FBI's Secret Rules
The FBI, this country's leading domestic law enforcement agency, has expanded its reach considerably since the terror attacks on 9/11. Once exposed for broad over-reach in the 70s, the bureau has...
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Why these librarians are protesting Trump’s executive orders
One of a series of images created by public librarian Rebecca McCorkindale in the weeks after Donald Trump took office. Credit: Rebecca McCorkindale“Libraries Are For Everyone.” That’s the message of a...
View ArticleGovernment Secrets Worth Leaking... or Keeping?
So, the C.I.A. has a back door to your phone. At least, according to the Vault 7 data dump from WikiLeaks.The documents—as yet unproven—say that if your device is connected to the internet, the...
View ArticleHighly Irregular
An expensive TV ad campaign has been selling Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch to the American people. We speak with the group behind the effort. Plus, Trump's accusations of wiretapping may be false,...
View ArticleSection 702 Is In the Spotlight
Weeks ago, President Trump claimed that former President Obama had "wiretapped" Trump Tower. This is not true. But the claim has prompted Rep. Devin Nunes, chair of the committee investigating Russia's...
View ArticleLessons from a Surveillance State
In the documentary “Karl Marx City,” filmmaker Petra Epperlein investigates a mystery from her East German childhood to discover if her father was an informer for the Stasi secret police. Watching the...
View ArticleWeek 11: Introducing a New Social Experiment
On Day 75 of Donald Trump's presidency, conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt and progressive MTV news correspondent Ana Marie Cox compare notes with host Brian Lehrer on a breathtaking list of ways...
View Article‘Unmasking’ Intelligence Reports
Eli Lake, columnist for the Bloomberg View, former senior national security correspondent for The Daily Beast and Newsweek, talks about his new reporting that former national security adviser Susan...
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Full context: Susan Rice answers questions about Trump transition spying...
Former national security adviser Susan Rice. File photo by Joshua Roberts/ReutersFormer National Security Adviser Susan Rice denied Tuesday that the Obama administration spied on Trump campaign...
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Revealing Selfies. Not Like That.
We asked you guys to send us photos. We got a photo of a woman on the beach. A giant fish statue. Teeth.Yes, really. We gave them to Andreas Weigend, veteran of Xerox Parc, former chief scientist at...
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Senators seek data on Americans caught up in surveillance
For this week’s Shortwave podcast, P.J. Tobia breaks down the multibillion dollar private surveillance industry. Photo by Pawel Kopczynski/ReutersWASHINGTON — A Democratic privacy advocate and...
View ArticleSurveillance, Privacy, and Creditors
With the help of technology, creditors are going to unprecedented (and sometimes illegal) lengths to pursue debtors.
View ArticleWe See Ourselves in Black Mirror
Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones are the surprisingly funny minds behind Black Mirror, the binge-watch of choice for dystopian techies. (Besides CSPAN.)These days, their show veers very close to...
View ArticleHow Government Spyware Tracked Activists and Journalists in Mexico
This week, The New York Times reported an explosive story: human rights defenders, journalists and anti-corruption activists had had their phones systematically hacked via spyware sold by the NSO Group...
View ArticleMuslim New Yorkers Now Have Someone Watching the Cops Who Watch Them
Shamiur Rahman was a young man lost, with some minor misdemeanors on his record and little idea what he wanted to do in life. And so he reached out on Facebook to a Brooklyn College charity that aided...
View ArticleA Russian Spy Plane Could Follow Trump to Manhattan
When President Trump comes to Manhattan next week, Russian spy planes may very well follow. After all, it's legal.The 1992 "Treaty on Open Skies," signed by the United States, Canada, Russia and dozens...
View ArticlePaging Moscow; The Fate of DACA; Meet the (Other) Candidates; Mass...
Coming up on today's show: Maggie Haberman, reporter for The New York Times, discusses why the Trump Organization was pursuing a deal to establish a presence in Moscow and she'll round up other recent...
View ArticleWhat Do We Do About Mass Surveillance in America?
Timothy Edgar, civil liberties activist, former Obama White House privacy official, and author of Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA (Brookings Institution...
View ArticleDear Manoush: The Advice Episode
You send us a lot of questions about managing tech-life. This week, Manoush has the answers. Is there a secret to managing the overload of information coming at us every day? What about all those...
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