Jun 07 Watch Shields and Brooks on NSA Big Data Discovery, Christie's Election Maneuver Shields and Brooks on NSA Big Data Discovery, Christie's Election Maneuver… Continue watching
Jun 07 Watch Mass Collection of Communication Data Speeds Inquiries, Prompts Privacy Debate Mass Collection of Communication Data Speeds Inquiries, Prompts Privacy Debate… Continue watching
Jun 07 Obama Administration Defends Surveillance Programs By Christina Bellantoni A look inside the NSA Threat Operations Center located at Fort Meade, Maryland. "They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type." That's the memorable closing quote from an unnamed "career intelligence officer" who provided the Washington Post… Continue reading
Jun 07 Watch Obama Defends NSA's Surveillance of Phone, Web and Credit Card Use President Barack Obama defended the NSA's secret mining of Americans' phone calls, web use and credit card transactions, saying intelligence officials use the information to find leads and prevent terrorism. The president reiterated the government is not listening in on… Continue watching
Jun 06 From the Archives: NSA Surveillance Seven Years Earlier EmbedVideo(6633, 482, 304); Watch a debate over the NSA's phone call surveillance program, which aired on the May 12, 2006 NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Under a top-secret court order issued using a provision of the Patriot Act, the… Continue reading
Jun 06 Watch With 47 Million Americans on Food Assistance, Congress Considers Cuts With 47 Million Americans on Food Assistance, Congress Considers Cuts… Continue watching
Jun 06 Breadwinners At Work: Rice, Power, Evers & Obama Myrlie Evers-Williams, Samantha Power, Michelle Obama and Susan Rice -- unwavering women who all drew headlines this week. Four women who dominated headlines this week could not be more different from one another. But each one, we are told, possesses… Continue reading
Jun 06 Watch NSA Secretly Collected Millions of Phone Records in Counterterrorism Effort NSA Secretly Collected Millions of Phone Records in Counterterrorism Effort… Continue watching
Jun 06 What's on the Obama-Xi Agenda? By Larisa Epatko Chinese President Xi Jinping, who just took office in March, and President Barack Obama meet in California on Friday and Saturday to discuss in a casual setting some issues the White House deems critical, including China's alleged cyber spying on… Continue reading
Jun 06 Obama Calls for High Speed Broadband at Schools Throughout U.S. EmbedVideo(315, 482, 304); President Obama called for expanding broadband access in schools nationwide Thursday, so that teachers can use technology to better educate their students. Learning Matters' John Tulenko reported in 2011 on one North Carolina school district which… Continue reading