It missed an opportunity to secure a longerterm strategic goal of Winning Public support. That is important to the Intelligence Community and their activities. Did you want to say more . You are a technology expert. You were brought on to help decode some of the slides. Some of them are cryptic to say the least. Some were amateurish. It will be interesting to see some of the slides. Those thought bubbles, are they really part of an nsa slide . I want to pull up one slide. Muscular. We should have that ready. It is the drying of the cloud. There is a smiley face in the middle. I want to say one quick thing. I have seen a lot of government powerpoint. Most of them are not classified. One of the things that convinced me that these might be authentic is the crowded, weird graphic design. [laughter] here we go. Decodingalk us through some of the slides . This one in particular. How does a slide like this lead to a story on october 30, 2013 infiltrates links to yahoo , google data sites. Rea
Have revelations and things that will make you ache again about this, and maybe theyre not so innocent. He has no revelations. Extra, go to our website to see author and journalist offer his thoughts on the book. Next, a discussion hosted for the Washington Post. Then a forum on immigration policy and border enforcement. Suggestions on possible changes to the law. On the next washington journal, reporters roundtable on the week ahead in congress. National journal correspondent macher. Ld take your we will calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern live on cspan. Prime ministers questions will not be seen tonight. Members return to the house of commons tomorrow. Martin gelman and a team of Washington Post journalists recently one they pull a surprise for their reporting on the Edward Snowden nsa leaks. Mr. Gelman took part in a panel alt behindthescenes, nsa surveillance and ongoing revelations. They spoke for about two hours. Th
Program was not essential for preventing terrorism. Over months he and other members of the panel spent interview airing Intelligence Community members and had come to the conclusion that the nsa employees, officials were well intentioned for my did not come to work every day wondering whos privacy cannot violate. They have made mistakes. They had, at best they could corrected them. He felt they deserved americans respect, but not their trust. He said, you should never, never trust the nsa because to distrust, its essential to the foundations of democracy. And i thought that was very interesting. So i think it is worth thinking about. To really try to understand the issues that are at stake and not, you know, try to personalize our demonize our impede their intent, but to understand where it is coming from from what the issues are at stake and to hold them accountable. That is their job. Both of those. To kind of combine them. I see three things to consider that we are experiencing. On
Narrator with the story of the man who exposed it all. Snowden said he was risking his freedom and possibly his life. This was a stupendous intelligence breach. Narrator and the convergence of government surveillance and an information revolution. The googles, the facebooks collect as much of our Sensitive Data as possible. But anything you hand to a private company is potentially the governments. Narrator tonight on frontline. Corporate america and the National Security state know so much about us, and we know so little about them. Narrator privacy lost, part two of United States of secrets. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from and by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening Pub
Thats a miracle of modern technology and it will either work or not work. Its very tricky. So somebody may go down, somebody may have a time delay, which is happening with one of our three guests. I guess its analogous to the quadruple somersault ringling brothers done by Miguel Vasquez in 1982. So please bear with us, well have problems from time to tim so please bear with us, well have problems from time to time, but we have an Excellent Team of techies, i know, because i cant understand anything they say. And it is now my pleasure to introduce our interviewer, roger cohen, the op ed columnist for the New York Times. Thank you. [applause] good morning, ladies and gentlemen. So were going to rely on much maligned technology to try and bring this about. And ignore who ever may or may not be listening. I think its fair to say that in the media landscape there is before and after Edward Snowden, his revelations about global n. S. A. Data vacuuming, backed with concrete evidence, the feel