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"democracy now." joins us via skype because its after the curfew in egypt. i read anti-americanism in egypt is at a fever pitch. >> the united states has come under fierce criticism from all sides during the latest crisis. supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsi accused obama administration of giving the egyptian military a green light for what they call a coup in ousting president. opponents of morsi, namely the military and the security state have blamed the administration for cozying...

Of our perception in the region, the safety of journalists there and american foreign policy. joining me, sharif abdel kouddous, correspondent for "democracy now." joining us via skype because its after the curfew in egypt. i have been reading that anti-americanism in egypt right now is at a fever pitch. has that been your experience? >> i think thats absolutely true, chris. the united states has come under fierce criticism from all sides during the latest crisis. supporters of the ousted presid...

Hey, folks, theres a shadow supreme court here. president obama is not the kind of guy who likes to admit he overlooked something or was hiding something. >> or that hes kowtowing to public pressure. >> all of which he did, as matt was saying. i think hes going to get right wing republicans attacking him in any way if he touched it. if i could be a monday quarterback -- it is monday. he should step back and look at it more seriously. the fisa court is an antique. it was created in 1978. the worl...

Raise the question in a lot of peoples minds about how necessary this bulk collection really is. thats an issue you havent seen the president address. its an issue a lot of people in congress are very concerned about. >> julian, on the question of how the information got divulged, youve had an enormous growth in the u.s. security state since 2001. new efforts, plus technological and legal they have, the new capabilities are tremendous. are folks like snowden a necessary check on that? because wi...

Entity that also has access. lets say a contractor like edward snowden, the potential to get at this data and access it is alarming. i think a lot of americans would want to rein that in. we have to understand we are the source of the thing that people most fear. we are sharing so much data with private companies from google to facebook, et cetera, sometimes more data than we give out in our irs returns. the government can either blind itself to it, pretend it isnt there, or subpoena and try to ...

Leakers just feeds into this idea that government is the other and its -- you know, its a dysfunctional force. i think its damaging. >> also the magnitude. 92 million -- wow, there goes your mic. 92 million classified records. were talking about an actual security state where 1.2 million people i think have classified access. were talking about government contractors like edward snowden who did not actually work for the u.s. government who have access -- >> who were vetted by government contract...

Then you had the spat between chris christie and rand paul just yesterday where governor christy said that that was a stupid idea to defun this and that if you have to look new jersey families in the eye who lost members of their family on 9/11, you would never, ever defund something like this. you had rand paul shoot back and say that were taking a very -- we need to be talking about civil liberties and privacy and that weve overstepped making a bet that people are tired of the security state, ...

Thinking one of the abiding mysteries of this story is how a guy like this gets control of so much information. i keep thinking back to joseph ellers great novel "catch 22" where it turns the entire war is being run by expfc. theres something about this security state we built over the last decade or maybe more, but certainly since 2011, that has so much classified information, so much you really do not want to get out to the public -- this is not an absolute civil liberties -- whatever you can ...

But sources of light there are in the street cast an eerie yellow/orange hue. for almost 100 years under british rule, this was rangoon. in 1948 after helping the british fight off the japanese, and with a new taste for self-determination, the country gained independence. after a decade of instability, however, the military consolidated power and never let go. elections? they came and went. the results ignored, opposition punished, or silenced entirely. burma, now myanmar, where orwell had once ...

Tear down u.s. society from the inside. and no single person captured the fear and paranoia of the security apparatus more than dr. martin luther king. so faced with what they perceived as a threat, the security state did what all security states do when faced with the perceived threat. they surveilled dr. king around the clock. they stalked his every move, broke into and bupged his office. they bugged his hotel rooms and they were trapped into his phones. the fbi and jay hoover were obsessed wi...