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Contributor james peterson takes to task those focusing on the nsa story while for the most part ignoring the stop and frisk story by ask "how can we have a discussion about civil liberties and security and privacy and safety without connecting it to the physical surveillance to which black and brown americans have been historically subject?" joining me now is msnbc contributor james peterson, director of africana studies at lehigh university. david sirota, columnist for salon.com. just joined nfswcorp.com as well. james, what caused you to write the piece? >> well, i mean, i think a few thing...

Joining me now is msnbc contributor james peterson, director of africana studies at lehigh university. david sirota, columnist for salon.com. just joined nfswcorp.com as well. james, what caused you to write the piece? >> well, i mean, i think a few things caused me to write it. one, wanted to sort of put on the table the fact that i've had some of these experiences, myself, and try to give a broader sense of what might be the way forward for us to connect the dots across some of these very, very important conversations. i'm following folk talking about stop and frisk and following folk talkin...

Very different relationships necessarily to who the executive is. do you think we'll see a change if and when president obama were to leave office? >> we might, but i think at the core here is that there's no data that suggests that stop and frisk reduces crime. there's other things, community policing, different demographic patterns or different things that factor into that. that's the same thing about the nsa and war on terror. if we want to prosecute the war on terror, we have to change foreign policy and stop making this clumsy violent interventions we make around the world. there's long f...

Found she gets stopped a lot at the airport and not anything like what you might get stopped for at the airport for. she's been stopped dozens and dozens of times at the airport. for interrogations that sometimes last for hours. miss poitress started taking extraordinary precautions with her data using encrypted e-mail, working on computers that were not connected to the internet. stashing her notes in safe deposit boxes. she kept on, though, getting stopped at the airport. starting in 2006, she was detained and questioned like that more than 40 times. in april of last year, salon.com wrote ab...

The airport and not anything like what you might get stopped for at the airport for. she's been stopped dozens and dozens of times at the airport. for interrogations that sometimes last for hours. miss poitras started taking extraordinary precautions with her data using encrypted e-mail, working on computers that were not connected to the internet. stashing her notes in safe deposit boxes. she kept on, though, getting stopped at the airport. starting in 2006, she was detained and questioned like that more than 40 times. in april of last year, salon.com wrote about what had been happening to...