▶ Glenn Greenwald: No Place to Hide - Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State - YouTube
Harvard Book Store welcomed political
commentators Glenn Greenwald and Noam Chomsky for a discussion of
Greenwald's latest book, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and
the U.S. Surveillance State.
In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out
for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have
astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on
communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source
turned out to be the 29-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his
revelations about the agency's widespread, systemic overreach proved to
be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history,
triggering a fierce debate over national security and information
privacy. As the arguments rage on and the government considers various
proposals for reform, it is clear that we have yet to see the full
impact of Snowden's disclosures.
Now for the first time,
Greenwald fits all the pieces together, recounting his high-intensity
eleven-day trip to Hong Kong, examining the broader implications of the
surveillance detailed in his reporting for The Guardian, and revealing
fresh information on the NSA's unprecedented abuse of power with
never-before-seen documents entrusted to him by Snowden himself.
Going beyond NSA specifics, Greenwald also takes on the establishment
media, excoriating their habitual avoidance of adversarial reporting on
the government and their failure to serve the interests of the people.
Finally, he asks what it means both for individuals and for a nation's
political health when a government pries so invasively into the private
lives of its citizens—and considers what safeguards and forms of
oversight are necessary to protect democracy in the digital age. Coming
at a landmark moment in American history, No Place to Hide is a
fearless, incisive, and essential contribution to our understanding of
the U.S. surveillance state.
This talk was taped on April 15, 2014.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ktRzyiIK1p8
