FRONTLINE: Spying on the Home Front

[babylonsister]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/#press

Spying on the Home Front
coming May. 15, 2007 at 9pm (check local listings)

(60 minutes) FRONTLINE addresses an issue of major consequence for all Americans: Is the Bush administration's domestic war on terrorism jeopardizing our civil liberties? Reporter Hedrick Smith presents new material on how the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program works and examines clashing viewpoints on whether the president has violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and infringed on constitutional protections. In another dramatic story, the program shows how the FBI vacuumed up records on 250,000 ordinary Americans who chose Las Vegas as the destination for their Christmas-New Year's holiday, and the subsequent revelation that the FBI has misused National Security Letters to gather information. Probing such projects as Total Information Awareness, and its little known successors, Smith discloses that even former government intelligence officials now worry that the combination of new security threats, advances in communications technologies, and radical interpretations of presidential authority may be threatening the privacy of Americans. (read the press release here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/#press

[Zywiec]

1. Thanks for the "heads-up"

I always like Frontline and our declining civil liberties is one of my interests.

[malaise]

2. K & R

I'll be watching.

[Nikki Stone1]

3. K & R

:kick:

[bdamomma]

4. thanks for the heads up

and all those who say "I have nothing to hide" should watch this.

[midnight]

5. How very revealing. This might explain why last Friday

a non discript car sat at the end of our drive way with their rear view mirror turned toward our home. My daughter happened to be walking her niece up and down the driveway when she came to the end of our very long driveway she say this. He realized that she was watching him, and he took off.

[Zywiec]

7. I can only assume you forgot to attach the sarcasm tag.

You don't really think you're under surveillence by the government, do you?

[Eurobabe]

6. Thanks, got it TiVOd!

:hi: