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"Experts often disagree about how much and what kind of intelligence should be considered classified. In addition, there can be benefits to leaking intelligence, a practice that is done by insiders with some regularity. Do citizens have a right to know about all government activities, or is security of higher value? What happens when leaks affect the safety of journalists and diplomats around the world? Who decides when a leaker is a "whistleblower"...
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"In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing black life under slavery, such as branding, runaway slave notices, and lantern laws. Placing surveillance studies into conversation with the archive of transatlantic...
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W 2013 roku 29-letni wówczas Edward Snowden-- były agent Centralnej Agencji Wywiadowczej (CIA) i pracownik kontraktowy Agencji Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego (NSA)-- zaszokował świat, odchodząc z amerykańskiego wywiadu i ujawniając, że rząd Stanów Zjednoczonych w tajemnicy pracuje nad metodami przechwytywania i rejestrowania wszystkich rozmów telefonicznych, wiadomości tekstowych i e-maili. Doprowadziłoby to do powstania systemu masowej inwigilacji...
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In June 1972 a group of men were caught breaking into national offices of the Democratic Party, located in the Watergate complex. Almost at once it had become clear that the burglars had close ties to President Nixon, a Republican running for reelection. The burglars were being prosecuted on criminal charges for the break-in, but investigators wanted to determine whether the president had known about the break-in, or possibly even ordered it. Nixon...
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"In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first...
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Air Force One: Travel with the President on a 20,000 mile international mission to see what makes Air Force One faster, most secure, and more capable than any other plane. Ride in the cockpit, witness the extensive security protocols, and learn what goes in to making each stop a "zero-fail" operation.
White House behind closed doors: President George W. Bush and Laura Bush take viewers on an in-depth tour of this iconic structure that serves as a...
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In 1948, three civilian engineers were killed in an Air Force plane crash while testing secret navigational equipment. The widows filed suit, but the Air Force, at the dawn of the Cold War, refused to hand over accident reports and witness statements, claiming the documents contained classified information that would threaten national security. In 1953 the Supreme Court sided with the Air Force in United States v. Reynolds, formally recognizing the...
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"This chapter principally reviews the development of the law in the United States since the Pentagon Papers decision. It then more briefly addresses three related subjects: the difficulties in assessing the effectiveness of the Pentagon Papers regime in permitting disclosures that benefit public debate more than they harm national security while discouraging leaks that cause more harm than good; how the US legal framework for handling national security...
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