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Secrecy, Diplomacy and Edward Snowden
Reports the US bugged embassies of friendly nations are threatening a massive US-EU trade deal. How much secret intelligence is too much to protect the nation’s security?
By Warren Olney • • 52m ListenReports that the US bugged the embassies of friendly nations are threatening a massive trade deal between the US and the European Union. We hear about Edward Snowden's latest revelations. When it comes to secret intelligence, how much is too much to protect the nation's security? Also, a year after Mohammed Morsi became Egypt's first elected president, millions are back in the streets demanding that he step down, and the Army has issued an ultimatum of its own.
Banner image: A television screens the image of former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden during a news bulletin at a cafe at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport June 26, 2013. Photo: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters
