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Obama, Congress and the Surveillance State
The latest leaks on US intelligence came from a former government contractor hiding in Hong Kong. Everyone’s astonished at the personal data now in government hands.
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenThe latest leaks on US intelligence came from a former intelligence agent now hiding in Hong Kong. The leaker is 29-year old Edward Snowden, who worked for the CIA and as a contractor for the National Security Agency. Everyone's astonished at the personal data now in government hands. On Reporter's Notebook, what may be the world's largest art factory — in North Korea.
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2 storiesObama, Congress and the Surveillance State
Britain's Guardian newspaper and the Washington Post broke the stories last week about the National Security Agency collecting metadata on virtually every phone call made in this country and overseas and on Internet communications overseas.
Read the story46 minNorth Korea's Monument Factory
For the first time in six years, leaders in North and South Korea will hold a joint meeting on Wednesday. They're scheduled to talk about reopening a joint industrial complex in the North. In the meantime, Bloomberg's BusinessWeek is reporting on another North Korean enterprise.
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