Spying on the Home Front

Overview

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. 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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 15, 2007

Original language

English

Cast

Hedrick Smith

Director

Rick Young

Writer

Rick Young

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt1033179