Addressing the question, Are we any safer now than we were before?

Addressing the question, Are we any safer now than we were before?, Bamford says, “We should have been

safe the way it was. NSA had all the information that it needed to stop the 9/11 hijackers. It had laws

that allowed it to track the hijackers.” Bamford adds that those same laws also protected the privacy

of ordinary Americans in ways that have since vanished.

The show will be repeated throughout the week on most PBS stations. Check your local listings. The show

will also be available on the PBS website later this month.

The bottom of your shoe, not the fish. The fantastic trend of protesters showing their disdain for

dictators and other official UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Bootss by tossing a shoe (or two) at them continues in

Britain, as an as-yet unidentified “European” man hurls his footwear at Chinese PM Wen Jiabao.