Lawfare Archive: Bart Gellman on 'Dark Mirror'
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🗓️ 1 October 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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From Monday, June 1, 2020: Journalist Bart Gellman is the author of the new book, "Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State." Jack Goldsmith sat down with Gellman to discuss the book. They spoke about Gellman's reporting on the Snowden affair, the scope of the National Security Agency's surveillance capabilities, and press freedom as it relates to national security reporting.
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| 0:25.6 | or no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:39.6 | I'm Katherine Humpfelia, associate editor of LawFair, with an episode from the LawFair |
| 0:43.9 | Archive for October 1st, 2022. |
| 0:47.1 | Earlier this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin granted Russian citizenship to former US |
| 0:51.6 | intelligence contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden. |
| 0:56.0 | Snowden is currently wanted the United States for leaking information about top secret US |
| 1:00.0 | surveillance programs. |
| 1:02.0 | In 2013, Snowden fled to Russia, where he was granted asylum, permanent residency, and |
| 1:07.5 | now citizenship. |
| 1:09.1 | For today's archive episode, in light of Putin's decree, I picked an episode from June |
| 1:13.8 | 2020. |
| 1:15.1 | In the episode, Jack Goldsmith sat down with Bart Gelman, journalist and author of the |
| 1:19.4 | book, Dark Mirror. |
| 1:21.0 | Edward Snowden and the American surveillance state. |
| 1:23.8 | They spoke about Gelman's reporting on the Snowden Affair, the scope of the National |
| 1:27.4 | Security Agency's surveillance capabilities, and press freedom as it relates to national |
| 1:32.0 | security reporting. |
| 1:36.0 | I'm Zachary Frank, and this is the LawFair podcast, June 1st, 2020. |
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