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Hello and welcome to this late political gab fest for the week of August 2nd, 2013.

The Friend of My Enemy is not aiding my enemy edition.

I'm John Dickerson, and joining me is Slate Senior Editor Emily Bazelon from where are you, Emily?

I'm in Maine.

Oh, she's in Maine.

And joining me here in Washington is Todd Purdom, the contributing editor of Vanity Fair and the newly named senior writer at Politico.

Welcome, Todd.

Thanks. Glad to be here.

David is off this week, letting the air out of the tires of BMWs across the nation. Today we're going to talk about the Bradley Manning verdict, the continued fallout from the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act decision, and Hillary Clinton in her campaign limbo,

plus we will have cocktail chatter, of course. Okay, so our first topic, Edward Snowden is a free man

for one year. The NSA Fink or whistleblower, whichever you prefer, no longer has to eat cheese crackers out of the vending machines at the Russian airport. The government has granted him a year's asylum. Two other developments. One, he's offered us another look at U.S. Secrets, new disclosure from his trove. And Bradley Manning, previously the most famous leaker of

U.S. secrets, was convicted this week. Emily, tell us about the new Snowden disclosures.

This is more snooping going on. What's different about it that we learned this week?

I think what we learned is that the government essentially has access to everything

on the internet everywhere. That doesn't mean that it actually reads everything. I mean,

there's so much data that much of it is destroyed within three days. But the metadata, the tags

that tell you where and when things are coming from, that gets preserved. And my understanding is that the government can go out three concentric circles

from the target of an investigation in terms of pouring through all of their

internet spillage.

So this is a program that allows for an enormous amount of surveillance,

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