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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Steve Coll and Ryan Lizza on the ongoing N.S.A. scandal.

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Barack, Washington, Wickenden, News, Obama, Politics, Wnyc, Lizza, President

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2013

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Steve Coll and Ryan Lizza on the ongoing N.S.A. scandal.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors

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about politics. It's Thursday, October 31st. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of

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The New Yorker. NSA, in the intelligence community in general, is focused on getting

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intelligence wherever it can by any means possible,

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that it believes on the grounds of sort of a self-certification

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that they serve the national interest.

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That was Edward Snowden last June in a video interview with the journalist Glenn Greenwald

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after Snowden began revealing the secrets of the NSA.

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Now the Obama administration is facing a diplomatic crisis. The latest

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revelations are that the NSA monitored Angela Merkel's cell phone and collected communications

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data on millions of Europeans. Glenn Greenwald has promised there will be more revelations to come.

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Steve Kahl and Ryan Liza are here to talk about the crisis and the leaks. Steve, Merkel is

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