Surveillance Now & Then with Loch Johnson

SNAFU with Ed Helms

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True Crime, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Former Church Committee Staffer Loch Johnson helps us dig deeper into the Church Committee Hearings to cover the appalling findings we didn't get to in Episode 7 of our season. Then, he takes us straight through to present day surveillance, where we try to answer the question: Where is the right balance between citizen rights and national security? Do we even have any privacy left anymore?

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0:00.0	We think of Franklin is the doddery dude flying a kite in a rain.
0:03.6	Benjamin Franklin is our subject for a new season with Walter Isickson.
0:06.6	He's the most successful self-made business person in America.
0:10.6	A printer, a scientist, a founding father, but maybe not the guy we think we know.
0:14.7	Franklin casts his lot on the side of Revolution and it's another thing that splits the family apart.
0:21.6	Listen to On Benjamin Franklin with Walter Isaacakson on the I-Heart radio app,
0:24.9	Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
0:29.1	For decades the mafia had New York City in a stranglehold,
0:32.9	with law enforcement seemingly powerless to intervene.
0:36.4	It uses terror to extort people.
0:40.2	But the murder of Carmichaelante
0:42.2	marked the beginning of the end.
0:44.0	It sent the message that we can prosecute these people.
0:48.8	Listen to law and order criminal justice system
0:51.5	on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your
0:55.3	podcasts. Welcome back to Snafu, ladies and gentlemen, your favorite show about history's greatest screw-ups.
1:12.8	I'm Ed Helms, and this past season,
1:15.0	we covered how J Edgar Hoover embroiled the FBI
1:18.1	in one of the worst intelligence snafoos of all time,
1:22.0	a daring heist that exposed it all, and then the staggering fallout that sent shock waves
1:28.2	through America.
1:29.2	Today we're back with a bonus episode.
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