From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

The NSA gets personal.

Hello again, I'm Norman Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

The national security agencies not only spying on

foreigners or just collecting metadata.

Files made public by Edward

Snowden show the NSA spied on

five well-known, politically active

Muslim Americans without their knowledge.

They also reveal that nine out of

ten people whose private communications

were intercepted were not actually suspects. Many were U.S. citizens. Is the NSA making the nation safer? Is it

abusing its vast resources? What happened to reforms promised after Snowden's first document dump?

Today's talking point, can the Centers for Disease Control manage its own labs?

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International Program Fund. Hello again, Warren. I'll be back with To the Point. It's been over a year since Edward Snowden's first revelations about the National Security Agency. The latest reports on files he made public show the NSA spied on well-known American public figures. And it looked at the private communications of thousands of American citizens, even though they were not official targets. Whatever happened to reforms promised

to buy Congress, we'll hear about that. Today's talking point, nobody's been infected,

but potential exposure to anthrax, smallpox, and avian flu, as the Centers for Disease Control,

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