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Bill Moyers in Conversation

Trading Democracy for ‘National Security’

Bill Moyers in Conversation

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4.8599 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear. This week on Moyers & Company,

0:07.0

Glenn Greenwald peels back the layers that reveal what the Boston bombers, drone attacks,

0:13.0

and secrecy in government have in common.

0:16.0

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of government power. One of the only avenues we have left for learning what people in power do are whistleblowers,

0:24.6

people who essentially step out and risk their individual liberty,

0:27.6

and that's why there's such a war being waged against them.

0:30.6

And two old Washington hands, Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein,

0:33.6

discuss why they decided to speak truth to power.

0:36.6

We talk sometimes about parties versus outside groups.

0:40.3

No, no, no.

0:41.3

The outside groups are part of the political parties, and so too are the media outlets.

0:47.3

If you have a government that can't function, we're all going to lose it.

0:53.3

Thanks for joining us.

0:55.0

In the aftermath of the Boston bombings and the massive manhut, which led to the death

1:04.0

of one suspect and the arrest of another, both of the Muslims, there have been calls for increased

1:09.0

surveillance and scrutiny of the public at large,

1:11.5

and Muslims in particular.

1:13.6

On Fox News the other day, New York Congressman Peter King said, if you know a threat

1:18.2

is coming from a certain community, that's where you have to look.

1:22.4

Proceed with caution here, Mr. King, and first take a look at that Council on Foreign Relations

1:27.1

analysis of an FBI study

1:29.5

showing that from 1980 to 2001, around two-thirds of domestic terrorism was carried out by American

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