Heads Up/ "Dial Up" DU'ers! PBS/FRONTLINE: "NATION OF SECRETS" (Pt. 1) TRANSCRIPT is Available:

[KoKo]

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(I know DU'er "Scarlett Woman" and a some other DU'ers who live in very rural areas don't have access to anything but "Dial Up" and are not able to watch videos. PBS has put out the TRANSCRIPT for Pt. 1. Since Pt. 2 aired just last night, the video for that should be up in a few days. Here's the Link


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/united-states-of-secrets/transcript-61/


TRANSCRIPT:
United States of Secrets (Part One): The Program

PRODUCED BY
Michael Kirk
Jim Gilmore
Mike Wiser

REPORTED BY
Jim Gilmore

WRITTEN BY
Michael Kirk & Mike Wiser

DIRECTED BY
Michael Kirk

NEWSCASTER: That looks like a second plane.

NEWSCASTER: That just exploded—

ANNOUNCER: At the National Security Agency, they called it “the program.”

THOMAS DRAKE, NSA Senior Executive, 2001-08: We are under emergency conditions.

ANNOUNCER: Created after 9/11—

THOMAS DRAKE: Extraordinary means are required to deal with the threat.

ANNOUNCER: —collecting data on American citizens—

BARTON GELLMAN, The Washington Post/FRONTLINE: You’re looking for unknown conspirators, and the way they devised to do that was to look at everybody.

ANNOUNCER: —secrets at the highest levels of government—

PETER BAKER, The New York Times: A whole new surveillance program without warrants—

MARK KLEIN, Former AT&T Technician, whistleblower: Designed for domestic surveillance.

MICHAEL HAYDEN, NSA Director, 1999-05: What we’re doing is lawful and I think is effective.

ANNOUNCER: —through two presidencies.

Pres. GEORGE W. BUSH: This is a highly classified program.

MARK KLEIN: He was collecting the entire Internet stream.

PETER BAKER: He chose to keep the programs largely intact.

Sen. RON WYDEN (D), Oregon: That’s not just data collection, that’s digital surveillance.

DIANE ROARK, Staff, House Intel. Cmte., 1985-02: I argued it was unethical, illegal and unconstitutional, and when this comes out, all hell is going to break loose.

ANNOUNCER: Tonight on FRONTLINE, United States of Secrets Part One: The Program.

NARRATOR: The biggest leak of government secrets ever began in December of 2012 with a single e-mail delivered to an IP address in Rio de Janeiro.

LUKE HARDING, Author, The Snowden Files: Glenn Greenwald, one of the world’s busiest journalists, is sitting in his home in Rio, and he sees an e-mail from someone he doesn’t know. It’s not a friend, it’s not his mum. And it just says, “I’ve got some stuff you might be interested in.”

GLENN GREENWALD, The Guardian, 2012-13: He didn’t use his name. And he said, very cryptically and very vaguely, that he had information that he wanted to discuss with me, but could only do so if I were to install encryption.

NARRATOR: Guardian newspaper columnist and blogger Glenn Greenwald didn’t pay much attention to the e-mail.

GLENN GREENWALD: Ninety-nine percent of the time, it ends up that they’re crazy or delusional, or the story is just not very good.

LUKE HARDING: And this guy, or girl — we don’t know who it is — is persistent, so a few days later e-mails again and says, “Look, Glenn, can you do this thing?” And Glenn still doesn’t do it. This attempt, basically, to leak all of these secrets initially just goes straight into the sand.

NARRATOR: The source moved on, this time to Berlin. He was soon exchanging e-mails with American documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras.

BARTON GELLMAN, The Washington Post/FRONTLINE: She had been in contact for over a month with a mysterious source who had reached out to her using her encryption key and using anonymous channels, and said he had a big story for her.

NARRATOR: A few weeks later, in New York, Poitras met national security investigative reporter Barton Gellman at a Greenwich Village restaurant.

BARTON GELLMAN: This was something she wanted to be exceptionally careful about. We agreed on a cafe to meet at. And we also, I think, both understood that when we got there, we’d move to someplace else.

NARRATOR: Poitras asked Gellman to vet the source and meet him electronically.

BARTON GELLMAN: Her source, who became also my source, needed to take very special precautions, in the usual NSA style. And so he called me “Brass Banner” and he called himself “Verax,” which means truth teller in Latin.

NARRATOR: Through sophisticated encrypted messages, Verax promised an unprecedented scoop. But it came with a warning.

BARTON GELLMAN: He believed he was risking his freedom, and possibly his life. And he warned me, as well, that if the U.S. intelligence community believed that by getting rid of me they could prevent the story from happening, he said that my life would be at risk.

NARRATOR: In late may, Verax surprised Gellman and Poitras. He sent them an invitation.

BARTON GELLMAN: He said, “Your destination is Hong Kong.”


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/united-states-of-secrets/transcript-61/

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Thank you, KoKo!!!!

[KoKo]

7. BTW: It starts off with "9/11" Video...then goes to Greenwald/Snowden but Backtracks

to "9/11" and what Bush/Cheney did and walks through those years. Just in case folks thought it was just about Glenn & Snowden. I think they did it that way so that they could connect why they did what they did with what had happened since "9/11."

Just wanted to say that because some folks might get thrown off by it starting with the snips of Greenwald/Snowden and think it's just about them. It's only a short part of the whole two hours, but woven in.

I wish they had "Podcasted it" because you miss the sound effects and some of the intro drama with the transcript. I don't know if they have a "Podcast" up at their site...maybe it's worth a check there.

[wildbilln864]

2. k&r! n/t

[malaise]

3. K & R n/t

[scarletwoman]

4. Wow! Thank you very much!

I truly appreciate your thoughtfulness! This is great!!!

[KoKo]

9. You're very welcome. Just found the DVD is Out... Here's the link:

Don't know why the url is so long...but, it should work. It's $19.99. Its not up on their Podcast site for some unknown reason.

http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=35075566&cp=1378003.1412583&utm_source=PBS&utm_source=PBS&utm_campaign=pbs_content_fron_shoptopnav&utm_campaign=pbs_content_fron_shopmodule&utm_medium=Link&utm_medium=Link&parentPage=family

[m-lekktor]

5. actually the video for part 2 was up last night.

i watched the video for part 2 on the PBS site last night! i was surprised it was up so fast.


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/united-states-of-secrets/

[WillyT]

6. K & R !!! - Thank You For That !!!

[UTUSN]

8. k

[think4yourself]

10. Thanks for sharing.

If you cannot view the actual video this is a great alternative. I cannot recommend this particular segment enough.
This is probably the most succinct presentation of what led Snowden to choose his controversial path as I have ever seen.

[woo me with science]

11. Thank you.

[CanSocDem]

12. Good program.

Just watched part 2 having wondered at the end of part 1 last week, what they were going to be doing with Snowden. Good job and I hope it is enough to suppress the anti-Greenwald/Snowden sentiment.


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[Supersedeas]

13. I'll second that