surveillance programs

Glenn Greenwald, a constitutional law attorney and the political and legal blogger for Salon.com, says Democrats are disingenuously hiding behind the cover of the filibuster to justify their political inaction on the public option when they could approve it through budget reconciliation. The FBI and US attorney are investigating a Pennsylvania school district’s spying on young students through laptop webcams. For his new book, “The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State”, National Journal correspondent Shane Harris spoke to the key architects of the US government’s surveillance programs over the past quarter century and tells the story of how spying on US citizens has become both easier and legal and is now the cornerstone of the Obama administration’s national security strategy. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.