Letters and Politics – Hearing on NSA Surveillance
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on NSA Program. Shahid Buttar, Director of the Bill of Rights Defence Committee. Jonathon Alter.

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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on NSA Program. Shahid Buttar, Director of the Bill of Rights Defence Committee. Jonathon Alter.
On today’s show Mitch Jeserich speaks to Brian Fagan, anthropologist and author of the book The Attacking Ocean. The sea level started rising again 150 years ago and with the onset of the 20th century it rises to an unprecedented level.
Conn Hallinan, with Foreign Policy in Focus, on the US to arm Syrian rebels. Shahram Aghamir, producer of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, on the Iranian elections.
We hear Attorney General Eric Holder being questioned about the NSA/Verizon surveillance story at a Senate hearing earlier today and we’ll talk to Shane Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Shahid Buttar with the Bill of Rights Defense Committee. Then later in the show we talk to radical feminist Merle Woo about rape … Continued
The gender wage gap with Lilly Ledbetter and Noreen Farrell of Equal Rights Advocates. Jonathon Hansen, author of Guantanamo: An American History.