Episode 4: More than a Million Names

About this episode

The events of 9/11 exposed cracks in the US intelligence apparatus. In response, the National Security Agency built the most extensive surveillance system in history. What was sold as a counterterrorism measure was turned on American citizens and the line between security and privacy all but disappeared. The data captured fed the Pentagon's international kill list and the surveillance industrial complex was born.   More from the LRB: The Belgrano Diary: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/belgranowotpod⁠⁠ Subscribe to the LRB: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/subswotpod⁠⁠ Close Readings podcast: ⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/crwotpod⁠⁠ LRB Audiobooks: ⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/audiobookswotpod⁠⁠ Bags, binders and more at the LRB Store: ⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/storewotpod⁠⁠ Get in touch: podcasts@lrb.co.uk Archive in this episode: ‘Khaled El Masri at the National Press Club’/ACLU ‘The Johns Hopkins Foreign Affairs Symposium Presents: The Price of Privacy: Re-Evaluating the NSA’/John Hopkins University ‘911 Forced Change in US Intelligence, al-Qaida’/Voice of America ‘Pine Tree Foundation Endowed Lecture: Michael V. Hayden’/Free Library of Philadelphia ‘All the News Unfit to Print’/The Intercept Briefing/The Intercept ‘America's