How the NSA Spies on Americans




Cato Video show

Summary: A leaked (and secret) court order and other documents reveal that the National Security Agency has been collecting phone records on millions of Americans for months at a time, spying on e-mail communications with the knowledge of large Internet providers and collecting a vast catalog of Americans' credit card transactions. Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute, discusses the revelations. Video produced by Caleb O. Brown and Austin Bragg.