FRONTLINE: United States of Secrets (Part One) [WEBRIP] [andy5421]

How did the Government come to spy on Americans?

Airdate: May 13th 2014
Length: 1hr 54m
FORMAT: FLV (FLash Video)
(Direct Rip from the site itself, no conversion)
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The NSA turned its eye on ordinary American citizens after 9/11, creating a massive surveillance dragnet to collect and monitor the communications of millions— without warrants, under a legal authority that hadn't existed before.

As FRONTLINE explores in United States of Secrets: Part One, it was called “the program”— and when it came to light through Edward Snowden’s revelations, it sparked an intense debate over privacy, secrecy, and democracy in a post-9/11 world.

How did “the program” come to be? Why did the government keep it hidden from the people it was meant to protect? And what happened to the whistleblowers who spoke out against it?