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10:00Domestic Surveillance

A look at the role of the National Security Agency in analyzing domestic cell phone, email, Internet, banking and travel records and an update on the debate in Congress over the reauthorization of domestic spying powers.

Guests

Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and professor of information technology law at Georgetown University Law Center

H. Bryan Cunningham, attorney; former deputy legal adviser to the National Security Council, legal advisor to the CIA, and federal prosecutor.

Siobhan Gorman, Intelligence and Homeland Security Correspondent, Wall Street Journal

11:00Richard Sennett: "The Craftsman" (Yale)

Craftsmanship today can be more than just ‘skilled manual labor.’ A sociologist explains how computer programmers, artists, parents and citizens all are craftsmen in their own right. How doing a job well for its own sake gives everyone the potential to be a craftsman

Guests

Richard Sennett, professor of sociology at New York University and at the London School of Economics. Previous books include "The Corrosion of Character," "The Fall of Public Man," "Respect in a World of Inequality," and "The Culture of New Capitalism."

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