Film

Spying on the Home Front

2007 · 55m · Documentary

IMDb

7.7

Is the Bush administration’s domestic war on terrorism jeopardizing our civil liberties? Reporter Hedrick Smith presents new material on how the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program works and examines clashing viewpoints on whether the president has violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and infringed on constitutional protections. Probing such projects as Total Information Awareness, and its little known successors, Smith discloses that even former government intelligence officials now worry that the combination of new security threats, advances in communications technologies, and radical interpretations of presidential authority may be threatening the privacy of Americans.

• Rick YoungDirector · Writer

Release date

May 15, 2007

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

55m

Genres

Documentary