Hacker Cinema
Poster for Spying on the Home Front

Spying on the Home Front

2007 · Film · documentary · 55 min

Directed by Rick Young

Documentary

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.

1 positivefrom 1 commenter

IMDbTMDBTrends

Where to watch

No streaming data for this title.

1 comment on Hacker News

  1. PositivehoggleJun 9, 2013

    I know it's only movies and TV but these were still interesting to watch on all things data retention and surveillance state and are related to the topic:

    The Listening - 2006 (specifically on Echelon) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427461/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlVK906Xzr8

    The Conversation (1974) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrhRsZ56b4g

    The Lives of Others (2006) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others

    Spying on the Home Front (PBS, 2007) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/

    The Enemy Within (PBS, 2006) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/enemywithin/

    The Wire, Season 1 (HBO, 2002) Brazil (1985) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)