{"id":3557,"date":"2007-05-16T11:45:35","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T18:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/16\/hendrick-smith\/"},"modified":"2007-05-18T16:33:07","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T23:33:07","slug":"hendrick-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/16\/hendrick-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Hendrick Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award winning reporter and documentary filmmaker Hendrick Smith talks about his PBS special  &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/homefront\/\">Spying on the Homefront<\/a>,&#8221; about the National Security Agency and FBI&#8217;s spying on the American people \u00e2\u20ac\u201c far beyond the so-called &#8220;terrorist surveillance program&#8221; that the administration claims, the fact that the feds now have almost total access to private firms&#8217; records, why innocent people <em>do<\/em> have something to worry about, the suitably of the FISA court in handling warrants for national security threats, the unanimity of the people <em>involved<\/em> in the program that the American people&#8217;s liberty is threatened, jerking tappers around for sport and how it&#8217;s only getting worse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissentradio.com\/charles\/awhedricksmith051407.mp3\"><strong>MP3 here<\/strong><\/a>. (16:55)<\/p>\n<p>Hedrick Smith is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of several best-selling books. He has created and hosted twelve award-winning PBS prime-time specials and series on topics including Washington&#8217;s power game, Soviet perestroika, the global economy, education, and teen violence. For 26 years, Smith served as a correspondent for The <em>New York Times<\/em> in Washington, Moscow, Cairo, Saigon, Paris and the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that produced the Pentagon Papers series. In 1974, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting from Russia and Eastern Europe. Hedrick Smith has published several national best-selling books, including <em>The Russians<\/em> (1976), <em>The Power Game: How Washington Works<\/em> (1988), <em>The New Russians <\/em>(1990) and <em>Rethinking America <\/em>(1995). Smith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s books and documentaries are frequently used for college and high school courses on government, sociology, and economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>If You&#8217;re Not Doing Anything Wrong<\/em><\/strong>: You do have something to worry about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}