Author Beverly Gage discusses why worries about homegrown conspiracies led to erosions in civil liberties and set up Hoover to gain significant power.
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They Had No Contact With Al Qaeda But Were Tried Like Terrorists
Filmmaker Dan Reed joins us to discuss the trial of the “Liberty City Seven,” accused of conspiring with al Qaeda to blow up U.S. buildings despite the fact that they didn’t have weapons or communicate with the organization.
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Can You Steal The Cure For Cancer?
Peter Waldman joins us to talk about how the FBI and NIH are quietly purging Chinese scientists at cancer research institutions, out of fear of China stealing intellectual property.
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The Feds Are Braced For Revolution
Bernard E. Harcourt joins us to talk about how counterinsurgency methods are being used to govern Americans.
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Is The FBI Prosecuting Black Identity?
Martin de Bourmont of Foreign Policy magazine joins us to talk about what could be the first case prosecuting what the FBI calls a “black identity extremist.”
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The Osage Murders
David Grann joins us to tell the story of how the Osage tribe members were suddenly being killed off – and how a former Texas Ranger was brought in to solve the mystery.
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What We Learned From James Comey’s Testimony
Rebecca Dean and Dale Carpenter join us to talk about what we learned from former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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The Spy Who Couldn’t Spell
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee joins us tell the story of how Special Agent Steven Carr identified a U.S. government agent who was close to selling a cache of military secrets to Libya.
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Twilight Warriors
This hour, we’ll talk about how the CIA, FBI and military special forces share information and increasingly work together to fight terrorism with James Kitfield, senior fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress.
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Spies Spying Spies
For three years, American Naveed Jamali filtered sensitive information to a Russian spymaster. What the Russians didn’t know was that Jamali was doing this work as a double-agent working for his native country.
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Secrets Of 1971
In 1971, eight activists broke into an FBI field office in Pennsylvania, stealing hundreds of secret files to share with member of Congress and the media.
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