Episode 4: More than a Million Names

Daniel Soar

12 December 2025

The events of 9/11 exposed cracks in the US intelligence apparatus. In response, the National Security Agency built the most extensive surveillance system in history. What was sold as a counterterrorism measure was turned on American citizens and the line between security and privacy all but disappeared. The data captured fed the Pentagon's international kill list and the surveillance industrial complex was born.

Archive:
‘Khaled El Masri at the National Press Club’/ACLU, ‘The Johns Hopkins Foreign Affairs Symposium Presents: The Price of Privacy: Re-Evaluating the NSA’/John Hopkins University, ‘911 Forced Change in US Intelligence, al-Qaida’/Voice of America, ‘Pine Tree Foundation Endowed Lecture: Michael V. Hayden’/Free Library of Philadelphia, ‘All the News Unfit to Print’/The Intercept Briefing/The Intercept, ‘America's Surveillance State: Inside the NSA’/ENDEVR, ‘NSA Whistleblower William Binney interviewed by Richard Grove’/Peace Revolution Podcast/Tragedy & Hope, ‘Mike Rounds And John Ratcliffe Explain The Importance Of Renewing FISA Section 702’/Forbes Breaking News/Forbes, ‘Making Sense of FISA Section 702’/Inside the FBI Podcast/FBI

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