![WYPR: Midday with Dan Rodricks Podcast show](https://d3dthqtvwic6y7.cloudfront.net/podcast-covers/000/039/616/small/wypr-midday-with-dan-rodricks-podcast.gif)
Summary: Edward Snowden, facing charges for leaking documents about the National Security Agency’s massive data-gathering tactics, has put government surveillance into the spotlight. But domestic spying by a government agency is hardly new. A look back at some of the history with award-winning journalist Seth Rosenfeld, author of Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals and Reagan’s Rise to Power.