Summary: President Obama promises greater accountability of surveillance programs conducted by the Maryland-based National Security Agency. At the same time, he says the massive collection of telephone calls and emails will continue. Is the NSA’s Prism program legal? Should Americans tolerate it in the name of national security? Our guests: Gabriel Schoenfeld, Hoover Institute fellow and author of Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media & the Rule of Law; and David Fidler, law professor at Indiana University and one of several privacy experts who last week urged the Supreme Court to overturn the authorization of NSA’s collection of Verizon calls.
