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State Surveillance: The Munk Debate (Glenn Greenwald & Ohanian v. Dershowitz & General Hayden)
Be it resolved state surveillance is a legitimate defence of our freedoms...
The monitoring of information -- legal and illegal -- has never been greater. Yet the threats of terrorism persist. So is state surveillance a legitimate defence of our freedom, or not? Michael Hayden (former head of the NSA and CIA) and Alan Dershowitz (lawyer and proponent of the "preventive state"
argue that it is. Alexis Ohanian (founder of the website reddit) and Glenn Greenwald (privacy advocate) argue that it isn't. The Munk Debates are an initiative of the Aurea Foundation, a charitable organization founded in 2006 by Peter and Melanie Munk to "improve the quality and vitality of public debate in Canada."
http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/ideas_20140508_44828.mp3
http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2014/05/08/state-surveillance-the-munk-debate/
https://www.munkdebates.com/