Mark Danner and Carlotta Gall discuss coverage of “the USA Freedom Act” limiting the NSA’s domestic surveillance powers, and the declassified interviews with a former Guantanamo Bay detainee on KALW’s Your Call.
On the June 5th edition of Your Call, it’s our Friday media roundtable. This week, we’ll discuss coverage of “the USA Freedom Act” limiting the NSA’s domestic surveillance powers, and the new declassified interviews with a former Guantanamo Bay detainee detailing torture. We’ll also discuss Tunisian women’s efforts to seek justice for decades of police violence and rape. We will be joined by investigative journalist Mark Danner and NY Time’s Carlotta Gall. Join us on the next Your Call, with Matt Martin, and you.
Guests:
Carlotta Gall, Pulitzer Prize winning NY Times correspondent, and author of The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014
Mark Danner, veteran journalist, professor of English and Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, and author of “ Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War”
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