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0 e-mails and so on since 9/11. she posted a bit of that one last year on "the new york times" website. >> build social networks for everybody. that turns into the graph then you index all that data to that graph which means you can pull out a community, that that gives you an outline of the life of everybody in the community. and if you carry it over time from 2001 up, you have that ten years worth of their life that you can lay out in a timeline that involves anybody in the country. even senators and house of representatives. all of them. the dangers here are that we fall into something like a totalitarian state like east germany. >> working with top-level sources like that former nsa employee, uncovering government secrets, shooting and producing her films all over the world, laura poitress, the documentarian, she has been busy. she's been doing traveling for her work, for her films, she found she gets stopped a lot at the airport and not anything like what you might get stopped for at the airport for. she's been stopped dozens and dozens of times at the airport. for interrogations that sometimes last for hours. miss poitress started taking extraordinary precautions with her data using encrypted e-mail, working on computers that were not connected to the internet. stashing her notes in safe deposit boxes. she kept on, though, getting stopped at the airport. starting in 2006, she was detained and questioned like that more than 40 times. in april of last year, salon.com wrote about what had been happening to laura poitress as she tried to travel, then finally, finally after that public attention, and that article from salon.com, the airport interrogations of laura poitras stopped. she found, okay, she can get on a plane again, more or less like the rest of us. the author of that article in "salon" about laura poitras was the loyal, blogger and civil term that you apply to everything the government doesn't want you to do. the white house, today, said it had been given a heads-up in advance that the detention of david miranda was likely to happen. britain gave the u.s. a heads-up before it happened. the white house went out of their way today to say that it was britain's decision to detain glenn greenwald's partner. it was not something the u.s. asked britain to do and, okay, fine, but the white house did know about it in advance and it still happened. we have that kind of special relationship with britain where if our government were outraged that this detention was going to happen, we could have objected, right? we could have at least asked our dear friends, the british government, to not do this. maybe in the interests of not intimidating the activities of the free press, if not for any other reason. did our government make any objections when they got advanced notice from britain that this detention was going to happen? did our government protest? and if not, why not? i tend to think that we did not protest since it went ahead. i know the u.s. government is not happy about laura poitras and glenn greenwald and the reporting about u.s. is surveillance. the president said it has led to a disorderly debate about these issues and though we ought to have a debate about these issues, it ought to be more orderly. fine. if the united states wants to convince the world that the glenn greenwalds and laura poitrases of the world is correct when they say the u.s. government is going too far, underline and put flashing red lights on the reporting that says counterterrorism is being used to justify all sorts of things not justified by the actual threat of terrorism and have, in fact, green lit gross government overreach and intrusion and intimidation of legitimate activity including journalism, then putting journalists and their families through marathon interrogations and seizing all their electronics is a really great way to start convincing the world that all that reporting is talk to us today. but, dad, you've got... [ voice of dennis ] allstate. with accident forgiveness, they guarantee your rates won't go up just because of an accident. smart kid. [ voice of dennis ] indeed. are you in good hands?