Hi, everybody, im david, a columnist for the Washington Post. Welcome to the National Book festival during this difficult time at the pandemic and one thing we can do, i know youre loving it like i am, read good books. A book this summer, paladin, a cia officer struggling with one of the problems of our time, knowing whats true and what isnt. Its my great pleasure to have with me today, two people had wrote two of the very best books of this summer about issues related to our new technologically sophisticated world and the dangers. First i want to introduce bart gellman, my former colleague at the Washington Post, who wrote an extraordinary memoir of dealings with Edward Snowden that led to the revelations about nsa technology and surveillance and the subtitle of barts book says, the american surveillance state. And i also want to interview introduce another outstanding author, thomas rid who teaches at johns hopkins, whose book active measures is a history of what weve come to call di
Will. Hello, everybody, welcome to the National Book festival. One thing we can do and i know you are all loving it as i am is to read a good book. I wrote a book that was published about a certain struggle with one of the central problems of our times, knowing what is true and what isnt. It is my pleasure to have with me today to people that wrote two of the very best books of the summer related to the world on the dangers. First i want to introduce Barton Gellman my colleague at the Washington Post who wrote an extraordinary memoir of the feelings with Edward Snowden that led to the revelations about the nsa, technology and surveillance and the subtitle of the book says the american surveillance state. And i also want to interview another outstanding offer, thomas rid who teaches at hopkins and has a history of what weve come to call disinformation, the ways of which our election systems, our very fabric can be manipulated by foreign governments and a history of that operation going
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Senior at the endowment, women to carnegie connects. Issues of americans in the world. The last discussion was the afternoon with a simple question, what foreign factor, our lee panelists, and myself included new the answer to that question before with we began. Not so today. The request he we pose, will american democracy survive november 3rd and beyond, is unanswerable. It may be overly dramatically rendered, but there are simply tomorrow unknowns and too many uncertainties and fears about the consequences of this election. However, there are also hopes. Rachel had written reflecting the fact for many its hard to imagine that the u. S. Wont find a way to muddle. Through. Ross argued in the New York Times on sunday that well definitely muddle through and then some. Let me quote what he said. Meanwhile, the scenarios that have been spun out in reputable publications where trump induces republican state legislators to overrule the clear outcome or militia violent intimidates the Supreme
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