prolific transparency activists, ryan shapiro, reveals he is suing the nsa, fbi, and defense intelligence agency in an attempt to force the agencies to open the records detailing how the u.s. secretly helped apartheid south africa capture leadingandela in 1962, to his 27 years in prison. we will also speak with ryan shapiro about why the fbi considers his academic research on the animal rights movement a threat to national security. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the obama administration is preparing to ask congress to reform the national security agency s own collection of phone records one of the most controversial nsa practices exposed by edward snowden. the new york times, setting an end officials, says the proposal would leave the bulk data in the hands of phone companies. to obtain specific records, the nsa would seek permission from a judge in the form of a new kind of court order