Spying on Reporters in the War on Terror

Midday on WNYC | Jan 12, 2018

Journalist James Risen, The Intercept’s senior national security correspondent, talks about his latest story, “The Biggest Secret: My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror” about the increasingly high level of surveillance he and other reporters felt while covering the CIA under the Bush and Obama administrations.

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