How AT&T Supported NSA Spying, Inside Terrorist Extremism, 'LOVE, CECIL' Remembers An Icon

Midday on WNYC | Jul 11, 2018

Ryan Gallagher and Henrik Moltke discuss how AT&T has offered its buildings and facilities to the NSA to monitor American's emails, phone calls and online chats. Jonathan Hacker and American-born anti-terrorism activist Jesse Morton talk about a new documentary that offers an intimate perspective on how idealism and youth can be used to create violent extremism. Lisa Immordino Vreeland discusses photographer, writer and painter Cecil Beaton who intersected multiple worlds from British royalty to Hollywood. Beenish Ahmed and Wesley Yang look at the De Blasio administration's plan change specialized high school admissions. 

This episode is guest hosted by Jenna Flanagan. 

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