Today, we hear from Timothy Edgar, a senior fellow with the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Edgar’s deep knowledge of cybersecurity, government surveillance, and personal privacy uniquely qualifies him to discuss issues surrounding the ongoing investigations of Russian interference in American democracy. That’s been in the news again this week, as Republicans and Democrats write FBI memos and the president reacts once more to a story that is not going away.

Edgar joined the ACLU just before the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, then worked for several years advising the director of national intelligence during George W. Bush’s administration. He later advised President Obama. Edgar came to Brown five years ago and has recently published Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA, which has been praised by The Wall Street Journal, Publisher’s Weekly and many others.

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