James Risen, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, author of several books, including State of War, and now The Intercept's Senior National Security Correspondent, speaks at length to Jeremy Scahill on Intercepted.
Listen here: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/03/all-the-news-unfit-to-print-james-risen-on-his-battles-with-bush-obama-and-the-new-york-times/
In The Biggest Secret, Risen describes his transition into reporting on the CIA, his impression of the national security apparatus writ large, his uncovering of illegal surveillance by the U.S. government of its citizens, and the harrowing experience of protecting his sources while under heavy fire from the Bush and Obama administrations.
Read here: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/03/my-life-as-a-new-york-times-reporter-in-the-shadow-of-the-war-on-terror/
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