Political Scene: Surveillance, the N.S.A., and Our Values

This week in the magazine, Ryan Lizza asks, “Why won’t the President rein in the intelligence community?” And on this week’s Political Scene podcast, Lizza and Patrick Radden Keefe join Dorothy Wickenden to discuss this question. “It sort of comes down to a series of potentially bad political outcomes,” Keefe says. “Do you want to be associated with intrusive intelligence programs, which might upset some people who are concerned about civil liberties, or do you want to be associate...