This week on First Person we hear from Joel Schectmen, an investigative reporter for Reuters who co-wrote a series of stories in the past year about the UAE’s hacking and surveillance program. His partner on the project was Christopher Bing, also of Reuters. The two reporters discovered, among other things, that the UAE was employing Americans in its secret program, including veterans of the National Security Agency.

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