This week on the VICE podcast, Reihan Salam moderates a debate regarding the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked classified NSA documents to journalists about the NSA surveillance programs, the first of which were revealed last June in the Guardian.The guests today are Fred Kaplan, "War Stories" columnist for Slate and Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and Ben Wizner, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, who also serves as Snowden's chief legal advisor.

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This week on the VICE podcast Reihan Salam sits down with Jason Q. Ng, author of Blocked on Weibo, a book which examines the keywords blocked on China's most important social media site, Sina Weibo. Jason is a research fellow at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, where he studies information controls in social media. He is also a research consultant for China Digital Times and was a 2013 Google Policy Fellow. His writing and work have been featured in Le Monde, TheAtlantic.com, Foreign Affairs, and Tea Leaf Nation.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with Jerry Brito, one of the leading experts on Bitcoin. Jerry is a senior research fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center and director of its Technology Policy Program. His research focuses on internet policy, copyright, and the regulatory process. Jerry was kind enough to walk us through the world of Bitcoin, the first decentralized digital currency that now has a few imitators.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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This week on the podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with Rebecca Richman Cohen, lecturer at Harvard Law School and an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. Cohen's latest film, Code of the West, follows the political process of marijuana-policy reform in Montana, as well as the federal crackdown on medical-marijuana growers across the country.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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This week on the podcast, Reihan Salam welcomes Hilton Als, the theater writer for the New Yorker and one of America's most daring and inventive critics. In his latest book, White Girls, Als blends criticism and memoir in a series of interlinked reflections on race, sex, and art, and he discusses the book with Reihan along with his early years as a writer and what it means to cross boundaries of class, color, and culture.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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This week on the VICE Podcast, Wilbert L. Cooper sits down with Adam Minter, an expert in the global economy of scrap and author of Junkyard Planet. Adam's unique perspective as an American who was raised on a family scrap yard offers uncanny insight into the world of scrap metal and how it impacts our lives from the devices we use to the air we breathe. Today he chats with us about the environmental, economic, and ethical issues surrounding the $500 billion international scrap industry.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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This week on the podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with artist, writer, and VICE contributor Molly Crabapple, whose work deals with subcultures, politics, and rebellion. Molly discusses how she uses her sketchpad as a lock pick to the larger world, from sneaking into Manhattan at the age of 14, to illustrating the trials at Guantanamo Bay. Here is Molly's work on VICE: http://www.vice.com/author/Molly-Crabapple

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Mark Kleiman is a professor of public policy at UCLA and the author of the book, When Brute Force Fails. He is one of America's leading experts on the regulation of cannabis and other controlled substances, and an advocate of criminal-justice reforms aimed at reducing incarceration levels and violent crime. This week on the VICE Podcast, Kleiman takes us through the challenges facing the cannabis-legalization movement, strategies for limiting the harms associated with alcohol abuse, and the impact of the decades-long US prison boom.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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This week, VICE editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro speaks to Johnny Knoxville about his new film Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa. In the movie, Johnny stars as the 86-year-old poon hound Irving Zisman. After Irving's wife dies, he drives his eight-year-old grandson across the country to see his father, playing pranks on unsuspecting people along the way. On the podcast, we talk to Johnny about why his family hates these stunts, the technical difficulties of filming pranks with hidden cameras, and what it felt like to have a camera shoved down his urethra after he broke his penis.Watch 'Jackass Presents: A Slutever Bad Grandpa Special' here: http://www.vice.com/slutever/jackass-presents-a-slutever-bad-grandpa-special

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The VICE Podcast is a weekly discussion that goes inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people within the VICE universe. This week, Reihan Salam speaks with Jonathan Lethem, whose most recent novel, Dissident Gardens, is an intimate story about American radicals that spans from McCarthyism to today's Occupy movement.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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