James Risen & Philip Gourevitch in Conversation
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From a 2006 PEN Event, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James Risen speaks with PEN Board Member and former Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch about the importance of a free press, the demagoguery of 9/11, the greatest strategic failure in American history, and breaking the NSA spy story. Read PEN’s protest of the NSA phone surveillance program here.