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Thursday, January 26, 2017

Wars Abroad Bring Surveillance Home


Mass surveillance is a predictable result of an interventionist foreign policy.

In this short video, GMU Econ alum Abby Hall Blanco discusses U.S. government surveillance on Americans, and explains that such surveillance is the inevitable result of an interventionist foreign policy.

Republished from Learn Liberty.


  • Abby Hall is an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida and a Senior Fellow with the Independent Institute in Oakland, California. She earned her PhD in Economics from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.