VIDEO: Wippl on “On That Point”
Joseph Wippl, director of graduate studies at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, spoke to the BUTV10 production “On That Point” on balancing privacy and security concerns.
In the third episode of season 12, which went live on BUTV10’s website on Dec. 1, Wippl spoke to anchor Katherine Lam on a special produced on the rise of ISIS:
“In order to get a grip on what you might call ‘the bad guys,’ you’re going to have to be able to get access to their communications. It’s not against the law for the NSA or the American government to tap into the communications of foreign nationals, but in order to get into the communications of a U. S. person, you need a warrant. So there are a number of guarantees Americans have for the privacy of their communications.”
You can view the full interview, which starts around 15:27 minutes, on “On That Point’s” website.
Joseph Wippl is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. He spent a 30 year career as an operations officer in the National Clandestine Service (NCS). Wippl has served overseas as an operations officer and operations manager in Bonn, West Germany; Guatemala City; Luxembourg; Madrid, Spain; Mexico City; Vienna, Austria; and Berlin, Germany. On assignments in CIA headquarters, he served as the Deputy Chief of Human Resources, as the Senior NCS representative to the Aldrich Ames Damage Assessment Team, as Chief of Europe Division and as the CIA’s Director of Congressional Affairs. Wippl has coordinated extensively with other members of the U.S. intelligence community. Prior to his arrival at Boston University, he occupied the Richard Helms Chair for Intelligence Collection in the NCS training program. Wippl has taught at BU since 2006.