Privacy vs. protection

More Behind the News with Bill Ritter

• Privacy vs. protection
• June 18, 2013 - It's the same conundrum Americans have faced since the Sept. 11 terror attacks: How much freedom are we willing to give up in exchange for keeping the homeland safe?
• A father's bliss
• June 16, 2013 - I'm still flying high from a 4-day kind of father's bliss.
• The graduate
• June 12, 2013 - We hurdle through life, often not pausing to fully appreciate all that we should. That's ok of course, because life is all about moving head.
• Edward Snowden says he's behind NSA leaks
• June 10, 2013 - So is he a hero or a criminal ? Or is he both? Edward Snowden, who worked for a contractor of the National Security Agency and who made huge headlines these past couple of days for leaking NSA documents that they spied on just about everyone.
• The first tropical storm already
• June 6, 2013 - I do not want to be the purveyor of doom, but I can't shake this slight feeling of dread as we enter this year's hurricane season.
• Does anyone care about A-Rod?
• June 5, 2013 - I think the real story about Alex Rodriguez perhaps facing a 100-game suspension and maybe no longer being a Yankee isn't that baseball's despicable performance enhancing drug scandal is finally catching up to the highest paid player in the history of the game. Instead, I think the real story is that so few people really care.
• Special election
• June 4, 2013 - What a small political needle Chris Christie is trying to thread with his plan to figure out who will replace the late U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg. Did he succeed with his call for two special elections?
• What happens now?
• June 3, 2013 - There are those who were angry at the shoving-in-line that was going on for Sen. Frank Lautenberg's U.S. Senate seat in New Jersey.
• Dangers of texting and driving
• May 31, 2013 - I think my kids are pretty good about never texting while driving. Maybe better than their dad.
• Details on 'Ricin letter' to Mayor Bloomberg
• May 30, 2013 - We were so horrified by the well-organized and precision attacks on Sept. 11. And while those terrorists inflicted so much death and destruction, the hard truth is that we are, as we're seeing, just as vulnerable to the individual whackos of every political stripe and nationality.
• Puerto Rican flag on a beer can?
• May 29, 2013 - Talk about a brouhaha. Many members of the Puerto Rican community, furious tonight over the slapping of a Puerto Rican flag on commemorative cans of Coors Light beer, the nation's third-best seller.
• Another train derailment
• May 28, 2013 - They're supposed to be one of the safest modes of transportation. So what's going on with a second train derailment in the past week?

• Violence and the young
• Terror in London
• Confusion, emotions run high after the tornado
• A split-second decision
• The murder of a Hofstra student
• The hunt for an internet celebrity
• New FDNY technology
• Angelina Jolie's choice
• What Barbara Walters means to me
• Catholic League denies priest sex abuse problem
• Ariel Castro appears in court for first time
• Christie's weight loss surgery
• Another politician facing charges
• One last time
• 3 additional arrests in Boston bombings case
• Is it news?
• Out of time and out of the closet
• A remarkable discovery
• They wanted to come here
• Say What?
• AP Twitter handle hacked
• Dzhokhar Tsarnaev charged
• The Tsarnaev brothers
• Boston Marathon bombing investigation
• Making the sausage
• Searching for answers
• A character in a good way
• Anthony Weiner's comeback?
• Costumed character controversy
• The Iron Lady and the Mouseketeer