u.s. office of special counsel one of the big loopholes is that that does not cover intelligence employees or national security whistleblowers who are arguably the ones you would most want to hear from yeah it's really interesting so often when we do hear about surveillance operations most people think we're talking about you know defense and military and cia and it's really not just that there's a whole lot of other things going on that people need to be aware of great to have you on giving us your insight jesselyn radack director of national security and human rights with the government accountability project thank you you thank. and it's not just millions of dollars for the growing surveillance needs for the u.s. government purposes i mentioned something else is going on as well the household video surveillance market is now estimated by some to reach around twenty five billion dollars by two thousand and sixteen on an individual basis the value of a home surveillance system is pretty easy to spot when we think about catching burglars by letting local t.v. stations help police and posti