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Domestic Surveillance

“60 Minutes” does Infomercial for NSA with Security Official posing as Journalist

contributors 12/17/2013

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(By Techdirt)

CBS Airs NSA Propaganda Informercial Masquerading As ‘Hard Hitting’ 60 Minutes Journalism By Reporter With Massive Conflict Of Interest (via Techdirt)

Last night I started seeing a bunch of folks on Twitter absolutely trashing 60 Minutes. We had mentioned last week that 60 Minutes would be doing something about the NSA, including the revelation that some NSA officials favored granting Snowden asylum…

 

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