Don’t Believe a Word of Last Night’s60 MinutesNSA Interview

Last night , CBS run a 60 Minutes special about the ongoing NSA fiasco . It take to give “ unprecedented approach to the agency ’s HQ ” and “ for the first time ” explain “ what it does and what it says it does n’t do : snoop on Americans . ” It was also , incidentally , a nap of steaming Taurus .

The problems arose even in the basic premise ; the interview was conducted by CBS pressman John Miller — who happens to be an X - employee of the manager of National Intelligence , and is rumored to be in the running for a top NYPD news problem . Conveniently , then , he was capable to monger a serial of well answerable softballs to NSA officials , tolerate them to parrot the agency’sstandards spielsabout bulk surveillance .

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So , there was muckle of magniloquence about “ not collecting everybody ’s e-mail … not collecting everybody ’s speech sound things . ” But then , the NSA was never accuse of mind in to sound calls . It did , however , collect metadata from every telephone set call placed within the United States , a follow - up point handily not raised .

Elsewhere , NSA director Keith Alexander deny reports that it was tap inner dealings between Google and Yahoo servers , and live on to great length of discredit Edward Snowden . Even the host John Miller discover him as a “ 20 - something - class - old high schooltime dropout declarer . ” All this with next to no criticism , no pushback ; no attack to indicate that the NSA has been doing anything amiss . The agency could n’t have asked for a better interview if it had publish the script itself .

Between this and the bizarre way that 60 Minutes jumped on theover - hyped drone gambit peddled by Amazon late , it seems the program is keen to execute with newspaper headline - grab merchandising point rather self-coloured reporting . Which is heavy for large organizations who have a narration to deal with zero questions asked , but a cry shame for hearing across the US . [ CBS News ]

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