Tonights episode of 60 Minutes featured what CBS promised was an unusual inside look at the secretive National Security Agency, but instead offered a routine look at the agencys propaganda with no critical voices. Opening with the disclosure that CBS correspondent John Miller formerly worked in the office of the director of National Intelligence, the program prompted NSA director Keith Alexander and other agents to reiterate the agencys usual talking points about bulk surveillance. the NSA has not been accused of doing that. Among his slippery answers, Alexander denied a damning Washington Post report from October which claimed the NSA was secretly tapping into the internal traffic of Google and Yahoo without permission, in order to access data before it became encrypted.
Don’t be fooled by the 60 Minutes report on the NSA
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