What Was The NSA Doing Giving Reporters 'Seminars'?
It turns out that the National Security Agency has been holding “seminars” in recent years to discourage reporters from covering sensitive stories. The New York Sun got their hands on the course outlines and, yeah, the seminars were exactly what you would think:
The half-day classes featured high-ranking NSA officials highlighting objectionable passages in published stories and offering “an innocuous rewrite” that officials said maintained the “overall thrust” of the articles but omitted details that could disclose the agency’s techniques, according to course outlines obtained by The New York Sun.
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