It’s extraordinary that free governments are demanding that security be weakened because the government might want to have access. This is the kind of thing we see out of Russia and China and Syria.
Watch: On Democracy Now today, reporter Glenn Greenwald sharply criticizes NPR’s counterterrorism correspondent Dina Temple-Raston for presenting a report quoting a known CIA-backed tech firm as an objective account on the effects of the Snowden leaks on al-Qaeda cyber tactics.
“This was such a pure and indisputable case of journalistic malpractice and deceit,” says Greenwald. “NPR radically misled millions of people with this report.”
The tech firm Recorded Future claimed to have “tangible evidence” that Snowden’s leaks harmed national security by prompting terrorists to develop more sophisticated encryption programs.
Greenwald explains that the CIA had invested millions of dollars in the tech firm, that the investment arm of the agency sits on the board, and that the individual researcher Temple-Raston quotes in the report heads a company in a strategic partnership with the CIA.