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DHS Compiles Intelligence on Journalists … Including our Editor-In-Chief
DHS Compiles Intelligence on Journalists … Including our Editor-In-Chief
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54 minutes
Released:
Aug 5, 2020
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“What if J. Edgar Hoover Had Been a Moron?” That’s the question Lawfare’s editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes asks in a new article about his experience learning that his tweets had been written up in an intelligence report by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis. After reporting on an internal DHS document and publishing other documents to Twitter, Wittes learned that I&A had distributed intelligence reports about those tweets along with the tweets of New York Times reporter Mike Baker. After Shane Harris reported on I&A’s activities at the Washington Post, DHS announced that it was halting the practice of collecting information on journalists and the head of the office was reassigned. Quinta Jurecic discussed the bizarre story with Wittes and former Assistant Attorney General for National Security David Kris. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Released:
Aug 5, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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