And that First Fruits program was a cutout which was designed from all of the domestic surveillance take. "Let's just pipe off from all" that is involving designated [reporters] " or in some cases whole groups of reporters and journalists.
So you're targeting actual newspapers. You're targeting media outlets.
And you're monitoring -- on a persistent basis -- their communications.
The surveillance of reporters and news organizations who can't simply be bought off like the plethora of dishonest and dishonorable charlatans who are eager to serve the state for money, celebrity and inclusion at the right events, dinners and cocktail parties of the Beltway elite is a given. While Obama has escalated the programs they had their roots under the Bush-Cheney administration and even prior to that dating back to COINTELPRO and the abuses exposed by the Church Committee. Obama and his longtime fixer Eric Holder have waged a dirty war against journalism that is unprecedented in the history of this country or at least since Woodrow Wilson's filthy Espionage Act was passed. Let's hope that Greenwald's "imminent" story finally provides a wake up call that can no longer be ignored despite the thorough corruption of the domestic "mainstream" media.
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