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Sirius Disclosure
Published: 2020-05-05
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jonhkFOAR3s
one of my first cases coming out of law school was for NBC to establish the right of journalists to protect their confidential news sources I did the amicus briefs for the New York Times and The Washington Post and also for CBS and ABC and it was at that time that I began to realize that there was this close working relationship between the board of editors of
the New York Times and the national security community that there's conversations going on all the time between the the board of editors and the national security people and we actually got an affidavit from Teddy Sorensen saying that oh yes the national security statement CIA and everybody consult regularly with the New York Times to get them not to tell information about covert operations that were engaged in
I was surprised to find that out at that point I began to do an investigation about this as lawyer for The Times now in for NBC and found out that there were 42 full-time Central Intelligence Agency or NSA people employed by the major national news media and they had a whole entire project called Project Mockingbird and that they were deeply embedded with it with the major
national news media and they were constantly from their point of view safeguarding that the information that was going to be allowed to get out and it was quite clear that they viewed themselves as all part of the same basic fraternity they all shared in the patriotic vision of the Central Intelligence Agency being able to go around the world the things we had the biggest challenges with
on the Pentagon Papers case is they didn't want to reveal the fact that there was a massive assassination program going on and it was being funded by heroin trafficking you know to keep it away from the congressional funding investigations to Center I thought this was terribly newsworthy think to tell about but it was beyond the pale that was not to be talked about here you know
