CBS 60 Minutes Takes 'Heat' For Their 'Puff-Piece' On The NSA

60 Minutes Puff Piece Claims NSA Saved U.S. From Cyberterrorism -- Threat Level/Danger Room

Well, don’t we feel just a little bit ashamed today. While we’ve been whining about trivia like the frightening scope of the NSA’s domestic spying programs – scooping up all our cell phone records, wiretapping American tech companies – the criminally poor oversight provided by rubber stamp lawmakers, and the flagrant lies of top level spooks like DNI James Clapper, the poor misunderstood folks at Ft. Meade have been quietly saving each and every one of us from a Chinese plot to destroy all of our computers. Every last one of them. The computer on which I’m typing was rescued from ruin by NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander. I tweet and blog under the blanket of the very freedom that he provides.

That was one of the things I learned from last night’s 60 Minutes’ half-hour video love letter to the NSA. While “a twentysomething-year-old high school dropout contractor” named Edward Snowden is making all this trouble, better schooled NSA experts are protecting us from malware.

Read more ....

More News On CBS 60 Minutes Report On The NSA

NSA goes on 60 Minutes: the definitive facts behind CBS's flawed report -- The Guardian
60 Minutes attains new journalistic low with NSA puff-piece -- Boing Boing
60 Minutes' NSA Report: An Awful Lot Like MTV Cribs -- Slate
Why Did 60 Minutes Let the Head of the NSA Fool Its Audience? -- Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic
60 sickening Minutes: NSA saved us from Chinese Dr. Evil BIOS plot to brick all PCs -- Computer World
It’s Time For 60 Minutes to Die -- Gawker
'60 Minutes': NSA Good, Snowden Bad -- The Wire
Sunday's NSA report confirms it: 60 Minutes is now in the spin business -- Bob Garfield, The Guardian
The Sad Decline of ‘60 Minutes’ Continues With This Week’s NSA Whitewash -- Greg Mitchell, The Nation
4 Things to Keep in Mind About the 60 Minutes NSA Piece (as You Pick Your Jaw Up Off the Floor) -- Ryot
Did NSA Invent Fake Malware Threat On '60 Minutes?' -- International Business Times
A Question for 60 Minutes: Why Would China Want to Destroy the Global Economy? -- Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic

My Comment: John Miller was the wrong person to do this report. He comes from the intelligence community .... and I would hazard that many of his friends are still working in this community. Then again .... this is probably the reason why these intelligence officials gave him and 60 Minutes access to the NSA .... he is one of them. As to the report from 60 Minutes .... I was more than sorely disappointed. I saw well dressed men talking about the work they do and how Edward Snowden has made their lives difficult .... there was (of course) no deep discussion on any NSA program and what it may mean to our personal privacy. Even some of the facts that they presented in this report stretches the imagination .... especially the part on China's alleged BIOS plot to brick all PCs. In the end .... this was a "puff-piece" that had everyone voicing the same government script when it comes to the NSA .... including from CBS correspondent John Miller.