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Is NPR using terrorism to attack free speech rights?

Glenn Greenwald | November 11, 2010

Panel discussion. Glenn speaks at 30 minutes into the discussion.

Glenn Greenwald:

At roughly 53:00, the Q-and-A session with the audience began, and the first questioner was NPR’s national security reporter Dina Temple-Raston, whose Awlaki reporting I had criticized just a couple days earlier for uncritically repeating claims told to her by anonymous Pentagon officials.  She directed her rather critical multi-part question to me, claiming, among other things, that she had seen evidence of Awlaki’s guilt as a Terrorist (which she had not previously reported or described in any detail), and that led to a rather contentious — and, in my view, quite revealing — exchange about the role of journalists and how Awlaki can and should be punished if he is, in fact, guilty of any actual crime:

November 12, 2010 - Posted by | Civil Liberties, False Flag Terrorism, Timeless or most popular, Video

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