Showing posts with label Mark Mazzetti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Mazzetti. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

How the Pentagon Used Video Games to Spy on Users Worldwide ~ Mark Mazzetti

Mark Mazzetti In his new book, "The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth," Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Mark Mazzetti tracks the transformation of the CIA and U.S. special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the world's dark spaces: the new American way of war. Speaking to Democracy Now!, Mazzetti discusses the work of Michael Furlong, a Pentagon official who established a spy program run by private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Furlong's operations included "Native Echo," a video game distributed worldwide that the Pentagon employed to both spread propaganda and spy on users in the Middle East.