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This exchange is pretty funny to anyone who knows the background on the extremely cozy relationship between Katherine Graham and the CIA. It seems that, in our post-truth world, facts have become conspiracies and conspiracies have become facts. Alas.

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Graham’s institutional connections were infamous; they also famously didn’t stop the WaPo from publishing the Pentagon Papers.

Confusing the media’s (noted) biases for compromise is an error in principled media consumption.

If you look at the number of ex-CIA/intelligence now working for mainstream media, you'd have to suffer from a very bad case of American exceptionalism to suggest the fact they do not stand up to power (after Snowden) is NOT linked to their roles as state assets.

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