NPR Misrepresents CIA-Backed Group as Independent Expert; NY Times Under-Reports Gaza Body Count

NPR Presents CIA-Backed Group as Independent Expert on Snowden’s ‘Harm’. The piece is a summary of claims made by Recorded Future, described as a “big data firm” and “a tech firm based in Cambridge, Mass,” not as a group with “at least two very important financial backers: the CIA’s investment arm, called In-Q-Tel, and Google Ventures. They have reportedly poured millions into the company.” Not only is Recorded Future financially backed by the CIA, the intelligence community is one of its chief clients (along with Wall Street), and In-Q-Tel. It’s a registered vendor for the NSA.

NY Times Tries To Under-report Gaza Body Count. On August 5, The New York Times published a highly problematic article “Civilian or Not? New Fight in Tallying the Dead from Gaza Conflict”, that presented information supporting dubious Israeli government claims that 900 Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza, or around half of all Palestinian killed in Gaza in Israel’s current offensive, were “terrorists.”