Amy Goodman
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How the Pentagon Used Video Games to Spy on Users Worldwide
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April 10, 2013
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3:24Now PlayingWatch the full interview with Mark Mazzetti on Democracy Now! at In his new book, "The Way of the KnifeThe CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth," Pulitzer Prizewinning New York Times reporter Mark Mazzetti tracks the transformation of the CIA and U.S. special operations forces into manhunting and killing machines in the world's dark spacesthe 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.
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