Journalists involved in intelligence gathering?

vod_date: 
March 16, 2010

Granted, journalists' jobs are to get information and report it to the public--in a way, this is intelligence gathering. However, when that information is then used for possible assassinations and attacks ... that's a different story.

From RTAmerica's YouTube channel

Former Defense Department official Michael Furlong has been accused of setting up a network of independent contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to commit assassinations using money funneled from a program intended to help the army with intelligence gathering. Wayne Madsen investigates.