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http://www.smh.com.au/world/black-ops-and-espionage-inside-fox-news-20110721-1hpkn.htmlRupert Murdoch’s Fox News television channel had a ‘‘black ops’’ department that may have illegally hacked private telephone records, a former executive for the station has alleged.
Dan Cooper, who helped launch Fox News as managing editor in 1996, said that a so-called ‘‘brain room’’ carried out ‘‘counter intelligence’’ on the channel’s enemies from its New York headquarters, and that he was threatened after it found out he spoke to a reporter.
Another former senior executive told The Telegraph that the channel ran a Soviet-style spying network on staff, reading their emails and making them ‘‘feel they were being watched’’.
Rupert Murdoch's Fox News ran 'black ops' department, former executive claims http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8650631/Rupert-Murdochs-Fox-News-ran-black-ops-department-former-executive-claims.html(snip)
Another former Fox News senior executive, who did not wish to be named, said staff were forced to operate under conditions reminiscent of “Russia at the height of the Soviet era”.
“There is a paranoid atmosphere and they feel they are being watched,” said the former executive. “I have no doubt they are spying on emails to ensure no one is leaking to outside media.
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