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The Intercept Briefing

The Intercept’s Work Has Never Been More Urgent

The Intercept Briefing

The Intercept

Politics, Unknown, Daily News, History, News

4.86.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Over the past year, Intercepted has been bringing you more stories from the people behind The Intercept’s reporting. For Giving Tuesday, we’re asking you to contribute to The Intercept so that we can continue to provide hard-hitting investigative journalism. Your help allows us to report on abuses of power and serve as an independent source of news. Please visit theintercept.com/join. Thank you for listening.

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0:00.0

This is intercepted.

0:30.0

I'm John Schwartz, Senior Writer with the Intercept.

0:40.0

Over the past year, intercepted has been bringing you more stories from the people behind

0:43.5

the Intercepts reporting.

0:44.5

They even let me take the mic to talk about the business of war profiteering with Andrew

0:48.8

Cobra, the longtime national security journalist and author of the new book The Spoils of War.

0:54.0

A few years ago, they were discovered to be charging $10,000 for a toilet seat cover.

1:00.0

And when the undersecretary of the Air Force was sort of challenged on this by, I think

1:05.0

it was a congressman, he said, well, we needed to pay that prize to ensure that a profit

1:10.4

for the manufacturer.

1:12.2

For Giving Tuesday, we're asking you to contribute to the Intercept, so we can continue bringing

1:16.9

you heart-hitting investigative reporting.

1:19.2

Drittalism is harder and harder to find these days and depends on your support.

1:23.5

In the past year on Intercept, you've heard investigative reporter Sharon Lerner explain

1:27.2

how she discovered that Trump's EPA helped erase records of almost 270,000 pounds of

1:33.5

carcinogenic pollution.

1:35.0

So there are a lot of people around the country who are still breathing this stuff and just

1:40.0

have no idea.

1:41.1

We also shine to light on the Chinese government's repressive tactics against Muslims based

1:45.5

on millions of leaked police files provided to the Intercept.

1:49.0

I feel that somebody is watching something will happen in next hour.

1:54.8

And my every action and my every word recorded the camera all the time, like looking at

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