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🗓️ 30 November 2021
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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. |
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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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