Michael Hayden, Bob Schieffer and the media's reverence of national security officials | Glenn Greenwald

The former NSA director is held up by the Face the Nation host as an objective authority when he is everything but that

In 2006, the New York Times won the Pulitzer Prize for having revealed that the NSA was eavesdropping on Americans without warrants. The reason that was a scandal was because it was illegal under a 30-year-old law that made it a felony, punishable by up to 5 years in prison for each offense, to eavesdrop on Americans without those warrants. Although both the Bush and Obama DO...