Information and deception

By Simon Weaving
Updated April 18 2018 - 11:05pm, first published July 5 2013 - 7:45pm

Even for Academy Award-winning Alex Gibney, it was one of those extraordinary moments as a documentary filmmaker. In the middle of an interview with US General Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA, Hayden leaned into camera and confidently said: “Now look, let me be candid, all right. We steal secrets. We steal other nation’s secrets.”

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