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July 2, 2013 09:55 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/cBkwQte9K78/story01.htm
NSA stories sourced to conspiracy theorist Wayne Madsen lead to newsroomcrow-eating
The UK's Observer ran a story Sunday that reported the US working with the UK and EU nations to gather personal communications data, based on one source: conspiracy theorist and noted nutball Wayne Madsen, "whose current obsession with proving President Barack Obama is gay." The story (which wasn't even based on an interview!) went sort-of-viral, and metastasized on various linkbaity websites, but the Observer's own piece has now been taken down.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/cBkwQte9K78/story01.htm
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