Ken Dilanian is the chief national-security correspondent at NBC News and its sister cable network MSNBC. He is documented — through correspondence forced into the public record by a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by Jason Leopold against the Central Intelligence Agency Office of Public Affairs — to have sent his own articles to the CIA for clearance before sending them to his own editor.[1]
John Kiriakou’s framing: “He was writing articles about the agency and then he was sending the articles to the agency for clearance before he sent them to his own editor. That is absolutely unacceptable. So they don’t need to recruit anybody in the media — they already own everybody in the media.”[1][2]