Since the spring of last year, when the Snowden documents began to support scoops and stories, the media has had a problem: It is hard to depict the places and programs that Snowden’s stories describe.
It may sound simple, but it’s a problem practical and profound. The lack of photographs that even show the government’s intelligence agencies mean that the same pictures get used over and over again
Just as the same couple of Snowden pics kept appearing in stories early on, there’s basically only one photo of the NSA headquarters:
Image: National Security Agency NSA
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