This is what I said when NBC used footage from the gun range in Kentucky to prop up the need for us to go into Syria “Is this the first time they (any news agency or any part of our government) have done this kind of thing?”
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Been doing it for years—IIRC-it was 60 minutes first time I heard of it—doing an expose on a truck which they helped to fire up.
Dateline NBC ?
If so, can we go back historically, collect the footage or whatever, and examine it to determine if it was what it was purported to be?