Top White House adviser Stephen Miller on Tuesday threw an angry fit at CBS News’ “60 Minutes” for its leaked segment about the Trump administration sending immigrants to an El Salvadoran torture prison.

During an interview on Fox News, Miller accused “60 Minutes” of coddling people he described as violent criminals, even though records obtained by the program showed that only a fraction of the men the administration sent to El Salvador’s notorious Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) were convicted of violent offenses, and nearly half had no criminal histories.

“They know that these are monsters, who got exactly what they deserved,” said Miller, referring to Venezuelan men who said they were subjected to relentless torture and abuse during their imprisonment at CECOT. “Because under President Trump, we are not going to let little girls get raped, and murdered anymore.”

Miller then encouraged CBS News boss Bari Weiss to purge producers and reporters who leaked details about her decision to spike their CECOT story to other media outlets.

“Every one of those producers at ’60 Minutes’ engaged in this revolt, fire them,” Miller said. “Clean house, fire them!”

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Weiss’ decision to pull the CECOT segment has reportedly sent morale at CBS News spiraling downward, with one insider telling Vanity Fair that the mood at the network now is “dismal,” "confused,” “demoralized,” and “super fucked” over the move.

Compounding the frustration, the insider said, is the fact that the segment has already been leaked. and has been viewed widely online, including on a Canadian streaming app, rather than on CBS.

“I mean, it’s already out there, so now we just look like idiots,” they said.

The spiking of the CECOT story was further criticized by former New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan, who wrote a Tuesday column in the Guardian slamming Weiss for “her apparent willingness to use her position to protect the powerful and take care of business for the oligarchy.”

Sullivan noted that Weiss reports directly to Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, the son of Trump ally Larry Ellison, who recently made a hostile bid to buy Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD) after Netflix announced that its own $72 billion offer to buy up the media company had been accepted.

This is relevant, Sullivan said, because Ellison will need assistance from Trump-appointed federal regulators for his bid to succeed.

“The Ellisons surely wouldn’t want to antagonize anyone at this critical moment,” Sullivan explained. “And notably, if Paramount prevails, they would control [WBD-owned] CNN, and could do there what they’re doing at CBS News—they could install new editorial leadership that’s more agreeable. Trump has complained bitterly for years about CNN; this matters to him.”

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