60 Minutes has long been known for in-depth reporting that uncovers, previously unreported information, but on Sunday night, the the most shocking revelation was how out of touch the host seemed to be.

Sunday night, the opening feature on the upcoming trials of 9/11 suspects at Guantanamo Bay found correspondent Lesley Stahl surprised at the news that the US Government has a bit of an eavesdropping problem?

While reporting on the efforts of the 9/11 suspects' defense counsel to prepare for trial, defense attorney Cheryl Bormann revealed that what appeared to be a smoke detector in a meeting room was actually something else:

I'm meeting with my client in a room, and up on the ceiling...there's a smoke detector. And one day I'm sitting in there and my client stops one of the correctional guards and says “That's...what is that? You're listening aren't you?” And the guard says “Of course we're not listening. That's a smoke detector.

Bormann would go on to investigate the matter further and discover that the manufacturer doesn't make actual smoke detectors:

And it turns out they only make listening devices that are intended to look like smoke detectors and other surreptitious listening devices.

Stahl was floored. An incredulous “Nooooo!” could be heard while Bormann during Bormann's “revelation”.

Had Stahl seen anything remotely resembling a piece of news in the past week, she might have seen that the US has been accused of spying on average citizens, foreign heads of state, and even the occasional pontiff. So the fact that the US was spying on the people suspected of murdering over 3,000 innocent Americans might not be all that surprising.