where the state’s ostensible secrets are concerned, it has become common for government officials to tell courts one thing — nothing — and reporters another.
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5 February 2012
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ACLU sues Obama administration over assassination secrecy
So here we have the nauseating spectacle of the Obama administration secretly targeting its own citizens for assassination, boasting in public about it in order to show how Tough and Strong the President is, but then hiding behind broad secrecy claims to shield their conduct from meaningful transparency, public debate, and legal review, all while pretending that they are motivated by lofty National Security Concerns when wielding these secrecy weapons.
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26 January 2012
The CIA seems to have dictated to our democratically elected President that he can’t provide the kind of transparency necessary to remain a democracy.
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11 December 2011
Lies, Damned Lies, and ‘Fact Checking’ | The Weekly Standard
Also fortunate for the savvy news consumer, the AP apparently has a better grasp of what America’s intelligence agencies do and do not know than Newt Gingrich, a man who used to be third in line for the presidency and has received countless classified intelligence briefings.
Remember, kids: political insiders like Gingrich are in possession of Top Secret Government Conjectures of the 1990s!
You, as mere citizen or reporter, can not intelligently evaluate anything they say or do, because you have not had countless “intelligence briefings”. Your role in voting or reporting is simply to accept what the so-empowered declare and apply your rubber stamp where instructed.
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7 December 2011
It’s easy to believe that if only people wouldn’t disclose problems, we could pretend they didn’t exist, and everything would be better. Certainly this is the position taken by the DHS over terrorism: public information about the problem is worse than the problem itself. It’s similar to American’s willingness to give both Bush and Obama the power to arrest and indefinitely detain any American without any trial whatsoever. It largely explains the common public backlash against whistle-blowers. What we don’t know can’t hurt us, and what we do know will also be known by those who want to hurt us.
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3 December 2011
I honestly don’t know what’s worse —- legalizing immoral wars or running them covertly.
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2 December 2011
Exclusive: Comedy of Errors Led to False ‘Water-Pump Hack’ Report
The purpose of having a fusion center and sending out false information is to give the illusion to the general public that you know what you are doing when you don’t. Same for the DHS and the TSA. That way the public “feels safe” when they are not.
The public goes to work, when they are not unemployed, and collectively they send $3 billion a day in income tax so we can have fusion centers and wars around the world, chock full of incompetent, too scared to ask for real help, bureaucrats who only want to be left to their own brand of delusion and have a secure job and retirement.
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1 December 2011
Why in the world would any liberals possibly not find President Obama as dreamy as those long-time leading lights of liberalism, Jon Chait and Andrew Sullivan, do?
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19 November 2011
Adjusting to a leaderfull world full of self-starting network weavers, transparent and accountable about their actions—from a world of top-down leaders who use hierarchy, secrecy and spin to conduct their business, will take some getting used to.
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20 August 2011
The cruel and degrading treatment of Bradley Manning, the attempted criminalization of WikiLeaks, the unprecedentedly harsh war on whistleblowers: these are all grounded in the recognition that the technology itself cannot be stopped, but making horrific examples out of those who effectively oppose powerful factions can chill others from doing so.
