Over-classification of U.S. government information is a grave threat to the Republic, giving politicians and bureaucrats the power to hide facts that aren’t really sensitive but are vital to a meaningful public debate, such as the IG report on President Bush’s surveillance program, says ex-NSA…
Category: Intelligence
Jeb Bush’s Tangled Past
Cold War II to McCarthyism II
On TV, the Enemy We’ve Met
The Oversold ‘USA Freedom Act’
Sleepwalking to Another Mideast Disaster
How Reagan’s Propaganda Succeeded
Playing with the Fire of Terrorism
Holes in the Neocons’ Syrian Story
Exclusive: The Islamic State and Al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front continue to make gains in Syria while Official Washington plays the blame game, pushing a dubious narrative that the crisis wouldn’t have happened if President Obama had just backed “regime change” earlier, Robert Parry reports.