Secrets

It should come as no surprise that I am not a big fan of the FBI or the U.S. " intelligence " services. Historically, the FBI has been an instrument of oppression of leftist and progressive organizations, movements and individuals. The FBI murdered Fred Hampton, a man I greatly admired. They tried to murder Martin Luther King Jr. and it ' s just possible that they actually did. They infiltrated progressive organizations with provocateurs and disrupted their operations. They blackmailed people and they even ratf.ed the Hillary Clinton campaign and helped make TFG president.As for the CIA, they repeatedly engineered military coups to remove governments that were unfriendly to U.S. corporate interests. They allowed themselves to be used by Dick Cheney to produce fraudulent justification for the invasion of Iraq, and they tortured prisoners at his orders. The National Security Agency unlawfully spied on U.S. citizens. I could obviously go on at some length.Nevertheless, the U.S. does need to keep some secrets. It ' s a dangerous world. Secrecy is often abused. Much information is classified to save the government from embarrassment -- in other words the people they ' re keeping the secrets from are us. (A good example is information about the Tonkin Gulf incident, LBJ ' s phony justification for escalating the Vietnam war.) But it ' s obviously both a legal and ethical responsibility of government officials to respect the classification system and follow the protocols for viewing...
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