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Worth a Look: Democracy in the Dark The Seduction of Government Secrecy

Too Many Secrets: What Washington Should Stop Hiding (Review by Ron Wyden and John Dickas in Foreign Affairs) From Dick Cheney’s man-sized safe to the National Security Agency’s massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured the American government’s modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. In this important new book, Frederick A.O. …

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Hans Kern Interviews Robert Steele for Rag ‘n Rock: World Brain II.0 or How We Should End Secrecy and Learn to Harness the Hive Mind

World Brain II.0 How We End Secrecy and Harness the Hive Mind Robert Steele is unusual for an American… he is clearly internationalist in his orientation. He has written a book that can bring us together in facing our greatest enemies: ignorance, poverty, and mistrust. Rear Admiral Hamit Gulemre Aybars, Turkish Navy (retired) A conversation …

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Review (Guest): Lords of Secrecy – The National Security Elite and America’s Stealth Warfare

Scott Horton 5 out of 5 Stars. Excessive control that is out of control . . . By Still Singin’ on February 16, 2015 LORDS OF SECRECY is one of the finest books I’ve read on national security “creep.” Scott Horton manages to retain at least some distance from obvious bias, but some of the …

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William Colby: Security in an Open Society — Address on Secrecy Given at NSA in 1973

Security in an Open Society The following is an edited version of the address given in the NSA Auditorium in November as the feature of Security Week 1973. PDF (4 Pages): Colby on Secrecy at NSA in 1973 EXTRACT “We are all also aware of Gresham’s law in economics, which says that bad money drives …

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Berto Jongman: Drone Report — No Thinking, Too Much Secrecy, War Without End …

Use of Drones for Killings Risks a War Without End, Panel Concludes in Report Mark Mazzetti New York Times, 26 June 2014 WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s embrace of targeted killings using armed drones risks putting the United States on a “slippery slope” into perpetual war and sets a dangerous precedent for lethal operations that …

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