Marcus Aurelius: CIA’s Double Standard Exploitation of Secrecy — Use It to Hide Official Attrocities, While Screwing Iconoclasts + RECAP

Secret Double Standard By Ted Gup New York Times, January 9, 2013 Cambridge, Mass. — IN the last week, the American public has been reminded of the Central Intelligence Agency’s contradictory attitude toward secrecy. In a critique of “Zero Dark Thirty,” published last Thursday in The Washington Post, a former deputy director of the C.I.A., …

Theophillis Goodyear: Dangerous Dynamics – Mistakes Rooted in Secrecy Perpetually Deny Truth

As long as the strategy of “war on terrorism” remains the same, it’s against the interests of the Pentagon to admit their strategy isn’t working. In theory that could embolden the enemy. But let’s look at two sides of that. The enemy seems to know better than we do how futile our strategy is in …

Steve Aftergood: Secrecy Czar Ungagged, Limited Data Mangles Measuring of Secrecy Tsunami

COURT LIFTS GAG ORDER ON FORMER SECRECY CZAR A federal judge this week granted permission to J. William Leonard, the former director of the Information Security Oversight Office, to discuss three documents that were at issue in the trial of former National Security Agency official Thomas Drake. Mr. Leonard, an expert witness for the Drake …

Mini-Me: Sirius, Tesla, Free Energy, extraterrestrials, Secrecy….

Huh? – – – – – – – – We discovered a brief film clip of one of Tesla’s demonstrations. It is embedded in the trailer for Dr. Steven Greer’s movie-in-progress Sirius,, beginning at 53 seconds in and lasting until 57 seconds. By rapidly double-clicking the pause button you can watch it in slow motion. No …

Steve Aftergood: Scientific Accomplishment vs. Scientific Secrecy

DALE CORSON AND SCIENTIFIC FREEDOM Dale R. Corson, a nuclear physicist who died last week, is best remembered as the Cornell University President who peacefully led his campus through the turmoil and upheaval of the Vietnam era.  But he also played an influential role in deliberations over the role of secrecy in scientific research. Dr. …

Koko: Iowa passes outrageous law demanding total secrecy over factory meat filth and cruelty practices

Iowa passes outrageous law demanding total secrecy over factory meat filth and cruelty practices Ethan A. Huff Natural News, 4 March 2012 (NaturalNews) Capturing undercover footage of extreme animal abuse at factory farms is soon to be illegal in Iowa, thanks to the passage of a new bill that squelches First Amendment protections for agricultural …

Marcus Aurelius: Blurred Line Between Espionage and Truth – Prosecution of US Truth-Tellers Rampant + Secrecy RECAP

What does it say about a country when a) half of its defense and intelligence program is arguably fraud, waste, and abuse; and b) the only people charged with espionage are the whistle-blowers that are invariably truthful about this same fraud, waste, and abuse? Blurred Line Between Espionage and Truth David Carr New York Times, …