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Everyone knows about the river of blood - criminals’, bystanders’, and good guys’ - flowing in Mexican streets as the country tries to get on top of its drug trafficking problem and the corruption of police and military it has engendered. What’s less well known is the pervasive inability of the criminal justice system to [...]
Archive for the ‘Secrecy in government’ Category
March 5th, 2011
February 4th, 2011
Glenn Beck has revealed himself, finally, as a covert agent of the communist/socialist left-Islamic-fanatic-Code Pink-Obama-fluoridation-currency-abasing-job-killing conspiracy. While ill-informed and unqualified naïfs like Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow give him the cover of ridicule, Beck advances his masters’ designs by describing just enough of the plotters’ workings (and for credibility, sticking assiduously to facts) to conceal [...]
November 29th, 2010
Category: Secrecy in government, Wayward press
Regarding the WikiLeaks affair, I wish to associate myself publicly with the wise comments (posts below) of the Senators from the University of Chicago and UCLA. Let me give a concrete example of why they are correct about the value of secret government communication. A few months ago, I had the honor to meet Lord [...]
November 28th, 2010
Whoever sent a quarter-million U.S. diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks should go to jail.
July 30th, 2010
Category: Secrecy in government
What the heck were the people at WikiLeaks thinking when they apparently posted identifying information about Afghans fighting the Taliban?
July 25th, 2009
The tyrannical origins of civil registration, and a private war on death certificates.
December 14th, 2008
Category: Secrecy in government
The FBI still has an agent working hard to put Thomas Tamm in prison for revealing the Bush Administration’s illegal wiretapping.
July 17th, 2008
MI5′s culture and the 42-day detention row in Britain.
March 20th, 2008
Wayward State Department contractors? I’m shocked-shocked!
March 24th, 2007
Category: Secrecy in government
A special treat for Kafka fans: the recipient of a “National Security Letter” explains how a gag order works.
