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kpete

(71,898 posts)
Mon Jun 17, 2013, 10:30 AM Jun 2013

We Have Entered "The Twilight Zone" Of American Politics



[blockquote]A point to remember about all this when we're talking about keeping information from "the enemy": This is all information that "the enemy" already knows because, you know, when you've run drone strikes on people, it's not a secret to them. The "enemy" who is being kept in the dark by any administration that practices this kind of secrecy, war on whistle-blowers, and treating a nominally free press as traitors, is the American people.

http://www.eschatonblog.com/2013/06/a-truly-fine-reporter-on-stuff-that.html#disqus_thread
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We Have Entered "The Twilight Zone" Of American Politics (Original Post) kpete Jun 2013 OP
''National Security'' trumps Justice. Octafish Jun 2013 #1

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
1. ''National Security'' trumps Justice.
Mon Jun 17, 2013, 10:58 AM
Jun 2013

Utter those words and if you're a government law breaker, you're safe.

If you're accused, you're in deep doo-doo.

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