‘Front-Page Rule’ Is Unprecedented In U.S. Intelligence Community -- Walter Pincus, Washington post
Should the United States engage in secret, covert or clandestine activity if the American public cannot be convinced of the necessity and wisdom of such activities should they be leaked or disclosed?
To intelligence professionals, that’s a bizarre question. The answer is that the public’s opinion shouldn’t matter, because espionage, clandestine intercepts of intelligence and covert acts carried out by the United States and other governments are often, by their nature, dirty and mostly illegal operations where they are carried out.
The prime reason for secrecy is that you don’t want the targets to know what you are doing. But often in democracies, another reason is that you don’t want your citizens to know what their government is doing on their behalf to keep them secure, as long as it’s within their country’s law.
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My Comment: This is what happens when you have a society that becomes risk averse, unaccountable for their actions, and leaderless .... a position that I have found becoming the norm in the past few years.
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The Intelligence Community is NOT Leaderless. The principals of these secretive operations are long term furniture in congressional, think tank, secretariat, defense contractor, media, wall street and silicon valley... and even the life-membership judiciary instead of the supposed UNITARY EXECUTIVE PRESIDENCY or any oversight mechanism. The principals are SECRETIVE.
Just as Gutenberg Press created "information deconstruction" of singularity called western catholic theocracy, the current internet and asymmetrical warfare is creating "information deconstruction" of singularity called western supremacy.
The IC is unable to expose the real levers of Intelligence. You cannot win WWII without carpet bombing large parts of Axis Architecture. IC does not know how to carpet bomb its own architecture without bombing itself. And then creating a German-Protestant Martin Luther is insufficient for it will only create 500-year dyadic protestant-puritan colonialism in Intelligence-Military all over again.
So they're hoping that falling onto the Samurai sword while screaming Amrikaa-u-Akbar at the Shinto Temples will help :-)
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