Best read I’ve seen in a long, long time.<\/p>\n
“In a world of war-making that has disappeared into the shadows and a Washington in which just about all information is now classified and shrouded in secrecy, the only way to be \u201csafe\u201d and \u201csecure\u201d as a citizen is, by definition, to be ignorant, to know as little as possible about what \u201cour\u201d government is doing in our name. This helps explain why, in the Obama years, the only crime in official Washington is leaking or whistleblowing; that is, letting the public in on something that we, the people, aren\u2019t supposed to know about the workings of \u201cour\u201d government.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sometimes serving your country means standing up against it.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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