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Old 08-04-2010, 01:26 PM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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Top Secret America | washingtonpost.com

FRONTLINE: Coming Soon: Top Secret America - the top secret world the government created in response to the 9/11 attacks | PBS

An interesting story in the works by the Washington Post and Frontline...


Tin foil hats off for a minute people. This is scary stuff. There is literally a complete shadow bureaucracy and infrastructure already in place and in operation apart from our normal governmental institutions and here is the proof from a source that isn't necessarily wacky.

This is a dark and dangerous road. Why was it put there? Why can't our traditional governmental institutions take care of our needs? What is the real plan? Why do we just stay complacent, laugh off the idea as kooky and generally ignore it?
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Old 08-04-2010, 01:31 PM
 
Location: Full Time: N.NJ Part Time: S.CA, ID
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I think that, to an extent, there is a need to "shelter" the general public from a lot of the things that happen in the Gov, for various reasons.

With that being said ... this seems to be very poorly managed and overseen.
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Old 08-04-2010, 02:09 PM
 
Location: Texas
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This whole use of "classified" and "secrecy" are way overdone in my view.

A democratic republic like ours is in jeopardy when the governemnt tells the public, "We can't tell you what we're doing. It's because of security concerns. But if we could tell you, we know you'd agree that we're doing the right thing."

Dick Cheney's "energy task force" comes to mind.
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Old 08-04-2010, 02:13 PM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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A democratic republic like ours is in jeopardy when the governemnt tells the public, "We can't tell you what we're doing. It's because of security concerns. But if we could tell you, we know you'd agree that we're doing the right thing."
We seem to hear that a lot lately...
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Old 08-04-2010, 02:17 PM
 
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Can't be too top secret if PBS is doing a documentary about it.
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Old 08-04-2010, 03:22 PM
 
Location: Arizona High Desert
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The gubmint loves to estimate the sheeple as weak...In Iceland, the people value telling the truth, even if it's ugly. Of course, the government consists of some very bad people who do very bad things, and naturally, they wish to cover their hind parts, and get away with being heinous. The latter fact is universal.
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