Ever wonder why you hear about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, but never about this stuff?
All-White Jury Acquit Milwaukee Police of Brutality Charges
(This link includes a rush transcript text and downloads of the story on “Democracy Now.”)
New White House Policy Chief Was “Brooks Brothers” Rioter
CIA Expands Operational File Secrecy
This gets complicated, so I’ll encapsulate the story a bit with quotes from the article:
- As they do every ten years, the CIA “conducted a review of its ‘operational files’ last year.”
- This refers to a file’s status as either “operational” or open to the public.
- Instead of removing files from operational status, the CIA “added twenty three new file category exemptions.”
- In other words, they’ve just made fewer files available under the Freedom of Information Act.
- They also twisted the law to do it. The statute addresses only the curtailing, not the extension, of a file’s operational status.
The next time you read the paper or fire up the tube, ask yourself:Â Are you sure you know what’s going on?