The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years.
The media have disproportionate control of the information in our society.
In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make it very hard to write accurate histories. Also, there's a much greater opportunity for suppression of information before it can even be archived.
In Africa, there is much confusion.... Before, there was no radio, or other forms of communication.... Now, in Africa ... the government talks, people talk, the police talk, the people don't know anymore. They aren't free.
Any unveiling is also veiling. No matter how transparent our governments want to be, governments will be selectively transparent.
The secrecy stamp … has been used to withhold information which in 99 ½ percent of the cases would present no danger to national security.
In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.
There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases, even being withheld. There is a sense that there are elements of the media that are protective of Obama, that they would rather block a story that is embarassing about Obama than let the American public decide.
Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.
