In his post today, Tom explores the rise of the national security state from World War II to this past weekend, and then considers the recent imbroglio over the Senate Intelligence Committee’s still unreleased “torture report” – and what it tells us about the power of the Fourth Branch (and its limitations). This is a subject that should be part of our everyday conversation, but isn’t. Tom concludes this way: “The fact is that, for the Fourth Branch, this remains the age of impunity. Hidden in a veil of secrecy, bolstered by secret law and secret courts, surrounded by its chosen corporations and politicians, its power to define policy and act as it sees fit in the name of American safety is visibly on the rise. No matter what setbacks it experiences along the way, its urge to expand and control seems, at the moment, beyond staunching. In the context of the Senate’s torture report, the question at hand remains: Who rules Washington?”
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 20:00:01 +0000
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