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Noam Chomsky, commenting on 9/11 conspiracy theories, was saying that one of the things that made them impossible in retrospect is that secrets are very difficu
by frandroid 7y ago
Noam Chomsky, commenting on 9/11 conspiracy theories, was saying that one of the things that made them impossible in retrospect is that secrets are very difficult to keep, that there are always people who will leak something.
But one thing that really stuck in my craw is how the military intelligence Chelsea Manning had access to later on was accessible by thousands of people, and there are very few who have followed her example. Similar with Snowden, except that much fewer people had his kind of access.
- Cpoll 7y agoOr all the scary declassified stuff from the 50s onward (MKULTRA being probably the most recognizable).
- LargoLasskhyfv 7y agoManhattan Project. Where workers discovered only decades later what exactly they did there, when they saw their workplace in a documentary, or even themselves. Compartmentalization, need to know only, culture of fear and mistrust, and very strong disincentives to do anything about it. Pictures: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=manhattan+project+signage&t=ffab&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=manhattan+project+signage&t=ffab&i...
- stjohnswarts 7y agoThere was a conspiracy to hide waterboarding and CIA torture chambers in the government and it took more than a decade to come out by which time a lot of the original actors were free and clear. It's sad really. I highly recommend the docudrama "The Report" if you have time to watch a movie.