Postscript re popular vs. State power
juan
juan.g71 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 6 14:24:23 PST 2016
On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 09:25:09 -0500
Steve Kinney <admin at pilobilus.net> wrote:
> > National Security and Double Government by Michael J. Glennon
> >
> > http://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Glennon-Final.pdf
>
OK. Finished browsing those more than 100 pages of 'academic'
garbage. What's the bottom line according to you?
The author is lying about the relationship between
bureaucracies like the nsa/cia/fbi etc and bureaucracies like
the US 'congress'. Both bureaucracies fully cooperate and are
sides of the same coin.
The author is of course pretty dishonest about the whole thing.
At times it seems at if he's critical of the state while at the
same time constantly praises the 'national security'
bureaucracy.
"The benefits derived by the United States from double
government —enhanced technical expertise, institutional memory
and experience, quick-footedness, opaqueness in confronting
adversaries, policy stability, and insulation from popular
political oscillation and decisional idiosyncrasy —need hardly
be recounted." Aren't his nsa buddies great.
All in all a long piece of statist propaganda from harvard
university using the very traditional americunt propaganda
technique of posing as 'liberal 'libertarian' 'critics' of the
system.
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