Glennzilla har skrevet om dette igen og igen: En konstant krigstilstand underminerer sandheden.
A country that turns itself into a war-fighting state, a militarized empire, is choosing what kind of country it wants to be. And as long as that continues, everything else -- wild expansions of executive power, the explicit rejection of the rule of law for elites, a continuous erosion of civil liberties, ever-expanding secrecy justifications, supreme empowerment of a permanent national security class whose power transcends elections -- are all necessary and inevitable by-products.At den danske forsvarsledelse bør tage ansvar i stedet for at tørre den af på underordnede: Det er en lidt anden sag, men i grunden bare en anden side af, at man overalt i højere og højere grad tænker på overfladen end substansen. At hytte sit eget skind frem for at tage ansvar for fejl vokser simpelthen ud af den tankegang, fordi den i forvejen sigter på at undgå skadelig omtale i medierne - eller med andre ord: Ansvaret. Det er egentlig præcis som med læger, der får besked på at holde kæft om dårligdomme på hospitaler.
Hemmelighedsskræmmeriet vokser ud af nødvendigheden af, at information skal kontrolleres i krig: Information om egne styrker og ens viden om fjendens. Men det tager over og ender i sådan noget:
Today's published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found.National security. Den brugte de både med BAE og Binyam Mohamed. Den begynder at blive gammel, ligesom krigen.
The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why the paper is prevented – for the first time in memory – from reporting parliament. Legal obstacles, which cannot be identified, involve proceedings, which cannot be mentioned, on behalf of a client who must remain secret. (...)
"Four rebel MPs asked questions giving the identity of 'Colonel B', granted anonymity by a judge on grounds of 'national security'.
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