Thursday, April 5, 2012

TOM DISPATCH: The Intelligence Bureaucracy That Ate Our World

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175524/tomgram:_engelhardt,_the_intelligence_bureaucracy_that_ate_our_world/

If Americans were to hoist a flag designed for this moment, it might read “Tread on Me” and use that classic illustration of the boa constrictor swallowing an elephant from Saint-ExupĂ©ry’s The Little Prince.  That, at least, would catch something of the absurdity of what the National Security Complex has decided to swallow of our American world.

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