Deep State: Inside The Government Secrecy Industry - Plot & Excerpts
Assange’s weapon, until it began to fall apart due to a lack of funding, government legal attacks, and personality conflicts within the organization, was an online database designed for anonymous officials, journalists, and whistleblowers to upload sensitive material for public consumption without fear of repercussions. His goal was the world stage. His method was laced with irony, which he has acknowledged. Nobody knows with certainty what secrets he possesses; his secrets are secret. And his modus operandi was to drip, drip, drip each classified document and government secret into the public record. Official denials and deflections are countered by evidence to the contrary. And by publishing these classified documents, Assange thought he could strike a shattering blow for transparency and accountability with such force as to jar loose the intellectually calcified philosophy whereby governments use secrecy to advance their nefarious, destructive agendas. Using his stated criteria for success as a metric, in many ways Assange has achieved a measure of his goals.
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