"An odd thing is happening in the world's self-declared pinnacle of democracy," writes David Rohde at Reuters. "No one — except a handful of elected officials and an army of contractors — is allowed to know how America's surveillance leviathan works."
David Rohde on the 'secrecy industrial complex'
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