63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want To Read, by Jesse Ventura: on Government Reform
Barack Obama:
Open Government Initiative on first full day in office
After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiatives on his first full day in office. "I firmly believe that Justice Louis Brandeis once said, that sunlight is the best disinfectant,"
Obama said, "and I know that restoring transparency is not only the surest way to achieve results, but also to earn back the trust in government without which we cannot deliver changes the American people sent us here to make."
After eight years of Bush and Cheney's secretive and deceitful ways, that sounded like a welcome relief. Obama ordered all federal agencies to "adopt a presumption in favor" of
FOIA requests and so laid the groundwork to eventually release reams of previously withheld government information on the Internet.Well, so far it hasn't turned out the way Obama set forth. Most agencies had yet to walk the way.
Source: 63 Documents, by Gov. Jesse Ventura, p. 3-4
Apr 4, 2011
Jesse Ventura:
CIA's job is often to cover up the truth
The 1964 CIA memo of "Propaganda notes" is self-explanatory. They made sure the Warren Report that concluded Kennedy was assassinated by a lone nut named Lee Harvey Oswald got disseminated far and wide. The intention was to bury suspicions of conspiracy,
part of a systematic government-promoted distribution of "propaganda."A great deal of the CIA's job seems to be to "spin" whatever happens. And for the most part, spinning is done to cover up the truth: If we've done it, then it has to be right.
Source: 63 Documents, by Gov. Jesse Ventura, p. 97
Apr 4, 2011
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