The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets - Matthew Connelly
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE • Every day, thousands of new secrets are created by the United States government. What is all this secrecy really for? And whom does it benefit?
“A brilliant, deeply unsettling look at the history and inner workings of ‘the dark state’…. At a time when federal agencies are increasingly classifying or destroying documents with historical significance, this book could not be more important.” —Eric Schlosser, New York Times best-selling author of Command and Control
Before World War II, transparent government was a proud tradition in the United States. In all but the most serious of circumstances, classification, covert operations, and spying were considered deeply un-American. But after the war, the power to decide what could be kept secret proved too tempting to give up. Since then, we have radically departed from that open tradition, allowing intelligence agencies, black sites, and classified laboratories to grow unchecked. Officials insist that only secrecy can keep us safe, but its true costs have gone unacknowledged for too long.
Using the latest techniques in data science, historian Matthew Connelly analyzes a vast trove of state secrets to unearth not only what the government really did not want us to know but also why they didn’t want us to know it. Culling this research and carefully examining a series of pivotal moments in recent history, from Pearl Harbor to drone warfare, Connelly sheds light on the drivers of state secrecy— especially incompetence and criminality—and how rampant overclassification makes it impossible to protect truly vital information.
What results is an astonishing study of power: of the greed it enables, of the negligence it protects, and of what we lose as citizens when our leaders cannot be held to account. A crucial examination of the self-defeating nature of secrecy and the dire state of our nation’s archives, The Declassification Engine is a powerful reminder of the importance of preserving the past so that we may secure our future.
©2023 Matthew Connelly (P)2023 Random House Audio
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This post has 6 comments with rating of 5/5
December 10th, 2023
thanks for sharing dlasis
December 10th, 2023
the biggest crime against humanity is the gov using UFOs to hide the fact we cracked the code to anti grav in 1954. Anti grav leads to free energy. to admit we have had free energy since 1954 wouldn’t go over well. our money is based on oil hence the petrodollar. to release free energy it would do away with the world superpowers rendering oil only useful for plastics. The US would go broke over night. Wired magazine posted an article in 2018 about how the the gov shot down over 5000 patents in a 2 year period for free engery devices under a national securtiy order.So know this when you see ufos they are not alien. they are tech the gov keeps hidden because it would destroy the petrol doller. this is why they kill people like Aaron Salter google him! anything leading away form gasoline will get you ridiculed into nothingness or killed. tin foil hat people come from ridiculing people who where researching anti grav as it uses electromagnets that produce high microwaves and had to wear tin suits to protect themselves. they became the cooky tin foil hat people. when in reality they were on to the holy grail of physics free energy and anti gravity.
December 10th, 2023
I guess the second law of thermodynamics passed you by?
December 11th, 2023
Wow, anti-gravity.
Other than it being impossible it would violate thermodynamics and relativity. Gravity is a warping of space-time. So it is clear people that who believe in it have no clue about basic physics.
I find it less about how evil our government is and more about the state of public education. Or lack of education.
December 11th, 2023
In a world that’s anti-gravity I’d be very concerned about what to pour on my roast dinner on a Sunday.
December 17th, 2023
Thank you.
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