Who’s in charge? The Addiction to Secrecy
Chalmers Johnson, 6 February 2003
If there was anything American militarists learned from the Vietnam War it was the need – and the way – to control and manipulate the news. The extent to which they have now become masters of damage control is evident when you consider the fact that US troops killed as many innocent bystanders in Afghanistan as New York office workers were killed on the morning of 11 September 2001. A future Watergate remains a possibility: there won’t, however, be another case like the Pentagon Papers.