{"id":4318,"date":"2015-01-10T08:12:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T13:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4318"},"modified":"2015-01-10T08:12:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T13:12:35","slug":"qa-on-the-untouchable-lords-of-secrecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4318","title":{"rendered":"Q&A: ON THE UNTOUCHABLE \u2018LORDS OF SECRECY\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q&A: ON THE UNTOUCHABLE \u2018LORDS OF SECRECY\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n

Powerful, unaccountable, and operating far in the shadows, the Lords of Secrecy, as author Scott Horton calls them, are real, and they are in charge of our national security state.<\/p>\n

Horton, a lawyer, journalist and human rights advocate, makes the case in his book,\u00a0Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America\u2019s Stealth Foreign Policy<\/a><\/em>, that because the public is allowed to know so little, it has effectively been cut out of national security decisionmaking.<\/p>\n

I had a chance to ask Horton some questions earlier this week. Here is an edited transcript:<\/p>\n

Who are the Lords of Secrecy? Name me three.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Lords of Secrecy are the heads of the national security and intelligence agencies who exercise the power to create secrets.<\/p>\n

But I think we have to designate, as the dark overlord of the Lords of Secrecy, Richard Bruce Cheney. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anybody else who even comes close. The man who\u00a0invented stamps with his own special security classifications<\/a>. He is a cult figure for the Lords of Secrecy.<\/p>\n

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Q&A: ON THE UNTOUCHABLE \u2018LORDS OF SECRECY\u2019 Powerful, unaccountable, and operating far in the shadows, the Lords of Secrecy, as author Scott Horton calls them, are real, and they are in charge of our national security state. Horton, a lawyer, journalist and human rights advocate, makes the case in his book,\u00a0Lords of Secrecy: The National […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2108,2540,2537,577,2539,2538,710],"class_list":["post-4318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-dick-cheney","tag-john-brennan","tag-lords-of-secrecy","tag-nsa","tag-robert-eatinger","tag-scott-horton","tag-secrecy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4319,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions\/4319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}