Imposing democracy on a shadow government: Shining a light on the foreign policy establishment

More document leaks, courtesy of WikiLeaks — a new defender of democracy.

The response from official Washington? Typical McCarthyite drivel. Sen. Claire McCaskill, the Missouri Democrat, offered this — which is typical of the comments offered by the people who run our foreign policy.

The people who are leaking these documents need to do a gut check about their patriotism. And I think they’re enjoying the attention they’re getting. But frankly, it’s coming at a very high price in terms of protecting our men and women in uniform.

Of course the people in Washington don’t like Wikileaks. It damages their monopoly on information and their ability to perpetuate their own little worlds.

(Read Andrew Bacevich‘s book, The Limits of Power, to get a better handle on the issue.)

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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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