Reply #16: Lost History, by Robert Perry [View All]

[H2O Man]

has interesting information on "Project Truth" and the efforts to make "perception management" an everyday part of the corporate media. On page 252, he notes that the Reagan administration "succeeded in maneuvering secrecy critics into a series of crippling compromises that expanded secrecy laws. Some of the sacrrifices were promoted by 'bipartisan' Democrats, such as Rep. Lee Hamilton of Indiana. Others were tolerated by ACLU officials, such as Morton Halperin. The rational often was that the compromise was better than what the Reagan administration might do otherwise."

It's a small world, sometimes.