Trevor Paglen Quotes
Oftentimes, secrecy involves creating spaces that are outside of the law but are outside the normal channels of oversight. And I think it's pretty easy to see that if you create spaces that are essentially outside the law, then you're creating spaces where anything can happen.
Paglen, Trevor. Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World. Dutton, 2009.
This was one of the best confirmations that Nixon had authorized illegal activity to further his reelection prospects and then orchestrated a cover up of the crimes.
He was criticizing the George W. Bush Administration of his own party.
The members of the Irish Parliament at that time were an almost permanent group. Their constituents, were uneducated, ignorant, and often dependent on the member and in fear of retribution if he were not elected. Like any legislative body of members or almost certain reelection, many of the members were corrupt and unaccountable.
Taken from the Nixon Tapes of June 14, 1971. This quotation illustrates the mental set of the Nixon White House where the President must be seen as infallible and obeyed without much questioning. After Nixon, that view did not surface again in American politics until the George W. Bush Presidency. The Federal Courts were not very sympathetic to the Haldeman assertion and allowed the publication.
The power structure does what they want, when they want; then they try to find reasons to justify it
He was particularly irate about politicians using junk science that would support their point of view, even though the politicians clearly had scientists in their districts who could tell the politicians that the science was poor, but they really did not care if their position was supported.
The irony of this quotation is that he is the architect and controller of the Russian system that he is criticizing.
Allan Dulles was a long time Director of the CIA.
He addressed the Prince in the Royal 3rd person “the Prince” instead of saying “You”, the 2nd more familiar person. “Stadtholder” meant Chief Executive and Ruler. Bentinck was the Stadtholder of a Province. Prince William was Stadtholder of all of Holland. Bentinck was one of the few politicians who could and would be so candid with the Stadtholder whose cronies and friends were aristocrats who had much damaged the state and were very unpopular. William did not act and died shortly thereafter. The House of Orange and the Orangists, despite strong English support, were turned out in the Dutch Revolution.
to enhance its ability to conduct surveillance
Trevor Paglen (born 1974) is an American artist, geographer, and author whose work tackles mass surveillance and data collection.
