{"id":153406,"date":"2015-05-22T15:32:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T15:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=153406"},"modified":"2015-05-22T15:32:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T15:32:26","slug":"us-national-security-empire-functions-secrecy-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-national-security-empire-functions-secrecy-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"US national security empire functions on secrecy: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>A political commentator believes the United States government\u00a0operates under a veil of \u201csecrecy\u201d and \u201cmanipulation\u201d on the pretext of national security concerns.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question is about national security and secrecy, and it goes to the heart of how an empire functions and how a national security state and a police state functions,\u201d Daniel Patrick Welch told Press TV on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScrutiny is anathema to the elites who actually run things behind the scenes,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe American people have no idea what their government is doing, and to the extent that they do, their consent is manufactured by all sorts of media manipulation, false stories, fear mongering, these false low level terrorist attacks that are foiled because they are actually FBI plots,\u201d the antiwar activist\u00a0noted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Welch, who is an outspoken critic of the US government, made the comments when asked about a ruling by a judge on the US District Court of Colombia to block the American Civil Liberties Union\u2019s (ACLU) efforts to obtain secret records on CIA\u00a0torture program.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/05\/22\/412265\/US-CIA-national-security-FBI-ACLU\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A political commentator believes the United States government\u00a0operates under a veil of \u201csecrecy\u201d and \u201cmanipulation\u201d on the pretext of national security concerns. \u201cThe question is about national security and secrecy, and it goes to the heart of how an empire functions and how a national security state and a police state functions,\u201d Daniel Patrick Welch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-153406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}