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You know, perhaps I am entirely too cynical but it does not surprise me one bit that this is not being reported.
I mean, what exactly would people find out that they didn't know about their government or media? That the media is corrupt? We all know that. That the Defense Department does things for nefarious reasons and is also corrupt? We know that. That the government compulsively uses a network of conflict-of-interest ridden "independent" experts to back up anything it wants to do? We know that.
These are among the reasons, after all, the American people are angry -- bitter even -- at the things that are going on in this country and, the more we find out, the less it seems we can do about it. The tentacles of corruption are everywhere, it seems.
None of the establishment figures in our country today will I trust with $5; nonetheless, they have near total control over what this country does because, to be completely honest, people WANT to believe them. We elected them, we gave them good TV ratings, we want to trust them, we NEED people to trust who have control over us but, deep down, we know we can't. The American people are in denial. A corruption story that goes to the heart of that hollow trust will never get the light of day, as a result.
