No end in sight

But my God, we can choose new directions, right?

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Wed, August 19, 2009

C.I.A. Sought Blackwater’s Help in Plan to Kill Jihadists

Thanks be for increased transparency, accountability, disclosure. I know the need for security is genuine, but fear-born, hidden contracts of this nature surely don't give us actual security. Nope, only the illusion, like a blanket or a pacifier.

Thank God for Panetta's choice to lay this open to Congress. It can be so foolish and stubborn, but the individuals of the Congress and the institution itself do great good and necessary things, and all of it is nullified and neutered when the checks and balances are ignored. The truth will set us free -- and isn't freedom and liberty pretty essential to the very existence of the country the C.I.A is aiming to defend?