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[Viva_La_Revolution]

Douglass Cater, Washington newsman, in his excellent book, "The Fourth Branch of Government", brilliantly shows how many Congressional investigations simply are a technique for making and controlling news. Investigations, then, often are entertainment spectaculars created to attract public attention. They are a means of molding national opinion or creating fame for the investigators.

Cater wrote, "The most notable committee investigations are seldom point of fact 'investigations.' They are planned deliberately to move from a preconceived idea to a predetermined conclusion. The skill and resourcefulness of the chairman and sizable staff are pitted against any effort to alter its destined course. Whatever investigating is done takes place well in advance of the public hearing. The hearing is the final act in the drama. Its intent, by the staging of an arresting spectacle, is to attract public attention, to alarm or to allay, to enlighten, or yes, sometimes to obscure."


I read this a few weeks ago, and it has been playing in my head every time I think about the NSA hearings.

I'm scared it's true. :scared:

Edit: Copyright 1961