24 September 2011

Double Crossing Flattery

Jigsaw Productions writes concerning its Untitled Wikileaks Project:

We are pushing on with the film. We're interviewing people like Michael Hayden -- asking him questions about secrecy and classification. Bill Leonard too. Hopefully going to dig deep on this.

But we need someone persuasive to say: "WikiLeaks is not the story! That is a distraction! Your gaze needs to be HERE. On BIG SECRETS. On the behemoth that is the secret state."

Who is in a better position to say that than you? I can't think of anyone more qualified, and more bloody persuasive. I'm not writing to you because I like the challenge, I'm writing to you because I think you're uniquely qualified, incredibly smart, and will help our film make that point.

Cryptome answers:

It is impressive that you have engaged top officials like Hayden and Leonard, ex-officials never really ex- due to lifetime secrecy vows, unbound after officeholding to doublespeak official shutmouth about spying on meddlers while mushrooming the vast secrets compendium.

Nobody who has had access to secrets can be expected to tell the truth about them, lying and dissimulation forever is a condition of access as well as for giving up access. Once in no way out. Thus required in all secrecy agreements.

We will never know what they know and they know that and are enslaved to obey the terms of privilege.

Is there a way to end this except having the secretkeepers and their irresistable liquor disappear? Likely not.

Dispensers of the secrecy liquor are manifold, not least by opportunistic opponents fond of the drink's persuasive magic.

You should video Anthony Haden-Guest, a fellow ex-pat not at all ex-, NYC bartender who masterpieces the art of loosening tongues with generous pours of flattery. Then double-crosses.