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They Know Much More Than You Think
US intelligence agencies seem to have adopted Orwell’s idea of doublethink—“to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies.”
by
James Bamford
via
New York Review of Books
on
August 15, 2013
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