After weeks of delay, the CIA has decreed that much of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on intelligence failures is too sensitive for the public to know. ... a blacked-out work of art ... "Why, in this day and age, with so many diverse sources of information and entertainment, is it really necessary to read this one particular document? A large number of Beautiful People have worked very hard to produce oh so many pretty music videos for you to watch, and you'd rather read a Committee report? And the video games -- don't forget the video games. Especially those cleverly irreverent titles from Rockstar, with so much glorious swearing, and ladies, and guns, and money. Don't you have anything better to do with your time?" The CIA as History's Editor |