Common Sense 115 – Waterboarding the Bureaucracy

Who does the U.S. Bureaucracy take orders from? Dan looks at this question while examining the CIA and missing waterboarding videos. Also: Can we afford to let places like Pakistan have democracy?

Show Notes:

1. “Wagons circled at CIA over tapes’ demise” by Greg Miller for the Los Angeles Times, December 24, 2007.
2. “The Praetorian Guard : The US Role In The New World Order” by John Stockwell.
3. “Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond” by Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain.