official secrets

At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee had thousands of residents and consumed more electricity than New York City. Young women from small towns across America were enticed to come there by war-ending work and solid wages. Kept in the dark about the true nature of their work they would not find out the secret until the end of the war. The women of Oak Ridge, also known as Atomic City to a select few, were indispensable to the winning of World War II. Tens of thousands of women and men contributed to the making of the atom bomb.

The author presents a scathing indictment against the Bush-Cheney administration accusing them of seizing their executive powers and permanently altering the constitutional balance of the democracy.

Reporter Peter Lance reveals how the United States government has been covering up counterterror failures since the mid-1990s, and explains how those failures contributed to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Former Nixon counsel John Dean presents an indictment of the Bush-Cheney administration, charging that the secrecy under which the Bush White House is operating is undemocratic and symptomatic that scandal is brewing. He cites what he sees as the exploitation of 9/11, the suppression of the rights and liberties of foreigners, U.S. aggression in Iraq, and other actions he says are far worse than Watergate.

Examines the life of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, and discusses his achievements and the impact of his Web-based organization on the world.

A former Pentagon official describes what the United States armed forces learned from an alien spacecraft that crashed in the New Mexico desert in 1947 and how he turned that information over to defense industry research and development for weapons technology.

Presents opposing viewpoints on the intelligence community in the United States and discusses such topics as secrecy and democracy, covert action and foreign affairs, and domestic spying.