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Opinion: Transparency is precisely what American industrial leaders and the general public need to develop active whole-of-society defenses.

Opinion: Transparency is precisely what American industrial leaders and the general public need to develop active whole-of-society defenses.

When I mention I’m originally from the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., it conjures the exuberance found in ironing shirts. “I’ve heard of it,” said one guy, with a listless shrug. “By Washington, huh? Oh, man. I love Puget Sound.” And then his: “Ain’t Merryland way down yonder in the Paw Paw patch?” Finally: “Yeah, […]

Even if the U.S. national security apparatus can operate entirely outside of politics, it remains exposed to the effects of Truth Decay—the diminishing role of facts and analysis in American public life. Little work is being done to understand how severe the impact of Truth Decay is on national security and, more importantly, how to mitigate it.

This week 10 years ago, Edward Snowden exposed the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance of Americans. The US government responded with ruthless persecution — just one egregious example in the NSA’s long, sordid history of fiercely guarding its secrecy.