In 1988, Katharine Graham, former publisher of the Washington Post gave a speech at the CIA's headquarters in Langley: The influential Harvard government professor Samuel Huntington advocates a similar position: Samuel Huntington served as the White House Coordinator of Security Planning for the National Security Council in the Carter administration. As a consultant to the State Department in 1968, he advocated for the Strategic Hamlet program in Vietnam. He also was co-author of The Crisis of Democracy: On the Governability of Democracies, a report issued by the Trilateral Commission in 1976: Carter administration officials, including the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, Defense and Treasury all participated in the study along with the executives of major corporations and financial insitiutions, partners in corporate law firms, Senators, Professors of foreign affairs and so forth. He's an honest insider: Hintington also wrote:
It is self evident that there things which you would not let the general public know about . What on earth convinces you otherwise? Are you so young that you have never kept pets or had children or seen how ignorant , superstitious and stupid people are en masse ?
Yes there are somethings they don't want us to know the truth for one. Media outlets are biased and you need to know what to pick out of a story when it comes to politics or policy making.