"The real story of the bombing, as the McVeigh defense pursued it, is complex, shadowy and sinister," Mr. Jones writes.
Brown is a serious journalist who has spent the last several years doggedly investigating the shadowy and highly secretive underworld of private intelligence and defense contractors, who work hand-in-hand with the agencies of the surveillance and national security state in all sorts of ways that remain completely unknown to the public.
We're still a military empire waging endless wars against shadowy enemies, all the while fattening the wallets of the defense contractors for whom war is money.
But what checks on Mr. Morsi may remain are now thoroughly obscured from view, in shadowy, behind-the-scenes negotiations with the generals, including the former defense officials-turned-presidential advisers, Field Marshall Mohamed Hussein Tantawi and his chief of staff, General Sami Anan.
Their critiques seemed confirmed this past month as several conservative media-driven stories fell flat, from speculation that Chuck Hagel wouldn't be confirmed as defense secretary to reports that he'd spoken to a shadowy (and fictitious) group called "Friends of Hamas".
But the overnight strikes reported Thursday were the first since September directed at the Khorasan Group, which remains a shadowy organization — despite the considerable attention it has garnered from the U.S. intelligence and defense establishments.
Despite his shadowy past (he later told Benjamin Franklin that he had been forced to kill a sailor in self-defense), he was able to secure a position as first lieutenant in the nascent American Continental Navy, thanks in large part to his Freemasonry connections.
And as we wait to see what the future holds, the uncertainty created by these shadowy forces and numerous nuclear security breaches will take their own toll on the public, as well as nuclear and defense planners alike.
Everything was grey and shadowy.
