Here’s John Bolton, current National Security Adviser to Donald Trump, brazenly proclaiming in 2010 that given the opportunity, he would disregard his constitutional oath and lie to the American people if he felt it necessary.  Bolton, one of the most unabashed warmongers around, was one of the primary peddlers of lies and disinformation that led to the Iraq war, and can now be seen leading the charge for military confrontation with Venezuela, Iran, and North Korea, among other countries he would be glad to get his hands on.  The idea that government must not only withhold secret information, but actively mislead the American public in order to keep us safe is one of the primary fallacies used by powerful elites like Bolton to maintain and expand a perpetual global military empire.

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