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“Before this episode fades into collective memory, it must be seen as a case study of power for a new generation of activists, journalists, and historians. The permanent pattern of scandal, exposé, reform, and counterreform is this: the escalation of secretive and press-managed war inevitably is accompanied by the smothering or diverting of dissent, raising the ultimate stakes between democracy and empire.”