We're at Home Watching These Things Take Place

You stated that since the public was largely denied access to the evidence, they were reduced to interpreting u f os by themselves. You go on to say, and rightly i believe, this relinquishing of authority on behalf of trustend institutions may have served a short term goal, but in the long term, it has eroded public confidence in the ability of the state to inform, protect and defend them. Could the us. Authorities have done better in the early forties, through the ties, and even in the seventies on this matter? Or were they facing an insoluble problem they knew then they could not address appropriately, so in turn, chose to obfiscate and ignoreye?