Keefe’s previous book, Say Nothing, an investigation into the murder of Jean McConville by the IRA in 1972, won the 2019 Orwell prize. I describe in the book this congressional testimony where David Sackler and Kathe Sackler spoke last December. I should say: office of the secretary of defense sounds like it’s me and the secretary of defense. I never even personally laid eyes on the secretary of defense in the entire year I was there. But it was incredible, because I’ve always been very interested in secrecy.

Source: The Guardian May 16, 2021 08:26 UTC