Charlie Pierce Esquire
Charlie Pierce Esquire
Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976. He lives near Boston with his wife but no longer his three children.
 
It is an article of faith around the shebeen that the classification system employed by the United States government is as chewy a cluster of f*ck as exists anywhere concerning anything. The only thing keeping me from falling into a fugue state somewhere between joy and sheer terror is that, maybe, this newly revealed batch of Pool Shed Files were just some of that over-classified paperwork that parts of the government are drowning in.