THERE IS much outrage in the United States that a foreign state might have attempted to influence its 2016 presidential election. The release on October 17 of a cache of previously classified telegrams sent from the U.S. embassy in Jakarta provides new and damning evidence that the U.S. is no stranger to the dark arts of covert regime change.

Nothing justifies the mass extermination of civilians. The telegrams confirm the U.S. government knew full well that this is what it was supporting. We live in a time when truth and lies are becoming increasingly blurred. This makes it only the more important to hold those in power to account.