False Sense of Secrecy
I’ve written about the false sense of security afforded by most of the measures the American government has taken since September 11th, and I am a wholehearted support of Bruce Scheiner ’s many analyses of such measures. The latest trend that the press is unearthing is a disturbing shift towards unprecedented government secrecy in State laws and FOIA responses. This is a good time to remind our elected officials that, aside from the tenet that the only safe type of government is a transparent one, the September 11th hijackers didn’t use the classified reports of hunting accidents to crash plans into buildings and Timothy McVeigh didn’t need a list of how many tickets each office issued when he bombed a federal building in Oklahoma city.
The people of America must speak up: if you keep our government a secret then we’re not going to let you run it!