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Opaque Government.

"National security" seems to be to this administration what "abracadabra" is to stage magicians.

I'm almost 70, and I've never seen an administration so jealous of its secrets, and so aggressive when its attempt to classify EVERYTHING fail. Beat Nixon's White House by a mile.

There are many reasons for keeping things secret. We can imagine, for instance, why Cheney wanted his energy policy meetings to be kept secret. But another reason is that feverishly classifying everything in sight creates a mass of data that the administration can then leak to the press under controlled conditions. It allows the people with the secrets to create a kind of pseudoworld of current events and a more carefully and purposfully shaped version of recent history.

Not that it matters much. Few people seem to be objecting and the press is paying little attention. Most likely, we feel the impact will fall on the other guy -- forever.

Posted by: RMax304823   Posted on: 07/06/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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