“In recent years, we’ve seen the growth of a canker on the
Constitution. A swelling blind spot where were are increasingly not
allowed to look. I’m talking about abuse of governmental secrecy.
‘We the people’ cannot effectively self-govern when certain things
are routinely hidden from our view.“Now, of course certain things need to be classified (it needs
to be said, before the comment section below overfloweth). Yes,
yes, we need to have some secrets from the bad guys. But we ought
to recognize that democracy pays a steep price for each and every
thing we classify. We ought to do it very, very sparingly. Even
unwillingly…”
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