Thursday, July 28, 2011

New report on increasingly undemocratic secrecy of the federal government

ACLU- American Civil Liberties Union: Blog of Rights
Secrecy Poisoning American Democracy


  • A new report that we’re releasing today makes the case that out-of-control secrecy is a serious disease that is hurting American democracy. More and more of our government’s actions are being hidden from the people who are supposed to be ultimately in charge of that government.
    • Classification is regularly used not to protect the national interest, but to protect the bureaucratic interests of particular agencies and particular administrations. It is regularly abused to manipulate the American public on behalf of those interests.
      • Today, we’re releasing a report: “Drastic Measures Required: Congress needs to Overhaul U.S. Secrecy Laws and Increase Oversight of the Secret Security Establishment”.

      For the details and a link to the report, please go to the ACLU post.  Thanks.

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