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Tue, 21 Sep 2004

Secrecy In The Bush Administration

The Minority Staff of the House Committee on Government Reform has released their report, commissioned by Rep. Henry Waxman, entitled Secrecy In The Bush Administration.

It's worth attention, if only to see for yourself how much power the executive branch has to destroy implementation of Congress' clear intent in law, and especially in sunshine laws.

It's the key, gang. Bush can't do his damage without secrecy -- if he tried most of what he's doing in the open, he'd be run out of town wearing a fresh suit of tar and feathers -- and he can't do his paranoid secrecy without a whole collection of executive-directive "findings."

Open government is mandatory in a democracy.

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