{"id":24844,"date":"2011-12-25T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T21:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/25\/too-many-secrets-marty.html"},"modified":"2011-12-26T12:29:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T19:29:58","slug":"too-many-secrets-marty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/25\/too-many-secrets-marty.html","title":{"rendered":"Too many secrets, Marty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even more than the Cold War, the never-ending War on Terror seems to have turned our government into a house of secrets, where everything is classified, everything has to be kept under wraps because of &quot;national security,&quot; and any accountability for same is &#8230; also a tightly-held secret.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s hard to have a functioning democracy when massive parts of what your elected representatives do is not available for your review. And that&#39;s an issue that crosses all party lines. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2011\/12\/2011-review-year-secrecy-jumped-shark'>2011 in Review: The Year Secrecy Jumped the Shark | Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2011 in Review: The Year Secrecy Jumped the Shark. As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2011 and discussing where we are in the fight for&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even more than the Cold War, the never-ending War on Terror seems to have turned our government into a house of secrets, where everything is classified, everything has to be kept under wraps because of &quot;national security,&quot; and any accountability for same is &#8230; also a tightly-held secret. It&#39;s hard to have a functioning democracy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/25\/too-many-secrets-marty.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Too many secrets, Marty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,17],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-homeland-security","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27195,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/secrecy-and-democracy-are-incompatible.html","url_meta":{"origin":24844,"position":0},"title":"Secrecy and Democracy are incompatible","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Mar-12 11:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I will grant the need for certain operational secrets, especially as those operations are going on. 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