{"id":49962,"date":"2015-03-30T12:43:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T18:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/30\/on-records-public-and-state.html"},"modified":"2015-05-07T16:00:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T22:00:58","slug":"on-records-public-and-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/30\/on-records-public-and-state.html","title":{"rendered":"On Records, Public and State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The modern presumption that, where individual citizens are sovereign, the workings of government, including its paperwork, are to be transparently available to everyone is just that &#8212; quite modern. And it&#39;s still not settled, as records debates over the last half-century (the latest being Hilary Clinton&#39;s State emails) demonstrates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/03\/when-do-official-documents-belong-to-the-public\/388874\/?utm_source=SFG%2B'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/hJYu3XSP77dkxumBj-WuS76DRgV6x7ZhOyRLuT0TeoFFYLNhad7r4tbQhbDuwLq0QbiA1Whqt3nmnImdGalKjHZDpOK6wFI2wnq6H0TF9GWx1RAUvdenOtJHZdIlJKhcze6DRYv0K7m3-SMCcpnKk3_EFn1Jq5XO0G40slLI1ZZEeSw=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/03\/when-do-official-documents-belong-to-the-public\/388874\/?utm_source=SFG%2B'>When Do Official Documents Belong to the Public?<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nHillary Clinton is hardly the first government officer to try to keep her correspondence private. The fight over her emails echoes battles that stretch back to the inception of government archives.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/RF1YkRGCPfg'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The modern presumption that, where individual citizens are sovereign, the workings of government, including its paperwork, are to be transparently available to everyone is just that &#8212; quite modern. And it&#39;s still not settled, as records debates over the last half-century (the latest being Hilary Clinton&#39;s State emails) demonstrates. When Do Official Documents Belong to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/30\/on-records-public-and-state.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Records, Public and State&#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_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108,9,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history","category-politics-law","category-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133067,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/16\/yup-we-keep-setting-global-heat-records.html","url_meta":{"origin":49962,"position":0},"title":"Yup, we keep setting global heat records","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Mar-17 4:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"But let's not do anything about it, because it would cost money and be inconvenient and require more social welfare for jobs that are lost and maybe put us at less of a massive advantage economically over other countries. 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