Secrecy in Shreds

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/magazine/mag-03lede-t.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=keller&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:28 PM
Subject: re: Secrecy in Shreds
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

   Some government actions are necessarily tactical secrets. In the case e.g. of troop movements, they should be automatically opened to the public at the end of hostilities. Other government actions are crimes. They should be thrown open to the sanitizing effect of daylight without delay when discovered. Anyone of even average intelligence can tell the two apart easily.  If Mr. Keller proposes to treat the two cases the same, perhaps it is not because he cannot tell the difference, but because he hopes to hide his own guilt in sending the American public to the polls in 2004 while he suppressed the story of warrantless wiretapping of citizens.

Barry Haskell Levine