Why Is That a Secret?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/opinion/why-is-that-a-secret.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=why%20is%20that%20a%20secrect&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:22 AM
Subject: re: Why Is That a Secret?
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

   In any form of government, the sovereign needs to know what is going on.  A monarch can play his cards close to his chest or share them with a privy council, but for a democracy to work, the People need to know the issues and the outcomes.  Tactically, there will always be exceptions (e.g. troop movements) that have to be secret for a time. But a government that reflexively hides matters from the People is a government that is undercutting democracy.

Barry Haskell Levine