Reply #141: *sigh*

[TorchTheWitch]

The first two, the Altheimers one and the down syndrome I don't consider a problem and don't see why others would (unless your neighbor is both stupid and blind he or she would know you had those condidtions).

So what? We can't tell from this article what information was detailed in the letters. Also, detailed information about what medications a person takes is hardly something that a neighbor can infer by observing a neighbor.

That leaves one letter. Assuming he gets 10 a day that is a very small error rate.

No, that leaves one letter that happened to be mentioned in this article. The only way to count up what such letters are deemed personal and were not put under seal is to actually count the ones that were never sealed. The examples cited in the article are EXAMPLES - they weren't cited as the only ones they had seen.

Did you actually read the article?

http://news.bostonherald.com/national/national.bg?artic...
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Dean sealed many of his government files for 10 years - including all his press releases and many speeches, keeping them private until 2013. Previous governors sealed records for six years.

"There are some that are left private... some of the kinds of things might be a letter from a constituent saying, 'Dear governor, I am an HIV, AIDS victim, can you please help me?' Now, those kinds of letters do not belong in the public, and they're not. That's why some records are sealed," Dean said on MSNBC Monday. But the documents obtained by the Herald appear to include the information Dean says he wants protected.

The documents include five security directives from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks - several are direct correspondence from NRC Chairman Richard A. Meserve to Dean. Most of the papers are marked "not for public disclosure" and threaten civil and criminal penalties.

Also readily available are letters written to and from Dean detailing personal struggles and medical conditions of his constituents.
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In case you missed the point, Dean claimed that the reason for sealing certain records was for the privacy of his constituants, and further claims that they aren't available to the public. Except that he sealed documents like press releases and speeches and left open to the public many items that he claimed was the reason for sealing certain documents, including some documents that were marked "not for public disclosure."