Reply #42: Government Secrecy, and the prosecution of Whistle Blowers...

[bvar22]

...is the enemy of democracy.



"Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the
nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure
and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves.
They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the
corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its
rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the
safest depository of the ultimate powers of government"
-- Thomas Jefferson



"An informed citizenry is the only true repository of
the public will."
-- Thomas Jefferson


"Free and responsible government by popular consent just can't
exist without an informed public."
-- Bill Moyers


God forbid that the American People should find out what is being done in their name.