Reply #70: I agree with you for the most part...

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... I am however of the opinion that if a public institution needs to have "secrets" there are some systemic problems with that public institution.

Most of us have been indoctrinated into believing that a certain level of secrecy is necessary. But the only justifications I have heard for governmental secrets usually revolve around projections by the people making a case for them. That's not good enough for me.

Having the capability to maintain secrets implies that supposedly government institutions are not accountable to their own citizens, and thus it violates the very definition of what "public institution" means.