The First Step To Regain Our Democracy Is To Dismantle Secrecy of Govt Action...

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John Dean hit the mark with his first book on this Bush Administration 'Worse Than Watergate' when he singled out this Administration's expansive use of 'secrecy' and abuse of classifying government information.

We cannot 'roll back the curtain' on the misdeeds and corruption of this Bush Administration if we allow them to use 'secrecy' to keep from the people and their Congress vital information about what they know and what they are doing 'in our name.'

Never could they have gotten away with creating secret prisons, abuse at Abu Graib, etc. if there had been disclosure to Congress and the people about what they were doing. Insert any of the other egregious conduct we are just now learning about, and secrecy was the weapon they wielded best to make it happen.

The constitutional crisis we are presently in rests squarely on what we the people have a right to know about our government and what it is doing. If we lose this battle, we can forget winning the war of restoring our democratic form of government --and the foundation for a de facto dictator or cabal in charge of our government will be set for generations to come.

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1. Example - Kissinger hints Bush has 'secret plan' to win Iraq war....

It's the other side of the coin from 'if you only knew what I knew' to 'I have a secret plan I cannot tell you about' but just trust me.

The secrecy is embedded in everything they do.