Inside the 1st Amendment: ; Secrecy: Dark Cloud Over Open Society

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"It would be a fair guess that if every page of every newspaper published in the United States on a given weekday were given over solely to reprinting the (secret) documents created that day, there would not be enough space."

Those are the words of Daniel Patrick Moynihan writing in "Secrecy," a landmark report by the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, which the late senator chaired.

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Inside the 1st Amendment: ; Secrecy: Dark Cloud Over Open Society

When the report was issued in 1997, secrecy in the federal government actually was in decline. How times and the two-way information compact between the government and the citizenry have changed.

So, too, has the massive amount o...

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