Source: The American Conservative
by James W Carden
“‘Secrecy,’ wrote the late great senator from New York, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, ‘is for losers.’ In his first week in office, Donald Trump ignited a public debate over the merits of government secrecy when he signed an executive order stating that he, the president, has determined that the veil of secrecy surrounding documents relating to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘is not consistent with the public interest and the release of these records is long overdue.’ … There are other issues at stake besides the question of ‘whodunit?’ Washington’s addiction to secrecy beginning in the early years of the Cold War has, as Moynihan wisely pointed out, bred suspicion of the government by its citizens.” (02/14/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-breaks-washingtons-secrecy-addiction/