Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“Secrecy and lying are two sides of the same political coin. The Supreme Court declared in 1936, ‘An informed public is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment.’ Thus, conniving politicians have no choice but to drop an Iron Curtain around Washington. Politicians guarantee that Americans are left clueless on the most controversial or dangerous federal policies. The government is creating trillions of pages of new secrets every year. The total is equivalent to ’20 million four-drawer filing cabinets filled with double-spaced text on paper,’ according to The Washington Post. If those cabinets were laid end to end, they would stretch almost to the moon. The feds have accumulated the equivalent of hundreds of pages of secrets for each American, blighting any hope for citizens to learn of their rulers’ rascality.” (12/02/24)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2024/12/02/secrecy-and-the-divine-right-to-deceive/