Does Mrs. Jones have a bag of cash for the nice Representative?
Is she representing a large corporation or other organization whose actions affect the public interest?
Then, yes, it should absolutely be public.
Regardless of multiple, complex scenarios.
In fact, the more complex, the more it should be on the record and auditable.
I'm surprised I have to explain this.
When you try to imagine scenarios that should not be on the record, it is difficult to come up with any, aside from those mentioned in my prior post having to do strictly with personnel matters, dangerous technology, and very limited military objectives, all of which are overseen and must be recorded and justified.
It is beyond me that some individuals are not only happy to be unaware of what gets done in their name and with their tax dollars and our lives, they are openly hostile to others who actually take the time to find out.
Many of that ilk refuse to read links that might upset their worldview. That's kind of like getting the morning paper and throwing it away before reading it.
Amazing.
This may upset your worldview:
gwu.edu
read starting at the top of page 9:
"The terror campaign ..."
describing a campaign which starts with the US Joint Chiefs of Staff overseeing what they admit to being an all-out terrorism campaign against .... the US population.
Why? To get public panic for a war with Cuba.
How? Disinformation by radio, killing Cubans, killing Americans, remote-controlled passenger airliners, you know, the usual stuff.
You claim I am using sophistry in describing these things? I'm trying to let them describe themselves, and you can come to your own conclusions. Tell me what you think.
Now, do you still think secrecy is worth it? Here we have a military plan under elected political managers that have allowed this to remain secret.
Either the military is hiding such plans from the President and Congress, or some in the administration were aware or even complicit. Either way, we're looking at some drastic implications for allowing secrecy in government. These guys are willing to run amok in some deviant form of so-called "patriotism", which is clearly treason when exposed to the light of day.
My conclusion: Full Disclosure is the only way to prevent this kind of treason then, and now. No excuses, anymore. |
