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Originally Posted by knox
Makes no sense. Governments use "secrets" and control information to be able to commit atrocities. I know people like to overuse the Hitler example, as if genocide and abuse weren't happening right now.
As for governments being "entitled" to have secrets, really? Aren't we the ones to vote for them, aren't we supposed to know what they really do?
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It makes perfect sense. When the U.S. was founded, we chose representative democracy as our form of government, not pure democracy. There's a reason, for example, why every law, issue and budget item is not decided by referendum.
Of course, governments need to be accountable to the people. But we live in an insecure world, and a big part of a government's role is to protect its people from foreign aggression. A government can't do that if every move it makes is revealed to the public. Secrecy may not sound pleasant, but it's necessary.