Catch-22 in the 21st Century

This story is just plain sick on so many levels it’s hard to know where to begin.  Classifying information for “national security” purposes is one thing.  I think many people would even agree that it is necessary to keep the public in the dark on some matters (although as a proponent of open government, I would not be one of them).  But classifying random information just for the sake of classifying random information is so freaking Orwellian, it’s not funny.  And it’s definitely NOT a game.  Maybe the government thinks it is, but for many freedom-loving Americans, the stakes are all too real.

Every time I read a story like this, I am astonished at the levels to which our public servants, whose salaries we pay and who are ultimately answerable to us, will stoop to prevent us from finding out what damage they are doing to our nation.  If we’re lucky, the 2008 election might bring about some changes in that respect, but I’m not holding my breath for a mass declassification of documents.  The Democrats have as much to lose from full disclosure as the Republicans—both parties pretty much gave the war machine a free pass on this.  I fear that Guantanamo Bay will become another sad example of truths that the American populace will never know.

Posted by cdamian on Jan 8, 2008 at 6:37 PM

By the way, does anybody know how to change the little flag in the lower left corner of the comments?  Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch, aber ich bin Amerikaner.  (My apologies to any speakers of that great precursor to the English language.  I’m sure I butchered that sentence pretty badly.)

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