Haven't Quite Decided About All This Secrecy Stuff

I haven't expressed much of an opinion yet about the secrecy debate. I think the current debate doesn't get into the complications of secrecy. There are all kinds of secrets. Some are good to keep. Some are bad to keep.

In general, however, I support Manning, Snowden, Assange, and the Anonymous others. Our secrecy state is simply too big. The only hard secrets should be those directly-related to the operation of nuclear weaponry. The rest of the secrets are fungible and should expire over time. They don't. And that's the problem.

We don't even understand our own history, given the density of secrets. The CIA, which should function as a sort of newspaper-reading graduate school for political authorities, is off doing God knows what. Heck, we are only now beginning to fully understand what Watergate was all about. We definitely will repeat history, over and over again, if we don't even know what it is. We don't understand it - we can't understand it - clouded as it is in events that supposedly *didn't happen*.

Call me Anonymous: