Submitted by B. Angel, Aug 21, 2007 15:17

CIA director Michael Hayden's quoted remark to withhold known and not secret (dangerour to national defense) information is symptomatic of what is damaging American democracy. When information "flows", it does not shock. Governments tend to cozy their information, as an act of self-protection. Congress is responsible for opening government to keep it from degrading into an authoritarian oligarchy. Or is it, now?

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