06-08-2017, 11:39 PM
(06-08-2017, 01:15 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I'm not sure why the important questions have to be kept secret. Doesn't the public need to know what's been going on?
1. Prejudice against persons who might be subject to prosecution. The FBI and federal prosecutors are extremely secretive about their investigations. Even their apparent lapses are often ruses ('tickling the wire') to trip up potential defendants who might try to make preparations for flight or destroy evidence.
2. Names or agents or targets in espionage or counter-espionage operations are typically kept hidden. The typical declassified information has names redacted for the protection of agents.
I expect the FBI and CIA to do their jobs and do them well. These, the military, and the judiciary may be the last parts of the federal government to not be transformed into sick jokes under Donald Judas Trump.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.