As a society we seem to be losing our ability to rationally debate complicated policy decisions. Secrecy aggravates the problem by excluding people from the debate, or by narrowing their frames of reference. Nothing less than the future of American democracy is at stake. - Steven Aftergood Quotes
As a society we seem to be losing our ability to rationally debate complicated policy decisions. Secrecy aggravates the problem by excluding people from the debate, or by narrowing their frames of reference. Nothing less than the future of American democracy is at stake. Steven Aftergood
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FOIA is one of the most vital tools we have left, and it's urgent that it be protected. It's under stress in this climate, but it's not broken. - Steven Aftergood Quotes

FOIA is one of the most vital tools we have left, and it's urgent that it be protected. It's under stress in this climate, but it's not broken.

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FOIA is one of the most vital tools we have left, and it's urgent that it be protected. It's under stress in this climate, but it's not broken. - Steven Aftergood Quotes

FOIA is one of the most vital tools we have left, and it's urgent that it be protected. It's under stress in this climate, but it's not broken.

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FOIA is one of the most vital tools we have left and it's urgent that it be protected. It's under stress in this climate, but it's not broken. - Steven Aftergood Quotes

FOIA is one of the most vital tools we have left and it's urgent that it be protected. It's under stress in this climate, but it's not broken.

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The development of this type of data-mining technology has serious implications for the future of personal privacy. - Steven Aftergood Quotes

The development of this type of data-mining technology has serious implications for the future of personal privacy.

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It results in unnecessary secrecy that leaves citizens in the dark. - Steven Aftergood Quotes

It results in unnecessary secrecy that leaves citizens in the dark.

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I think it's driven by the individual agencies, which have bureaucratic sensitivities to protect. But it was clearly encouraged by the administration's overall embrace of secrecy. - Steven Aftergood Quotes

I think it's driven by the individual agencies, which have bureaucratic sensitivities to protect. But it was clearly encouraged by the administration's overall embrace of secrecy.

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If receiving and passing on national defense information is a crime, we're going to have to build a lot more jails. To make a crime of the kind of conversations Rosen and Weissman had with Franklin over lunch would not be surprising in the People's Republic of China. But it's utterly foreign to the American political system. - Steven Aftergood Quotes

If receiving and passing on national defense information is a crime, we're going to have to build a lot more jails. To make a crime of the kind of conversations Rosen and Weissman had with Franklin over lunch would not be surprising in the People's Republic of China. But it's utterly foreign to the American political system.

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No one is suggesting the NSA is monitoring Hillary Clinton. - Steven Aftergood Quotes

No one is suggesting the NSA is monitoring Hillary Clinton.

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It's perfectly understandable the press office would be frustrated by leaks. But they are the ones with the documents, they are the ones who need to exercise discipline. You can't ask the press not to report what they learn. - Steven Aftergood Quotes

It's perfectly understandable the press office would be frustrated by leaks. But they are the ones with the documents, they are the ones who need to exercise discipline. You can't ask the press not to report what they learn.

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I don't think anybody welcomed that proposal. It wouldn't serve the interests of those who benefit from the status quo. - Steven Aftergood Quotes

I don't think anybody welcomed that proposal. It wouldn't serve the interests of those who benefit from the status quo.

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