Comments on: Obama administration presses for secrecy http://publicorgtheory.org/2009/06/09/obama-administration-presses-for-secrecy/ organizations in public life Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:04:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Week in Public Organizations, 15Jun2009 « PublicOrgTheory http://publicorgtheory.org/2009/06/09/obama-administration-presses-for-secrecy/#comment-785 Week in Public Organizations, 15Jun2009 « PublicOrgTheory Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:57:00 +0000 http://publicorgtheory.org/?p=867#comment-785 [...] culture change at GM Evidence-based medicine succeeds in Green Bay GOP investigates BoA, ML deal Obama administration presses for secrecy Terrorism labeled “auto-immune warfare” DNI, DCIA in turf squabble State to review [...] [...] culture change at GM Evidence-based medicine succeeds in Green Bay GOP investigates BoA, ML deal Obama administration presses for secrecy Terrorism labeled “auto-immune warfare” DNI, DCIA in turf squabble State to review [...]

]]> By: Michael E. Marotta http://publicorgtheory.org/2009/06/09/obama-administration-presses-for-secrecy/#comment-769 Michael E. Marotta Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:08:53 +0000 http://publicorgtheory.org/?p=867#comment-769 SETEC ASTRONOMY : TOO MANY SECRETS The reason that the documents and the Center should both be open is to reinforce the lesson that secrecy is impossible. Some of the enciphered transmissions of the German military from World War II remain unreveled because time has made them irrelevant. In time, the secrets of Guantanamo will become irrelevant. That time might be measured in units of "keynes." 1 Keynes = the long term within which we all will be dead. As long as we are alive, however, we must realize that we all share the front page of the New York Times. We all appear on CNN Headline News. Our allocated Fame might come as 60 shots 15 seconds long -- and with broadband, that's a lot of information. Those who expect secrecy are like medieval barons, walled in their castles, while the guys outside roll up the cannons. SETEC ASTRONOMY : TOO MANY SECRETS

The reason that the documents and the Center should both be open is to reinforce the lesson that secrecy is impossible.

Some of the enciphered transmissions of the German military from World War II remain unreveled because time has made them irrelevant. In time, the secrets of Guantanamo will become irrelevant. That time might be measured in units of “keynes.” 1 Keynes = the long term within which we all will be dead.

As long as we are alive, however, we must realize that we all share the front page of the New York Times. We all appear on CNN Headline News. Our allocated Fame might come as 60 shots 15 seconds long — and with broadband, that’s a lot of information.

Those who expect secrecy are like medieval barons, walled in their castles, while the guys outside roll up the cannons.

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