Secrecy—a Death Blow to Oversight--a Cover for Incompetence
The current administration has used and abused national security and the secrecy inherent in that catchall phrase to shape American policy (foreign and domestic) without the permission of Americans.
It’s no small thing. Not a momentary accommodation to security nor an acceptable palliative in stressful times. The combination of stamping documents SECRET and attaching signing statements to legislation has all but removed Congressional oversight.
Worse than that, it has increasingly mired the electorate in misinformation campaigns they have no logical standards within which to judge. The answer to every question or complaint, every withheld document, every closed meeting and every reduction of Constitutional guarantees is national security.
There is no way to judge the incompetence of the administration, absent an understanding of what has been decided and The Decider operates in secret. Thus we are left to make our own judgments merely on the basis of actual results and they are, thus far…