Ashley Simons
"Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix," President Harry Truman once said. Harry Truman understood the importance of an open government in a free society. Unfortunately, George W. Bush has a different outlook. From the first days of his administration, President Bush has taken steps to tighten the government's hold on information and limit public scrutiny of its activities. Expansive assertions of executive privilege, restrictive views of the Freedom of Information Act, increasing use of national security classification, stonewalling in response to congressional request for information – all these were evident even before the September 11 attacks (At Issue: Has the Bush administration misused government secrecy?). Since then the clamps on information have only tightened. The purpose of this paper is to examine some methods used by the government and to provide some explanations why the government is keeping the American public uninformed.
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Title: Government Secrecy
Approximate Word Count: 1355
Approximate Pages: 6 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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