{"id":1317,"date":"2004-09-02T13:10:39","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T20:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/secret-society\/"},"modified":"2004-09-02T13:10:39","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T20:10:39","slug":"secret-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/secret-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Bush Secrecy Introduction\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bushsecrecy.org\/\">Bush Secrecy Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Secrecy and a free, democratic government don&#8217;t mix.&#8217; Harry S. Truman<\/p>\n<p>Harry Truman understood the importance of open government in a free society. George W. Bush does not.<\/p>\n<p>From the first days of his administration, President Bush has taken steps to tighten the government&#8217;s hold on information and limit public scrutiny of its activities. &#8230; Here, Public Citizen chronicles and documents the administration&#8217;s obsession with secrecy, as well as the steps we, and others, are taking to fight it. &#8230; In the long run, we don&#8217;t think Americans will put up with a government that operates on the principle of keeping them in ignorance. The more light we shine on these actions, the less likely they are to succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush Secrecy Introduction &#8216;Secrecy and a free, democratic government don&#8217;t mix.&#8217; Harry S. Truman Harry Truman understood the importance of open government in a free society. George W. Bush does not. From the first days of his administration, President Bush has taken steps to tighten the government&#8217;s hold on information and limit public scrutiny of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/secret-society\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Secret Society<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}