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If it is not talking about the names of spies, contacts, or secret technology, with regard to national security from a credible threat, I do not think it should be kept secret.
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The link below is to the National Security Archive records of the Pentagon Papers case heard by the Supreme Court.
To sum it all up, the justices found that the right and need of the public to know what the goverment is doing overrides the governments right to keep secrets except in the most critical and dangerous situations. This is because what the goverment is keeping from its enemies, it is also keeping from its citizens, who, as part of a republic, are supposed to be part of the system which keeps the government honest.
Even in the middle of a war, the court set a narrow standard of what the goverment could keep secret from the public.
The more this administration moves to keep secrets, the more convinced I am that when the truth finally comes out, history will not be kind to this administration.
The Pentagon Papers - Secrets, Lies, and Audiotapes
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