Steven Aftergood Secrecy Quotations

Secrecy has become a growth industry. It makes it harder for ordinary citizens ... to ask questions ... and to hold officials accountable.

Secrecy seems to be the default here. It appears the judge wants to discourage media coverage.

As a society we seem to be losing our ability to rationally debate complicated policy decisions. Secrecy aggravates the problem by excluding people from the debate, or by narrowing their frames of reference. Nothing less than the future of American democracy is at stake.

This administration has embraced secrecy as a right.

It results in unnecessary secrecy that leaves citizens in the dark.