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The True Story of Area 51's UFOs

Keith Thomson | Posted 11.06.2009 | Technology

Read More: Secrecy, Area 51, Unlv, Cia, Ufos, Airplanes, Spying, Extraterrestrials, Cold War, Spies, Air Force, Top-Secret, Flying-Saucers, Technology News
Keith Thomson

Area 51 is heard in the same breath as Roswell, Amityville and Loch Ness. But now, with the CIA's declassification of aircraft testing there, we can finally know the truth.

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Steve Jobs and the Dividends of Secrecy

Eric Dezenhall | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Secrecy, Steve Jobs, Crisis Management, Apple, Business News
Eric Dezenhall

In an age where you can log onto your laptop and, within minutes, zoom in on the front door of a stranger's house, our culture suffers the collective delusion that it has the "right" to know everything about everybody.

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Secrets and the White House

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Secrecy, Obama White House, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, CREW Lawsuit, Epa, Politics News
Christopher Brauchli

Those with long memories will recall the endless fights over the White House Logs during the eight years of the Bush presidency.

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Secrecy Sacrificing National Security

Shahid Buttar | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Secrecy, Civil Liberties, First Amendment, Government Secrecy, Warrantless Surveillance, Rule of Law, Surveillance, Fbi, Democracy, Racial Profiling, Torture, FBI Surveillance, Nsa, Guantanamo Detainees, Michael Mukasey, Dianne Feinstein, Guantanamo, Cointelpro, Abu Ghraib, American Muslims, Guantanamo Bay, Fisa, Constitution, China, Terrorist Surveillance Program, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Our nation's most notorious criminals violate our most fundamental laws and remain not only free, but actively engaged in influencing our national security policies.

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Obama Launches Review Of Secrecy Policy

Washington Post | Carrie Johnson | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Secrecy, Obama Adninistration, National Security Adviser, Barack Obama, Politics News

President Obama this afternoon directed his national security adviser and senior Cabinet officials to examine whether the government keeps too much in...

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Secrecy and Democracy

Bob Franken | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Secrecy, President Obama, Politics News
Bob Franken

Consider one of the Franken Rules of Life: "There is nothing good that someone won't corrupt." Today we talk about secrecy. Obviously there are man...

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Secrecy in the Courts: How to Get Judges, Lawyers and Sharon Stone to Follow the Rules?

Peter Scheer | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Secrecy, Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Government Secrecy, Celebrity Gossip, Sharon Stone, Courts, Lawsuit, Politics News
Peter Scheer

California has long had judicial openness rules that are exemplary -- on paper. The time has come to insist that they be followed.

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The CIA Won't Put Its Declassified Documents Online

Mother Jones | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Secrecy, Cia, Declassified Documents, National Archives, Politics News

In a quiet, fluorescently lit room in the National Archives' auxiliary campus in suburban College Park, Maryland, 10 miles outside of Washington, are ...

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Bush's 11th-Hour Bid for Secrecy

Stanley Kutler | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Executive Order 13233, Secrecy, Barack Obama, Richard Cheney, George W. Bush, Politics News
Stanley Kutler

The order is beyond audacious -- incumbent presidents decide and judge the nature of national security, not former presidents.

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What Barack Obama Should Learn From Dick Cheney

Steve Clemons | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: New America Foundation, Barton Gellman, Colin Powell, George W. Bush, Obama Way, Ryan Lizza, David Addington, David Plouffe, Barack Obama, Secrecy, Austan Goolsbee, Robert Gates, Condoleezza Rice, John Edwards, Jimmy Carter, National Security Bureaucracy, Hillary Clinton, Bill Casey, Scooter Libby, Richard Cheney, Obama-Ism, Angler, Autism, Cheneyism, Cheney, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Obama should look to Cheney to understand how a pro -- even one who so damaged the interests of the nation -- managed power and purpose in government.

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Bush Does a 9/11 Replay in Asking for Unprecedented Powers and Unprecedented Budget

Steve Clemons | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Secrecy, Coalition Provisional Authority, Political Norms, Infrastructure, Bailout, Economic Crisis, Halliburton, George W. Bush, Tax Cuts, 9/11, Politics News
Steve Clemons

What is shocking about the presentation by Bush -- and the deal that is unfolding is that we don't see any acceptance of responsibility for the failure of his team's stewardship of the economy.

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Sarah Palin's Inbox Reveals Possible Troopergate Smoking Guns

Erik Ose | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Troopergate, Civil Liberties, Sarah Palin Vp Pick, Mccain, Sarah Palin Vice President, General Election, Presidential Campaign, Yahoo, Politics News, McCain VP Shortlist, 2008, McCain Vice President, Obama 2008, E-Mail, Palin Inner Circle, Mike Wooten, Technology, Sarah Palin Reaction, Mccain Vice President Palin, Wasilla, Vice President, John McCain, Sarah Palin Vp, Palin E-Mail Hacked, Walt Monegan, McCain VP, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin Mccain Vp, Secrecy, Barack Obama 2008, Internet Privacy, Mccain Palin Ticket, Sarah Palin Running Mate, Sunshine Laws, Sarah Palin, Palin Vp Choice, Alaska, Veepstakes, Hackers, Politics News
Erik Ose

Why the secrecy? Why try so hard to cover up your e-mail trail? What exactly is Gov. Palin trying to hide?

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Subsidizing Corporate Crime and Rewarding Constitutional Abuses

Shahid Buttar | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Journalists, Secrecy, Transparency, Corporate Welfare, Municipal Wireless, First Amendment, National Security, Rule of Law, Oversight, Fisa, Surveillance, Watergate, Executive Power, Privacy, Domestic Spying, NSA's Terrorist Surveillance Program, Bear Stearns, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Controversial government programs are theoretically restrained by checks and balances, but neither Congress nor the courts have a way to check a secret program.

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Sundance Saturday: Screenings, Soirees, and Lots of Sir Ben Kingsley

Michelle Kung | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sundance 2008, Brad Anderson, The Wackness, Ben Kingsley, Sundance Film Festival, Emily Mortimer, Secrecy, Amy Redford, The Guitar, Mary-Kate Olsen Ben Kingsley, Janeane Garofalo, Woody Harrelson, Robert Redford, Transsiberian, Entertainment News
Michelle Kung

Directed by Amy Redford - daughter of Sundance founder Robert - the film also features a menage a trois, which the large man sitting behind me loudly whispered was the best part of the movie.

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Costs Soar For Bush Administration's Secret Document Shredding

Radar | John Cook | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Secrecy, Radar, Dick Cheney Secrecy, Bush Administration, George W. Bush, White House Documents, Document Shredding, Cheney Secrecy Hunting, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Behold, the Bush Administration in chart form: Federal spending on paper shredding has increased more than 600 percent since George W. Bush took offic...

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