Kill the Shield Bill:
The recent Wikileaks have revealed how human those in government are and how willing they are to classify just about anything as secret to keep voters from finding out. Geoffrey Stone, writing on the op-ed pages of today's New York Times, makes the argument for why we should not allow government to railroad us into allowing our legislators to pass a bill that could prevent the next Pentagon Papers from coming to light and arming voters with the evidence to cause their government to act responsibly, if only after a long delay.
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