@parados,
parados wrote:I suppose you think all pictures from our spy satellites should be released as well.
Well, I can see some possible arguments
qua respecting the
privacy of American citizens.
parados wrote:What about all the info about Dick Cheney's meetings with oil executives when he was VP.
That was the use of public property. Why was ]that withheld?
If records of them were made, then very possibly, thay shoud be revealed.
A counter-argument to that is that if a citizen knows that
whatever he tells a holder of public office will become public,
then information will be withheld from them, in the first place.
Laden was not in that decision-making situation at the end of his life.
He probably did
not request confidentiality, as he was being shot.
parados wrote:The government keeps secrets. Some for good reasons.
Some for bad reasons.Unless you completely support Wikileaks
and everything they have released you are being a hypocrite David.
Nothing that I have said is insincere,
but I do not allege that every possible scenario concerning privacy
has been fully analysed, as to the propriety of its release to the public.
Not everything need be decided today.
David