Reply #5: You said we're all guilty, regardless of how we voted or any other political action we took.

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Or, did I misread you on that?

As for secrecy, I agree, it's what makes this sort of thing possible. It removes the judgment of the executive from the normal political process. The result of such flawed decision-making is catastrophic. The secret decision to torture weakened the United States - the abuse and overuse of the classification process is a threat to the national security, and in those instances it's the responsibility of the military and the intelligence services to resist unlawful orders. That was a dereliction of duty at CIA and in the military, and the responsible officers should be held publicly accountable along with those who issued illegal orders.

We'd be a far safer (and more just) country if we simply made it illegal to classify policy documents.