We have nothing to fear but FOIA itself

[Aimless]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...m_source=atlfb

Congressional culture of secrecy is mutating into a highly contagious and possibly weaponized virus.

Sinister, dumb... or both?

[LittleFuzzy]

The writer got it exactly right, "Those in power dislike the public nosing around in their business and are forever looking to shield themselves from scrutiny."

It's normal. It's necessary to an extent. It's dumb. It's sinister. It's both productive and counterproductive.

In the total-information age, the public doesn't deal well with actually having all that information. They get stuck on things which they don't understand and they endlessly complain about things which are actually necessary to get the things they do genuinely want to see done. And so those who are in charge of doing it try to insulate themselves from that by just hiding it all. This also enables all kinds of things which the public genuinely doesn't want to see done.

Because this is supposed to be a democracy, though, I expect the bureaucrats and the elected representatives to suck it up and get on with their jobs for however long they can keep them, and not pull this crap.