Pretty hilarious. To cite mearly two examples of the extreme fetish they have for secrecy. For the first time in US history, 200 plus years, the Cheney led energy hearings were closed to the public no one was allowed to attend except the speakers and no notes were kept of what was said. Only 12 years ago Republicans blistered Ms. Clinton for secret hearings, even though those were not even hearings of the US government and not paid for by it.

The federal government has take actions such as reclassifying wide ranges of mateirals previously open to the public. In some cases this approaches high comedy. For instace they have demanded the Naitional Archives classify materials from the fifties and a wide range of material published in journals over the years (meaning of course that any removal of the material from the archives is totally useless).

Not since Nixon has any administration remotely approached the extreme secrecy and rejection of the public right to know even how its domestic polciies are being carried out as this one.