http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18977033/
No one incident is that alarming... but for the love of all that is decent, this just happens way too much with this administration. Why are these guys so obsessed with secrecy?
Any answers that pop into our heads... well, they can just blame themselves for being so goddam secretive.
That sums it up.

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Keeping Cheney's visitor logs secret? Please. These guys take "secrecy" and "national security" to unheard of levels. But irrational paranoia is the calling card of the soon to be nearly extinct neo-con.

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I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.

I get one of two pictures:

1. They're doing something they should not be doing on a regular basis and thus have a lot to hide...

or

2. They really like playing spy. Cheney hides under his desk and aims his fingers at you like a gun if you walk into his office, screaming "BANG BANG!"

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You have to love the argument that letting the public know who the visitors are will interfere with the White House's ability get "candid advice." I'd like to know how that logic works. Someone will refuse to say something important at a private meeting because their name is in the guestbook?

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Man up.

People are always more truthful when they know that their words cannot possibly be held under scrutiny.

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That information is classified and to be given only on a need-to-know basis...

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I can believe that. But the gun is real.

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I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.

I understand that argument. But it is properly applied to the transcript of the meeting itself, not the list of attendees.

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Man up.

I should have added the . I was being sarcastic...
Like I believe people are more likely to be truthful without fear of scrutiny... only on issues of feeling and popularity.
For sound advice, verifiability is necessary. Of course this administration indulges in ideological groupthink... so I'd expect them to want to hear things that are under the public radar completely.

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That information is classified and to be given only on a need-to-know basis...

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