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The Northerner

(5,040 posts)
Thu Mar 15, 2012, 04:17 PM Mar 2012

Sunshine Week revealing the secrecy of the war on journalism?



This week marks Sunshine Week. It is a national initiative to encourage interchange about the significance of an open government and freedom of information. It seems that Government secrecy has become wide spread and the Obama administration has expressed that any information released should be used with careful obligation to work in the spirit of cooperation. Under Obama's presidency more people have been charged for espionage than any other president. Lately transparency doesn't seem to apply. Scott Horton, contributing editor for Harper's Magazine, joins us for more.
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