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Thursday, September 11, 2008 - Posts

Coming to a theater near you: "Secrecy"

Check out a new documentary about national security and secrecy that's gotten some good reviews, starting this month in selected cities. "Secrecy," by Peter Galison and Robb Moss, apparently covers how secrecy saves lives in some ways, but also corrupts

Publicly funded Smithsonian wants to keep working in secret

The Smithsonian Institution is opposed to an effort by Congress to make it subject to federal FOIA, saying that transparency might inhibit private fund-raising. In an Associated Press story, chief executive G. Wayne Clough argues that the institution,