Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population.
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I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
It's a genuine dilemma for governments, deciding how much information to share in this threat-filled era.
In order to win the war on terrorism, we have to win the war of information. Information is so very, very valuable. This is an important tool in gathering up information.
You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
To identify the enemy is to free the mind.
Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.
We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.