Any unveiling is also veiling. No matter how transparent our governments want to be, governments will be selectively transparent.
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I believe good governments have nothing to hide. We want to ensure we maintain confidence in our public institutions.
Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.
I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.
We need to keep pressure on our own governments to force more and more transparency.
Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.
The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.
I believe in transparency.
If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.
If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.