There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The American public has a right to know what's going on.
There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America.
There is not a country on earth whose people don't deserve to be free and safe.
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
Even in non-democratic countries, people have a legitimate interest in knowing about actions taken by the government.
We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.
Foreigners like me have no privacy rights whatsoever. Yet we keep using U.S.-based services all the time, making us a legal target for gathering and storing our private information. Other countries do surveillance as well. But nobody has the global visibility that United States does.
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents - a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs.
No one has the right to detract the attention of the nation from the defence of the country.