Comment Re:Should there be ANY government secrets? (Score 1) 555
While I like the sound of "the government shouldn't keep secrets", I'd like to point out that some of the secrets the US government keeps include things such as "the launch codes for its nuclear arsenal". Surely you aren't saying that these secrets should in be public knowledge?
I suppose you might argue that the US government shouldn't maintain a nuclear stockpile in the first place, avoiding this problem altogether, but there are plenty of other "should obviously be secret" pieces of information -- like the precise details of all of the security in place at Fort Knox -- which have absolutely no business being public knowledge, and yet the government has a perfectly good reason to be dealing with.
I am not saying that the government shouldn't be more open than it is. There are a shit-ton of classified documents which are classified for no better reason than "it would be embarrassing if people knew this", and I am in no way defending the government for either making the embarrassing mistake or for keeping it secret. However, it's insane to make a blanket statement such as "the US government shouldn't be allowed to keep secrets AT ALL", because that implies that they can't even keep their passwords private.