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On the recordDecember 6, 2016
If the present report is to serve any large purpose, it is to introduce the public to the thought that secrecy is a mode of regulation. In truth, it is the ultimate mode for the citizen does not even know that he or she is being regulated.
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Patrick Moynihan
Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Moynihan emphasized the regulatory nature of government secrecy.

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