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On the recordJanuary 21, 2009
My experience is that over and over and over again we've seen official secrecy used not for national security purposes but to mislead the public and to frame or more particularly mis-frame an outside political debate.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse emphasizes misuse of secrecy in political contexts.

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