We need to know We need to know things, so we can feel safe. And we trust the government if they gonna keep on keeping secrets. If they don't tell us the truth, than the United States is a fake country to all the citizens and to the world. People need to know the truth. Report Post

It's not right As the government we have here in America it's supposed to be a government for the people and by the people so if it's by the people the people deserve to know. The people have the right to know what the government is doing, whether it is hard to understand or hard to take it all in, the people need to know what it is doing! They need to know what the government is doing so if they disagree with it they can change the people in charge. But military circumstances are different. Report Post

No they should not We as the people should have the right to know what is going on with our country. If we can't trust the government then is everything a lie? What if we are at stake from nuclear war? We should be able to know inorder to do something to protect ourselves and feel safe. Like the Cuban missile crisis. Kennedy did not tell the people we were close to nuclear war. How are we supposed to be prepared? The government should not keep secrets Report Post

Keeping secrets doesn't protect people, it divides them. The government dislikes it when the people hold secrets from it, so why should they be hypocritical and do the same thing? The line will be drawn between the two groups, the ones who believe the government is doing what's best, and the ones who lose faith in their government, thus leading to losing faith in their country. Its true that some people can't handle the truth, but those people don't have to know it. Like everything else in the world, it should be up to the individual person whether they would like to know the truth about the world in which they live in. This way, if the government is open and honest then the people won't have any reason to create conspiracy theories. As long as there are secrets, the country will never be able to become a whole. Report Post

Educate the uninformed I agree and understand that people are not able to comprehend the intensity of some of the information being withheld from the general public and in all honesty most would likely choose to over look the information because it would be too much for them that they would simply ignore it.

However thats all because we have been taught to do so, we have been taught to look the other way and not to ask questions.

If we were raised to understand the issues that this world faces it wouldnt come as such a shock.

Either way it should be up to the individual to decide whether they want to embrace the information or not.

Rather than having a minority dealing with the worlds problems and keeping it from the majority, would it not make sense for the majority to work together and keep it from the minority who chooses to keep their heads in the sand.

If individuals had the opportunity to participate in government funded classes to slowly reveal classified information as they learn to cope with it, would be a good start and could only be beneficial for all of us to have more outlooks and ideas. Report Post

Hidden truth causes obvious ignorance The government keeping secrets only shows how low it's expectations are of its citizens. Not only does it undermine the overall maturity of how citizens will react to new information, it also forces the citizens into a belittled mind state. We the people are what make this nation and its government; so we the people also have the right to be aware of all government activity. There is no justification for these secrets. Not only do government secrets make the people of this nation feel below the government it also makes the other nations of the world feel more defensive against us. We, as well as the rest of the world, already know that the US is accepted as the strongest nation in the world but the greed and insecurity of our government makes us seem weak. We need to realize that we all live in this world together as neighbors. There should be no reason we are fighting one another anymore; we are moving into the age of a global economy..It time we come to a global consensus Posted by: ThatGuyKMack Report Post

No. As our employees they should not keep secrets from us or violate our right to privacy. This should especially be true for our employees who we vote to represent us in office.

No secrets, no spying, no taking away our privacy or taking away our rights. Why is it that the constitution which is the foundation of our rights is so easily ignored? Why don't they teach the constitution in school anymore? The right to privacy, the right to free speech, the right to bare arms and protect ourselves from those that take away our rights.



We are Americans and should hold our government accountable for upholding the constitutional rights that our forefathers died to protect and put in place for us. Report Post

Certainly never in a multiverse It's a free country, not an authoritarian regime like North Korea. Knowledge should be available to the public at all time no matter what. It will actual benefit the country and knowledge and freedom makes a country prosper no matter what. The government is corrupt when it wants to hide secrets. Report Post

No. A nation that keeps secrets and prosecutes whistleblowers is a nation that is devastatingly corrupt and has an agenda different from the one being conveyed to their people. We shouldn't be living in a world were secrets are kept for our own good. We shouldn't have governments that support the interests of big corporations. Report Post