Information wants to be free

In a healthy society, information is like a gas, it moves from a point of concentration to a point of dilution. In a sick society, it is stagnant. We are knocking on that door.

See Steven Aftergood, of the Federation of American Scientists' remarks on the latest crack down on the sharing of Congressional Research Service Reports with other than pre-approved parties.

Look to this space for more links to resources to combat this gangrenous process.

A citizen who does not know and cannot discover, through an ordinary diligence, what the best minds think on a matter of public concern is sand bagged from exercising their vote in an intelligent manner. I guess what they want here is a bunch of mentally impaired yeah sayers. Not likely. Not likely at all. Not if I know my countrymen.


For given the cult of secrecy that enveloped our government during the cold war and the hording of information that always attends the lust for power, a free, unregulated and unpunished flow of leaks remains essential to the sophisticated reporting of diplomatic and military affairs, a safeguard in our democracy.". From the Washington Back Channel, the NYTimes Sunday Supplement, March 25, 2007, Max Frankel.

Come. All those still jealous of thine liberty. . .