Two news items:

1) This New York Times piece on the Bush administration’s increasingly secretive methods of governance.

2) This quote from a brief filed by federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, on the Cooper-Miller case:

“Journalists are not entitled to promise confidentiality — no one in America is.”

Lesson drawn from the two: No one in America is permitted to keep secrets. Except for the government, which can keep secret whatever it damned well pleases.

Makes me feel all warm and America-y inside.

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