His principal mission, he said, is to insure open access to the Nixon material at a time when, he believes, secrecy has become an executive-branch fetish.
There are times when secrecy is vital to an investigation, but too often secrecy orders are unnecessarily used, or are needlessly indefinite and prevent us from telling customers of intrusions even after investigations are long over".
Some members of Parliament raised concerns about the precedent that any such agreement might set at a time when Switzerland's banking secrecy is also under attack from the European Union — of which the country is not a member.
He spent most of his long career in the Far East, reporting on stories as hazardous and as difficult as the Vietnam war and the state of China, at a time when that country was shrouded in secrecy.
It's a signal perhaps of how far ahead Canada has moved on gay rights that Northstar came out as gay two decades ago, in 1992, at a time when in the United States, and much of the Americas, secrecy, intolerance and stigma marked gay life, and the notion of legal same-sex marriage seemed impossibly far-fetched.
And pressure for transparency may rise after revelations that many members of parliament are paid on the side by big German companies.German bureaucracy is still culturally wedded to official secrecy, going back to a time when officials were accountable only to the sovereign and nobody thought government agencies really worked for citizens.
The Swiss government has repeatedly said that failure to get parliamentary backing for the deal would damage UBS and possibly other Swiss banks at a time when the country is under international attack over its bank secrecy laws.
Adoption records were sealed state by state starting in the 1940s during a time when single pregnancy and infertility were shrouded in shame and secrecy.
He flourishes at a time when powerful men are perfectly groomed and dressed — and cloaked in secrecy.
The offensive was prepared with skill and secrecy and was launched on December 16 , 1944 at a time when mist and rain would minimize the effectiveness of counteraction from the air.
