It is no surprise that those policing this closed debate should be politicians and the defenders of a disastrous series of invasions in the Middle East – for who would want to claim that the very policies they deployed or supported are the ones that even partly account for blowback terror?
He also noted that the "open" versus "closed" debate around data is often not based around economic variables, but rather this idea of not ambushing users.
Powerful MPs in Iran have called for a closed debate on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's apparent boycott of his official duties.
On The Business Pages this week, Tim Wu has a story about the open-versus-closed debate in the technology industry.
Linda Stein, a real-estate agent to the stars, sees the open-closed debate in sociological, almost taxonomic, terms.
By Nick Traverse February 18 , 2013On The Business Pages this week, Tim Wu has a story about the open-versus-closed debate in the technology industry.
Though sex dominated the closed-door debates over the conference document, the dozens of panels, briefings and luncheons here took up a range of equally important and sometimes bitterly contested issues.
On Friday, the full committee spent hours behind closed doors debating whether to agree to a settlement that would require the congressman, a Democrat, to admit to wrongdoing in exchange for receiving a reprimand and avoiding a public trial on his conduct.
This is fine when we're exploring, learning and having a discussion, but not when something's closed for debate.
One described the regulation as "a lawyers' charter," because it creates so much uncertainty, according to an official who witnessed the closed-door debate.
Senators from both parties are beginning to do just that as they begin closed-door debate on the details of a plan first suggested by Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader.
